Sentence examples for collapsed swiftly from inspiring English sources

But all that deliberate planning collapsed swiftly when heavily armed, battle-hardened Islamist fighters returned from combat in Libya.

Because the Mets collapsed swiftly and suddenly in losing six of their last seven before Friday, they turned Martínez's starts from tuneups to vital tests.

This defeat pushed the Arabs on the defensive, and even though no pitched battles took place, over the next few years the Arab position in Transoxiana collapsed swiftly.

This defeat pushed the Arabs on the defensive, and even though no pitched battles took place, over the next few years the Arab position in Transoxiana collapsed swiftly: by 728, in the face of the Turgesh attacks and a widespread anti-Arab revolt, only Samarkand and the two fortresses of Kamarja and Dabusiyya on the Zarafshan River remained in Arab hands in all of Transoxiana.

Royal authority in America collapsed as swiftly as it did because it was scarcely entrenched to begin with, not because there was overwhelming support for the patriot cause.

If the book's polemical overtones rankle at times, its conclusion that religious coercion inevitably "produces a false uniformity that collapses as swiftly or slowly as social conditions permit"—is powerful.

That riff just keeps rolling on, and Iggy keeps on howling, begging his lover to save him, and then to "stick" him, promising to give the same in return, until, after six or so minutes of this rutting and strutting, the song collapses as swiftly as it began.

The deal swiftly collapsed.

Previous deals have swiftly collapsed.

East Germany's Communist regime swiftly collapsed, free elections followed and the state itself vanished with German reunification in October 1990.

As a result, the girls refused to participate in providing evidence and the police investigation swiftly collapsed.