Sentence examples for collapsed rather from inspiring English sources

"That campaign collapsed rather rapidly," Merkt said.

Like other airports in big cities, it is struggling to overcome congestion and improve outdated quarters -- goals that might have been unreachable if T.W.A. had collapsed rather than falling into American's arms.

After being controversially traded away from the Union last year, Califf wanted to return to the Philadelphia area so badly that he chose to end his playing career after Toronto's trade talks with Philadelphia collapsed, rather than get shipped around the country any further.

When the Kremlin's largesse dried up, the industry virtually collapsed: Rather than hundreds of aircraft produced annually, in the 1990s it dropped to dozens.

The technique followed was similar to that used by Dickson, Diveley, and Kiene, except that the excision of the infected scar tissue and sinuses was not carried out so meticulously, and, in several instances, extensive subfascial and deep abscesses were curetted and collapsed rather than excised.

When saying that, I am not suggesting some kind of apocalyptical scenario in which all of Europe collapses; rather, I am referring to the idea of Europe.

The announcement came as the European Union set out rules that would put the onus on shareholders and bondholders to incur losses when banks are close to collapse, rather than the institutions turning to taxpayers.

Anyone would have to admit that the idea of taking a swing at a building with a massive demolition ball would be immensely tempting, but infuriatingly the buildings are simple structures that appear to be made from Lego blocks – neatly collapsing rather than, as you would hope, exploding into smithereens.

The ribs are bound to the spine by flexible cartilage, which allows the ribcage to collapse rather than snap under high pressure.

The article raised the most questions regarding the virus' mutation and the medical results, and pointed out that a suspension bridge like the Brooklyn Bridge would likely completely collapse rather than losing only its middle span.

Naïvely, one would expect that a universe which began from a singularity -- a state of infinite matter density and infinite curvature -- would collapse rather than expand, since the gravitational attraction of the matter would overwhelm the repulsive force.