Sentence examples for power collapse from inspiring English sources

Any of them dependent on pensions or income paid in sterling saw their buying power collapse in 2009, when the pound plunged to €1.02.

President Hugo Ch z, left, has said rationing is necessary to prevent water levels in the Guri Dam -- the cornerstone of Venezuela's energy system -- from falling to critical lows and causing a widespread power collapse.

Senior government officials quickly ruled out the possibility of an attack on the electrical grid by guerrilla groups, contending that the power collapse was caused by a glitch at a substation in Bogot?

The power collapse that stilled a large swath of North America Thursday apparently began with a failure in the Midwest that cascaded into Canada, and from there into New York, power industry officials said yesterday.

There was hope that both candidates might show up, but the latest talks between their two camps over how to share power collapsed — again — over the weekend.

It was done in the early years of Soviet Russia, and in a host of other countries since, including Russia after Communist power collapsed there in 1991.

She had good jobs too, first on Izvestia, the government paper, then on Aeroflot's in-flight magazine.Having discovered democracy and the free press as Soviet power collapsed, her faith was uncompromising and sometimes uncomfortable.

"Today Italy is on the edge of an abyss: the economy is exhausted, a million more are unemployed, purchasing power collapsed, tax pressure is rising to intolerable levels," Berlusconi said.

In May 1358 he acted in concert with the Jacquerie, who were revolting against the nobles; but when the revolt was put down in June, Marcel's popularity and power collapsed.

After the reign of Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV; reigned 1353 36 bce), that power collapsed altogether, but his successors attempted to recover it, and Ramses II (1279 13 bce) reconquered Phoenicia as far as the Al-Kalb River. Al-Kalb River

The reported capitulation occurred after the Taliban's power collapsed with almost lightning speed over most of Afghanistan in the last several days, leaving Kandahar, a desert city where the movement was founded, the last major holdout.