I wonder what it will take to get this country serious about repairing and rebuilding its crumbling and increasingly obsolete infrastructure.
The Non-Aligned Movement and the G77 are crumbling as increasingly powerful states like India start to carve out their own path.
Another break in the ninth was enough for the set and, as Lisicki's serve crumbled, the increasingly impressive Halep sprinted to the last four.
A teenage marriage to Peter Taylor, a literature student, brought a son, Clark, but the union crumbled; Collins was increasingly on the road and drinking to excess, and she lost custody of Clark.
Something sinister slithers underfoot, a crumbling authoritarianism, employing increasingly repressive measures to hold back the same chaos it's unleashed, something that's already leaving bodies in the streets.
At the point it shifts gear, however, "Turn the River" becomes a jerky, desultory chase movie in which Kailey's solidity crumbles, and she seems increasingly unhinged; the last third of the movie is almost a different, and much weaker, film.
As the fevered pitch of cries from fans and community for the preservation of 5 Pointz runs up against the dual realities of a crumbling infrastructure and an increasingly desirable location for real estate development, we all reluctantly cede that the writing is probably on the wall (pardon the pun).
It may be hard to imagine flying as anything other than a nightmare of packed planes, crumbling airports, canceled flights and increasingly invasive security.
And there will be the real estate issues, as coastal property values crumble, heat and water become increasingly problematic in much of the Sun Belt, and many people pick up and move to Canada.
2) Reclaim your power from a crumbling and desperate (and, thus, increasingly grasping) publishing industry by self-publishing in print or electronic format.
As stalemate, trench warfare, and consolidation of the de facto border increasingly typify a crumbling ceasefire, the alleged offensive last week could represent a hint of violence to come. .
