Sentence examples for department collapsed from inspiring English sources

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Circulation increased, but the circulation department collapsed under the weight of the draft.

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In 1995, Seoul residents were horrified when the Sampoong department store collapsed, claiming 502 lives.

The department store collapsed into administration just 13 months later, and the staff now face losing their jobs and pension cuts.

The department store collapsed in April 2016 leading to the loss of 11,000 jobs and leaving a pension deficit assessed at up to £571m.

A five-story department store collapsed in a heap of rubble, causing a fire in an underground parking garage where cars crushed by falling debris leaked gasoline, which ignited and sent acrid smoke billowing through the complex; more than 500 shoppers were killed, and 400 were missing amid tons of concrete and metal debris.

In 1995, Seoul's ritzy five-story Sampoong department store collapsed like a stack of pancakes, killing 501 people.

The sheriff's department nearly collapsed for lack of funds: The jail had largely closed down, reported thefts in Grants Pass increased 80percentt in just a year, and felony suspects arrested with stolen goods were sometimes issued tickets and released.

He said it was a "most sinister development" at the broadsheet title, which he described as "the most important conservative-leaning newspaper in Britain", but where he alleged the traditional distinction between the advertising and editorial departments had collapsed.

One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is "collapsing" and that "absolute chaos" reigns.

"2011 has been a year consumed by rebuilding all the infrastructure in the department that had collapsed," said Mr. Serpas, who had earlier set a goal of a 5 percent reduction in the homicide rate for the year.

The department store chain collapsed into administration barely a year after Chappell acquired it, leaving 11,000 jobs at risk and the company pension fund in deficit to the tune of £571m.

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