These sketches testifyto collapsing arrangements whose underlying edifice is time.
But the arrangement collapsed after Mr. Harper took the unusual step of shutting down Parliament.
The arrangement collapsed a year later, but it won Mr. Jackson the support of many influential American Jews.
When the arrangement collapsed, investors lost more than $300 million, the S.E.C. said.
That arrangement collapses, of course, with the arrival of the next penguin.
That arrangement collapsed weeks later when Russia moved heavy artillery into the Aleppo area to help Mr. Assad's forces.
This promising arrangement collapsed in the 1990s during hysteria about an adolescent crime wave that never materialized.
Towards the end, as a particularly complex arrangement collapsed around him, Orbit emerged grinning from the musical wreckage, and simply began the piece all over again.
When Mr. Golding, under pressure, recently agreed to extradite Mr. Coke to the United States to face charges, including trafficking in drugs and arms, the arrangement collapsed, and Mr. Coke's supporters took up arms and barricaded the streets.
That arrangement collapsed itself in the 1970s, and ever since, politicians have spent far too much of their time shadowboxing over income tax; for all their fighting talk, the tax take has remained eerily stable for decades at two-fifths of the national income.
And although the whole arrangement collapsed within two decades, this was in part because of the rise of Nazism and communism, both ideologies of conquest.
