Sentence examples for security collapsed from inspiring English sources

As security collapsed, neighborhoods banded together, almost spontaneously, to face any provocation, imagined or otherwise.

Security collapsed under these circumstances, and many Lebanese and resident foreigners were taken hostage by different political groups, to remain their prisoners for months or years.

The next year, however, Toor Jan, the leader of the biggest militia, was killed, security collapsed and the Taliban took over.

The return of foreign business people and sports stars to Pakistan is a key ambition of Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister last held office before security collapsed in the post-2001 era.

But under cross-examination in the trial's 10th hearing, the committee's three representatives admitted they did not know whether the journalists' work had endangered national security – collapsing the prosecution's case, and raising the question of whether the committee had written their own report in the first place.

The onset of panic is usually heralded by a dramatic effect: in July, two Bear Stearns hedge funds that had invested heavily in mortgage securities collapsed.

The security in question, called a variable leveraged super senior certificate, was sure to be safe unless the market value of a bunch of AA-rated secollapsedcollapsed.

Let's not forget that Bear Stearns lost billions for its clients last summer, when two hedge funds investing heavily in mortgage securities collapsed.

Just days before, two Bear Stearns hedge funds holding mortgage-backed securities collapsed — the first tremors of what became a full-blown credit crisis.

Tens of thousands of investors nationwide, including institutional and individual investors, cities, towns, charities and small businesses, were left holding damaged, illiquid securities when the $330 billion market for auction-rate securities collapsed in mid-February, regulators say.

Mexico's December 1994 devaluation sparked a panic in which all emerging-market debt securities collapsed pretty much together and to the same degree, regardless of individual countries' relative strengths and weaknesses.