Sentence examples for have virtually collapsed from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile state services have virtually collapsed.

States that have virtually collapsed, he went on, like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and Somalia, are breeding grounds of instability, mass migration and murder as well as terrorism.

Experts who have visited the forests on Czechoslovakia's borders with East Germany and Poland report even greater damage there: Large areas of forests have virtually collapsed, apparently because they are downwind of power plants or industries which burn high-sulfur coal and whose emissions are uncontrolled.

There is a clear and urgent need for this in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the public health and veterinary infra-structures have virtually collapsed through neglect and enforced privatisation.

Leave until the fruit has virtually collapsed.

The edifice has virtually collapsed, but the foundations are solid.

The economy, for years a disaster area, had virtually collapsed.

Zimbabwe's once thriving agricultural sector has virtually collapsed during his tenure.

Now the card market has virtually collapsed and Pokemon "thousand-aires" have watched their net worth be wiped out.

French resistance had virtually collapsed and the British army, retreating towards Dunkirk, seemed to be doomed to destruction.

The walkouts were part of a nationwide general strike that has virtually collapsed amid lack of public support.