Sentence examples for precipitated its collapse from inspiring English sources

What precipitated its collapse?

The hedge fund's chief executive, Nicholas M. Maounis, noted in a letter to investors Wednesday that the settlement was unrelated to Amaranth's failed natural gas investment that precipitated its collapse in September.

The Senate subcommittee was also planning to ask Mr. Tilney about his involvement and investment in LJM2, the partnership that investigators think masked Enron's true financial condition but eventually precipitated its collapse.

Is it true that unchecked speculation has brought the financial system to its boiling point and precipitated its collapse?

The following day another Socialist leader, Indalecio Prieto, declared that the Socialists would no longer participate in government, which precipitated its collapse.

The government set him up, he said, by encouraging him to lend, only to later impose restrictions and then remove government pension funds from Bank Summa to precipitate its collapse.

Enhanced calving and flow acceleration in response to rising relative sea level is speculated to have undermined the integrity of the ice stream system, precipitating its collapse and driving the reconstructed pattern of ice sheet evolution.

Adding to Deutsche Bank's headaches, the bank's former chief executive and its current board chairman, Rolf E. Breuer, is being sued in the United States on allegations that public comments he made about the debt-ridden media empire of Leo Kirch helped precipitate its collapse.

It was Northern Rock's inability to sell a £5.5bn securitisation of mortgages in September that precipitated its near collapse.

And while the transactions at the heart of the SEC's complaint may have resulted in material accounting misstatements, they are immaterial to the company's costly implosion: They occurred from 2000 to 2002 and are wholly unconnected to AIG's massive bet in the credit default markets that precipitated its ultimate collapse.

The city is girding itself for a possible transit strike next month, mindful that it was just such an event in the 1960s that precipitated its last outright fiscal collapse.The cause of all this friction: money.