Sentence examples for tendency to collapse from inspiring English sources

Rhubarb has a tendency to collapse suddenly.

But change is sneaky, and models based on historic truths have a tendency to collapse.

The sides have a tendency to collapse when you bite in.

Pasqual wore a straw hat and displayed a worrying tendency to collapse to the floor in mid-sentence.

But Long also said that Jones's back leg has a tendency to collapse, causing him to uppercut his swing.

Smaller values of this ratio were characterized by lower rock integrity and a tendency to collapse and fall.

In healthy children, the chest wall compliance is usually higher compared with lung compliance promoting the tendency for lung to collapse at low lung volume, being the rib cage relatively ineffective for opposing the inward recoil of the lungs [39, 40].

The "inevitable" tendency of liberalism to collapse into fascism "can be derived, apart from any economic causes, from the inner contradiction between the subjectivist principle of self-interest and the idea of reason that it is supposed to express" (Horkheimer 1987, 21).

Kane lists among the difficulties the unsterilized conditions and the tendency of veins to collapse following haemorrhage.

This tendency of the lung to collapse or pull away from the chest is measurable by carefully placing a blunt needle between the outside of the lung and the inside of the chest wall, thereby allowing the lung to separate from the chest at this particular spot.

The converging configuration of proximal screws, as used in type A3 fractures and the more unstable type A2 fractures (when the lateral wall proved to be particularly at risk), seemed to withstand the tendency of these fractures to collapse.