Sentence examples for path of collapse from inspiring English sources

Like termites eating away at a building's foundation, a weak commitment to states ultimately threatens to topple the internal and external order provided by the Westphalian system, with America and our allies directly in the path of collapse.

In my opinion, Iran is like a family that is on the path of collapsing internally and which, to solve its problem and improve the situation, is reaching to the neighbors.

Wall Street played a crucial role in the mortgage market's path to collapse.

("That's the exciting thing about collapse — the breaking down of barriers and definitions that just don't work anymore," Carolyn Baker, the author of the forthcoming book "Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse," told me).

There is concern that, unless resource use is checked, modern global civilization will follow the path of ancient civilizations that collapsed through overexploitation of their resource base.

We were a company close to the point of collapse with no clear path back to recovery.

In a separate memo to employees, Mr. Hester wrote that when he joined the bank, "we were a company close to the point of collapse with no clear path back to recovery".

The provincial capital in the fertile Euphrates River valley west of Baghdad is the biggest city to have been recaptured from Isis, and the first retaken by Iraq's army since it collapsed in the path of the militants' advance 18 months ago.

It makes sense that love would go the same way -- just another failed ideology, like communism, collapsing in the path of the market's indiscriminate force to lay bare the economic decision at the core.

Republicans, don't create a special path to the collapse of your party; create a real and inclusive path to citizenship.

The depredations of collapse and the mutations of self and spirit that attend powerlessness are glossed over by Bock, who suddenly veers off his narrative path like a horse running for the barn.