Sentence examples for size of the collapse from inspiring English sources

Now, if she had done her job, if the OCC had done its job, if the Federal Reserve and at least the Federal Reserve admits that it didn't do its job but if these entities did what they were set up to do, I don't believe that we would've had the size of the collapse, or crisis, that we saw in September of 2008.

Computational results are presented which illustrate that the incorporation of fracture energy concepts as a regularization strategy furnishes a constitutive model which exhibits mesh invariance of the energy dissipation and reproduces the observed size effect of the collapse pressure in thick-walled cylinder (TWC) tests.

Mr. Kinnel says the size of the financial collapse has been "simply off the charts" and would have been hard to forecast for even the best of managers.

In a disaster the size of the Enron collapse, it can be hard to choose the biggest loser -- but a leading candidate has to be the Belfer family of New York City.

In the end it gets so compact that if a star the size of the earth collapsed into a black hole, its matter space would have a radius of less than 9mm.

He said reducing the size of the military after the collapse of communism left America's ground force "in near crisis" as it was stretched to deal with expanding global commitments in the battle against terrorism.

Colonel-General Anatoly Mazurkevich argues that if Russia's armed forces now less than half their size at the collapse of the Soviet Union shrink any more, they will be unable to defend the country's territory.

The outer shell is all plastic with an inner metal hinged band for adjusting the size of the headband, which collapses down for travel.

An extension allows for the risk of ecological collapse, when the critical size of the remaining landscape that precipitates the collapse is not known.

But the Enron case was unusual for the speed and size of its collapse.

It had been two months since the onset of the kreppa, or crisis — the financial disaster in which Iceland's three main banks, having grown to many times the size of the national economy, all collapsed, along with the country's currency and its reputation for pluck.