Sentence examples for ideas collapsed from inspiring English sources

Of course all these highfalutin ideas collapsed as soon as I was offered something".

Universals are thus essential to inference, and for this reason Hume's account of inference in terms of the association of ideas collapses: Humean ideas are particulars, fleeting episodes which cannot be revived by association.

The first idea collapsed along with housing prices and the stock market in 2007 and 2008.

That idea collapsed when the city lawyers said aspects of it would run afoul of the State Constitution, Councilman Joel Rivera said.

That idea collapsed with the Communist regime, but Chevron did enter into a joint venture with Kazakhstan to develop the Tengiz oil field in 1993 -- an onshore project in western Kazakhstan that first vaulted this newly independent nation into Westerners' view.

Sometimes an interesting idea collapses into a puddle of dead metaphors and weary cadences: "The rise of social hierarchy, anthropologists agree, goes hand in hand with the rise of militarism and war, which are in their own way also usually hostile to the danced rituals of the archaic past".

David Cameron claimed Labour was basing its "economic policies on a throwaway remark on the BBC" and the shadow chancellor's ideas had "collapsed within five minutes".

To its critics, ZapMe represented a bad idea that collapsed under its own weight.

The "big society" has remained incapable of decentralising economic power, of holding financial elites accountable and so a promising and interesting idea has collapsed.

America is shortly to be great again; France is in serious danger of electing a new Vichy regime, helplessly puppeteered by itself; a world that can no longer think of new ideas is collapsing chaotically into its own past.

"I saw my idea collapse," she recalls.