Sentence examples for crumbled between from inspiring English sources

They have been making bilateral deals with the "government" of Abkhazia, too, over exploration rights and cutting off Georgian exports such as wine and cutting flights.' That phoney war was been swept away by the fierce heat of the fighting as Tskhinvali has crumbled between the two sides.

If I try to get a grip on the "patriotism" that has allegedly propelled us out of the European Union, I find that it crumbles between my fingers.

The thread contains photos of the actual bud as well the ugly, plain Health Canada-mandated packaging it comes in, along with reviews, such as "Smells like lemon with a hint of pine, maybe?" and "the buds are really dry, it crumbles between my fingers".

Gwendolyn Freed, meanwhile, writes in a program article that "as Europe crumbled around him" between 1914 and 1921, Janacek "was apparently consumed with nothing so much as his fascination with a young woman, Kamila Stosslova".

Ryan insists that the constant focus on happiness – and weirdness – keeps the company competitive and innovative and is a nod to the blurring of the lines between personal and professional lives; the ability to check email and call mobile phones after work hours has crumbled the walls between work and home.

For a slight twist on the comforting classic, put crumbled blue cheese between slices of raisin brioche, along with thinly sliced pear.

The danger is that spats and rows will sour relations between China and America, just as the friendship between Germany and Britain crumbled in the decades before the first world war.

The deal which allowed US troops to disengage, and which could still crumble, was between two fairly homogenous groups - the Shia government of al-Maliki and the Sunni tribal chiefs.

To remove the crumbling mortar between the bricks, he said, the Pokorny firm will prohibit the use of power tools, limit the size of the crews and monitor the work very closely.

Although the mystery element here is fairly straightforward, what's utterly gripping is the psychologically acute depiction of the slowly crumbling wall between Jessica's personal and professional life as she struggles to adjust to single motherhood and her new, possibly compromised art‑consultant partner.

But it was only in 1991, with the furor over Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas, that the crumbling borderline between public and private, and the issue of a candidate's sexual "character," assumed the centrality that would make it the defining theme of the Clinton era, from the near-disaster of Gennifer Flowers to Paula Jones' lawsuit to the denouement of impeachment.