Sentence examples for prominent collapse from inspiring English sources

The state-owned Korea Development Bank (KDB), its biggest creditor, refused to supply any more loans, so the company defaulted on short-term debts to suppliers, putting it into receivership.Such a prominent collapse shocked the country.

The most prominent collapse to date has been that of Smart Union Group, a leading toymaker that is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange and is a supplier to The Walt Disney Co. and Mattel.

Bear's hedge funds were among the first prominent collapses related to the bursting of the housing bubble.

There are demands for better oversight in the wake of the prominent collapses recently of the telecom firm One.Tel and the insurance giant HIH.

Rubino is another prominent collapser voice, author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar, and The Money Bubble.

The most spectacular collapse came last week, when partners at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a prominent San Francisco Bay Area firm, decided to wind down the firm's business.

Remarkably, apart from a few grumbles, most of the nation seemed to think that was just fine.A prominent manufacturing collapse might seem an odd measure of economic success, but the popular consensus that workers at MG Rover and its suppliers could find jobs elsewhere was a vote of supreme self-confidence.

The same month, a prominent professor collapsed of a heart attack while teaching class and later died.

A possible buyer might be a Japanese financial institution that did not believe Japan would allow such a prominent business to collapse.

Whatever the cause of the bill's collapse, prominent lawmakers in the House and Senate were left to explain the defeat to corporate lobbyists who considered passage of the bankruptcy bill to be among their major goals in Congress and who are among the most generous donors to Congressional candidates from both parties.

In one of the most prominent incidents, Caesar collapsed at the battle of Thapsus in 46BC and had to be carried to safety.