Sentence examples for collapsed much from inspiring English sources

Large-scale industries and infrastructure collapsed, much to the disgust of Soviet guest engineers.

From Dara'a, near the Jordanian border, to Homs, Damascus and here in Syria's commercial capital — the fighting has essentially collapsed much of the civilian state.

Even the Reagan White House, where Mr Pipes was an adviser, was not immune to wobbles and muddles, acutely described in this wonderful book.When Soviet power collapsed, much as he had predicted, thanks to its inability to keep up with American military might, Mr Pipes was proved triumphantly right.

The economically challenged USSR might have collapsed much sooner.

First, that the market for the GM product in question collapsed much faster than anyone expected it would at the time of Obama's speech.

However, in their annual summit in 1992, the organization failed to address and solve the many new problems that had arisen since the Soviet Union collapsed, much less the Karabakh conflict.

A big German bank was about to collapse, much the way Lehman Brothers had only days before.

UNLESS January was a strangely synchronised blip, trade is collapsing much more rapidly than people had realised before (see our Leader).

The United States has set a deadline of Oct. 31 for a deal, but the talks could collapse, much as they did in Iraq, where the failure to agree on an immunity deal hastened the withdrawal of all American troops.

The bomb near the United Nations building exploded about 10 minutes later on narrow Émile Payen Street, collapsing much of the white multistory building and hurling chunks of rubble across the street.

This sum collapses much of the information in the sequence, measuring only if it was overall a long time or a short time, compared to other samples.