Sentence examples for ignominious collapse from inspiring English sources
In addition to his epic history of the Ming dynasty, which he extended to include its ignominious collapse, Zhang experimented with many genres and forms.
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries – not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists.
A month after the ignominious collapse of Lehman Brothers, investors remained gripped by stomach-churning vertigo: the bankruptcy of the Wall Street giant forced traders everywhere to think the unthinkable - no firm, however venerable, was too good to fail.
The first was his betrayal by his first wife – and their subsequent divorce – and the second was the ignominious collapse of his career in the army during the second world war.
I once had an ignominious collapse on an Ecuadoran volcano, from which I had to be rescued by an elderly woman with a mule, and I was worried that I might have set myself up for a similar humiliation.
Thus an organisation that had been given life by the state was eventually extinguished by it.A dangerous connectionEver since its ignominious collapse the Company has been treated as an historical curiosity an "anomaly without a parallel in the history of the world", as one commentator put it in 1858, a push-me pull-you the like of which the world would never see again.
What I wouldn't have given for a few renditions of "That's terrible!" from Bill Walton to describe Utah's ignominious 96-54 collapSundayday night to Chicago in Game 3 of the National Basketball Association finals.
Alas, poor Krispy Kreme, it had a meteoric rise and an ignominious crash.
It's too early to add the 2007 Mets to the ignominious roster of collapses.
The Nets made ignominious history for the worst collapse in the N.B.A. playoffs.
Since last getting to the World Series in 2003, the Yankees have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first round twice and in the second round once, suffering the most ignominious postseason loss in baseball history with their 2004 collapse against the Red Sox.
