While many failures of recent times have been, at least in part, driven by the economy, HMV's reported demise is a structural failure.
And the government's price controls, nationalizations, and other interventions have caused more distortions and structural problems that will hasten the economy's demise.
Many of the structural changes made in response to the Titanic's demise are still with us today.
Some suggest that crony capitalism brought Asia's demise; others criticise the IMF for pushing too many structural reforms.
The targeting of migrants fleeing war, structural adjustment, and gang related violence as the causes of the demise of the welfare states is just one example of these narratives of the 'ungrievable' other (Butler, 2010; see also De Genova, in press).
The role of epirubicin cardiotoxicity in the death of the first twin was supported by post-mortem cardiac and placental examination and by the absence of structural or genomic abnormalities that may indicate an alternative etiology of fetal demise.
From its origins around 800 BC to its final dissolution in AD 476 with the demise of the Western Roman Empire, Rome's military organization underwent substantial structural change.
Analyst Meredith Whitney, who famously predicted Citigroup's demise in 2007, said last month in a report that banks should expect "structural changes," according to the Wall Street Journal, as she predicted the U.S. financial services industry would cut between 5 and 10percentt of its workers.
Fatigue as a failure mechanism has been attributed to playing a significant role in the demise of many engineered products and is considered one of the most common causes of structural failure found in-service, even though laboratory fatigue behaviour of most metals and alloys is well understood.
