Part of the Hilton apparently crumbled immediately after the blast.
Initially there was some opposition by the coffee growers, but their resistance crumbled immediately.
Over the Vince Foster affair, White House aides showed the usual solidarity; but over Monica Lewinsky the protective wall of staffers and friends crumbled immediately, until Mrs Clinton brought in the troops to shore it up again.Mr Clinton has also failed in his attempts to claim executive privilege in the documents department.
According to the interview conducted by Steve Mirsky, Mr. Weisman thinks: Large parts of our infrastructure — streets, roads — would start to crumble almost immediately.
There was fierce competition for the contract and some of William Beckett's enemies were pleased when it was established that the Mountcharles sandstone employed had been wrongly used: face-bedded instead of end-bedded, so that it began to crumble almost immediately, though this was never clearly established as the builder's mistake and may well have been the architect's.
The dance of love is not a competition between both of you, you are a team, most of the time, a real good winning team and sometimes you lose, but the stage will not immediately crumble around you.
His site immediately crumbled under the resulting wave of visitors.
The ammunition the Pentagon provided him came in cardboard boxes that immediately crumbled, exposing cartridges to the elements on his storeroom's dirty floor.
Hoover then immediately crumbled before the "austerity wing" of the Republican Party, passing the Revenue Act of 1932, which included an explosion of personal and corporate income taxes, and a barrage of excise taxes (in effect, a sales tax).
He immediately crumbled in obvious pain.
The reinforcement was met with machine gun and mortar fire, but the Chinese resistance immediately crumbled under the Churchill tanks' devastating assaults.
