Sentence examples for members collapsed when from inspiring English sources

Some family members collapsed when the news was delivered yesterday; others screamed and railed at police.

Indeed, she helped to rebuild this chapter after it had collapsed when members quit en masse in 1998 after the president of a chapter of the union in a nearby municipality was assassinated.

Opposition attempts to hold rival presidential elections in February collapsed when 17 members of the former central election commission, including its chairman, Victor Golchar, were arrested by paramilitary police.

He appointed one of them top mistress, to supervise the others, but the arrangement collapsed when a younger member of the team applied for the leadership position and his "manager" turned him in.

After all the lofty plans for a new constitution — the French inspiration, the fact-finding trips to Mexico — the project collapsed when the Brotherhood tried to stack the committee with its own members, leading to a walkout by others.

Turkey's hopes of becoming the first Islamic member of the EU were reduced to ashes, and its aspiration to resolve the Cyprus occupation collapsed when Derviş Eroğlu, a Turkish nationalist, was recently elected leader of northern Cyprus.

Backed by the forestry service, this effort to enhance local control over resources collapsed when an altercation between one village committee and extra-local herders led to several committee members being jailed.

That collapsed when the credit crisis hit.

The main hospital collapsed when the earthquake hit.

Foam collapsed when water saturation reached the critical value regionally.

Four staff members collapsed and needed attention themselves.