Sentence examples for collapsed so much as from inspiring English sources

Spain, being member of the monetary union, is desperately missing this instrument.The third answer may sound strange for a country for which its government never stops arguing for the necessity of austerity: domestic demand has not collapsed so much as in most continental countries, in particular the Netherlands.

Amis did not really collapse so much as die into middle age.

It did not collapse, nor was it overthrown so much as it ran down, particularly after World War II.

I like to use a housing metaphor: just because your house looks good, and its rooms are comfortable and well-decorated, doesn't mean it isn't built on such a poor foundation that it may collapse if a heavyset guest so much as runs down the stairs.

But the book's main weakness lies when it comes to the second question: is the West doomed?Mr Ferguson presents a thesis that the West risks not the genteel decline of old age so much as collapse.

This time around, with sales of recorded music having collapsed so enormously, it's not even as if there's much benefit to be gained.

But when he was 6, Raymond's world collapsed when his mother, unable to bear the demands of life, abruptly left without so much as a goodbye.

The Santa Clara County branch of the United Way recently collapsed after donations fell short of expectations.In many cases the problem does not seem to be miserliness so much as ignorance.

As it collapsed, so did the government's control of Shiite cities in the south and much of the Kurdish north.

Never before, though, have we seen it collapse piece by piece, level by level, and to such an extent that watching it happen became nothing so much as a cruel act of voyeurism.

She could not so much as wave.