Sentence examples for social implosion from inspiring English sources

Recent rural riots have raised the possibility of social implosion.

But what was striking was the talk of the country's imminent social implosion.

He says he is a Democrat, perhaps the only one who can save the nation, and maybe the world, from an economic and social implosion.

More than yet another glaring contribution to social division, these contrasts represent stages on the path to self-destructive social implosion.

Without such changes, experts say, Italy is headed toward an economic and social implosion, with a rise in under-the-table work and a looming pension crunch, now that Italy bases pensions on years of social security contributions and not a worker's final salary at retirement age.

This was more than a cheap shot aimed at the next day's headlines: it summed up the central logic of the government's welfare reforms and the local social implosions they will soon sow.

Yet a Greek exit also "could trigger a social and economic implosion in that country with shock waves reverberating beyond its borders in a region rife with flash points," said one European diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The Horton murder, according to Thai academics and civil servants who have submitted a confidential report to their government, was the culmination of "a social and moral implosion" on Koh Samui, an island that, over the past two decades, has been transformed from a pirates' hideaway, home to coconut farmers and peripatetic fishermen, into a raucous engine of capitalism.

Basically, the gist of all this it is that America is within weeks of complete social and economic implosion.

Rather, it's just another tool we have to help distract ourselves from drone warfare and the plight of Lamby and the ongoing social media-driven implosion of American democracy our civilization's oddly mundane decline.

(Clearly, some folks were never ready to give up social bookmarking, despite Delicious' implosion then somewhat fizzless relaunch).