Sentence examples for collapsed towards from inspiring English sources

But sales collapsed towards the end of the 90s and major labels abandoned the cassette in 2003.

He made clear that three floors of the shopping centre had collapsed towards the "tail end" of the operation.

If you want to get a sense of proportion about fraud read Phillip Inman's reports today – this one's even scarier – about the "window dressing" role played by major accountancy firms (Ernst & Young, in this instance) in London as Lehman Brothers collapsed towards its world-shaking disaster.

d f With gentle piezocision and water pressure, the finger-like membrane is slowly mobilized and collapsed towards the remainder of the sinus cavity.

Australia took a first innings lead and O'Neill made 26 in the second innings as Australia collapsed towards a likely defeat before recovering; the match ended in the first Tied Test in history.

As the Third Reich collapsed towards the end of the war, Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery.

For trillions and trillions of lifeless years the universe will slowly collapse towards its final death, and then, as Cox explained in a voice reverberating with cosmic rapture: "Nothing happens and it keeps not happening for ever".

Most of the credit, however, must go to capitalism and free trade, for they enable economies to grow and it was growth, principally, that has eased destitution.Poverty rates started to collapse towards the end of the 20th century largely because developing-country growth accelerated, from an average annual rate of 4.3% in 1960-2000 to 6% in 2000-10.

Rather than the rest of Europe's rates collapsing towards Germany's borrowing cost, Germany's rates should have risen in recognition of the fact that it was essentially "backstopping" profligate borrowers.

As it moved north, inflow winds came in from the south and caused Towers 12, 13, and 14 to finally collapse towards the north, twisting counterclockwise.

We have all seen beginners learning to squat, with some of them allowing their knees to collapse towards each other instead of remaining straight in line during the squat.