Sentence examples for collapsed car from inspiring English sources

BEIRUT, Lebanon Lebanonon may seem an unlikely holiday spot: the government has collapsed, car bombs go off periodically and foreign envoys warn of an impending civil war.

The prospect of a collapsed car industry was so terrifying that a church in Detroit placed three hybrid SUVs on its altar and prayed for divine intervention.Politicians, though, make unlikely deities.

The Phoenix Four, the controversial former owners of collapsed car company MG Rover, devised a scheme to pay themselves a windfall totalling £75m from a dowry provided by BMW, according to a government report published this morning.

Before the talks collapsed, cars were waiting to pick up the participants and take them to the Vatican's offices in Washington for another meeting, said Richard McGrath, the senator's spokesman.

And an entertainer from Tring throwing custard pies from the window of his collapsing car.

Michigan, for instance, was in trouble even before the recession, but a collapsing car industry and dwindling sales- and income-tax receipts have made its situation much worse.

And up on 11, Tiger drives down the fairway in a collapsing car, hitting a godawful metal from the tee into a bunker down the left, then finding a greenside bunker, then whistling his escape straight through the green and into water.

Buildings collapsing, cars dancing in the streets.

Formerly monolithic, vertically-integrated systems designed to shift bulk commodities (and car-less people), they have seen their share of traffic drop by half since 1990, as heavy industry collapsed and car ownership increased.

Along the way was a pachinko parlor with its front collapsed; a car dealership with windows shattered, insulation exposed; and a gas station that had been cleaned up but then taken over by crows.

This year, gross car sales reached nearly $109 million, a 17 percent increase over last year and a tie for the record set in 2007, before the economy collapsed and car collectors kept their most prized possessions in the garage, knowing it was not a good time to sell.