Accountants have previously estimated that creditors would get just 1.23p for every pound if BHS collapsed, meaning landlords, clothing suppliers and staff could lose millions of pounds.
An initial $1.2 billion deal to acquire the entire company collapsed, meaning that Opera's other business units — its Mediaworks ad business, apps and games unit and Opera TV business — are not part of the final acquisition and remain independent.
Shanghai Automotive walk away MG Rover collapses, meaning 5,000 workers and another 15,000 in the supply chain face redundancy.
Government collapses, meaning that the subway system is finally put out of its misery.
The bank, at that moment, was on the verge of collapse, meaning her husband would lose his investment, then worth about $200,000, if the federal government did not intervene, the ethics documents say.
Meaning collapsed with the towers.
For Sartre, the collapse of meaning produced what he called nausea — a feeling not unlike the one that followed me after I saw Emmy falling down those stairs.
What's going on in them is wildly different in scale and in kind, for one thing — accident, outrage, atrocity — and even picturing them alongside one another is a kind of devastation, a collapse of meaning.
Social housing has all but collapsed in the last five years, meaning that thousands of families are living in overcrowded and inadequate housing without any real prospect of improvement in their situation, never mind affording a home of their own.
Personal incomes have collapsed since the recession, meaning households – many still struggling with heavy debt – can't afford the sudden rise in house prices and are not applying for mortgages any more.
Like the minimalists, but with a vision hospitable to all manner of meaning, Warhol collapsed the contemplation of art into the self-conscious experience of existing, moment to moment, in a world where Rembrandts, say, and skyscrapers are just different objects of interest and distraction.
