Sentence examples for collapsed outright from inspiring English sources

The neighborhoods are dotted with homes that have been damaged — or have collapsed outright — from the persistent government shelling over the past year.

Thelen and Heller Ehrman, two firms whose deep San Francisco roots extend back decades, have collapsed outright, in part because of the business slowdown.

Though they found that most buildings had collapsed outright and virtually all the rest were heavily damaged, they said they experienced a powerful sense of homecoming.

Two parents digging in the rubble for the body of their 16-month-old daughter said local police would not help.Next door in Sindhupalchok district, every mud-and-stone house was cracked, and many had collapsed outright.

Damage was especially heavy to brick buildings in Bakersfield, and although only a few buildings collapsed outright, 90 of 264 buildings that the shock damaged needed to be brought down completely.

Democracy has been deeply compromised and may yet collapse outright.

Before it collapses outright, we would do well to balance it with a rather different set of beliefs.

Rather than collapse outright, a carmaker could file for bankruptcy protection.

The country's more important foreign partners America, India and Saudi Arabia, for example—will not be pleased by the prospect of democracy in Bangladesh collapsing outright, yet again.

Absent this, it is likely to either fail to generate economic benefits to the nation, or collapse outright in a flurry of Solyndra-style scandals.

Letting Rosspirtprom collapse outright would have been a scandal for Putin: a lucrative national-champion company falling apart solely thanks to the Kremlin's public-health policies.