Sentence examples for evidence crumbled from inspiring English sources

Less well known is the outcome of the prosecutions of the miners – all 95 were acquitted after the police evidence crumbled in the first trial of 15 of them.

Certainly, we have seen in anthropology and archeology how theories of human evolution based on fossil evidence alone have crumbled before new theories based on DNA analysis — not because the latter are more accurate or more convincing but just because they happen to involve DNA, those magic three letters.

There are fewer explosions and Nazis (except as subjects) – but the job does involve a lot of travel and fighting to get your hands on historical evidence before it crumbles, is stolen or gets shredded.

Thanks to a series of delays - and in some instances, crumbling evidence - he is yet to be extradited to the US to face the charges.

Tangible evidence of its crumbling is offered with some frequency.

The trunk line break offered dramatic new evidence of Los Angeles' crumbling water infrastructure, which has been a recurring problem for years.

In recent months there has been a definite grassroots campaign of censorship in comedy, in pearl-clutching newspaper headlines humorlessly picking apart a single off-color joke and presenting its splayed remains as evidence of our crumbling social order.

He believed or so it's said that the evidence against him had long crumbled to dust.

They crumbled miserably without too much evidence of fibre by the 24th over to be all out for 83 and to lose by 103 runs.

"I say 'seems' because the history of science is replete with consensus positions that have evolved ― or crumbled ― under the weight of additional scientific evidence," he continued.

The revolutionary council hopes that Koussa's defection is evidence of the regime crumbling from within given that it is clear the rebels are a long way from defeating Gaddafi by force.