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The city has so far resisted imploding into the sectarian violence that left at least 200 dead in 2010, and 700 two years previously.

Similarly, his early portraits of a laundry girl, a hurdy-gurdy boy, and an artist's model are made on classical models — the mottled paint-handling of the faces is reminiscent of Rembrandt's late portraits — but the lopsided gazes, the geometric jawlines and, the hollow skin all seem on the verge of imploding into the recombined fragments of Picasso's post-cubist portraits from decades later.

The White House clearly fears what would happen if the country imploded into the chaos of total state failure.

It's hard to be there, knowing this, without the giddying sensation of imagining that the lake, followed swiftly by the rest of the solar system, could accidentally implode into the size of a Biro tip at any moment.

The government is under pressure to clean up Wall Street after an era of excess that imploded into the financial crisis.

If this latter concept recalls the "high kindergarten" of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem, it's crucial to consider that the psychedelic exploration that roared to kaleidoscopic life before imploding into burnout in the 60s and 70s is returning now in formalized and more socially acceptable ways.

It looked like my aunt was starting to realize what had just happened and that she was not, in fact, imploding into herself, but now the cops were here so it was time for a show.

So the phase change creates a sudden reduction in pressure, allowing any ordinary matter in the star to implode into this new vacuum.

The film comes down on the side of hope, but its apocalyptic interludes, including the image of a planet imploding into gray dust, collapsing like a desiccated piece of fruit, linger.

The second season began well, but it imploded into schlock — the creators had fallen in love with the chemistry between their stars.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry is conferring with regional leaders about ways to prevent a geostrategic prize from imploding into a failed state.