These efforts were unsuccessful, and, by about 1870, the Kashmir industry had almost collapsed.
Since 2007, Gigha has provided award-winning halibut to the wholesale fish trade, easing the pressure on a wild stock that has almost collapsed.
Critically, private sector investment has almost collapsed, and it is this slump that now accounts for 80% of the total output lost since the recession began.
Its first actual trial, against Thomas Lubanga, a former Congolese warlord, at last got under way in January but had almost collapsed before it started when it was found that some evidence had been kept from defence lawyers.
"I've had to walk away from plays in development where I haven't felt it was my right to ask the writer to write differently, and it has almost collapsed my relationship with opera," she says.
In three recent tests of trading sentiment, they proved the most coherent supporters of liberalisation, with four-fifths of members voting to widen trade, compared to between half or two-thirds of Republicans and only half of all Democrats.But while this faction has emerged to support liberalisation, backing for free trade has almost collapsed in the rest of the Democratic Party.
The upper structure of the Gopura V (W) has almost collapsed.
EU officials said the eurozone had almost collapsed earlier this year because it lacked such a mechanism.
Just as unexpectedly, the gavel came down on UN climate talks that had almost collapsed because of wide gaps between the positions held by rich and poor nations.
Following competition from imports, first of handmade paper products from Tibet around the 1930s and then of machine-made paper from India, by the 1960s the handmade paper industry in Nepal had almost collapsed.
