Sentence examples for that it collapsed from inspiring English sources

Some of them remember the first year of the Clinton presidency, when an economic stimulus package got so piled up with pork and well-meaning but not necessarily critical social programs that it collapsed under its own weight.

"We are reasonably certain that it collapsed inexplicably but on its own," Mr. Holzer said.

One former school official recalled that workers poured the foundation during such heavy rains that it collapsed.

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which became known as Galloping Gertie because it twisted in the wind, so badly one morning in 1940 that it collapsed into the water.

Disagreements over that round -- principally between the United States and Europe, but also between the developed world and poorer nations -- proved so divisive at the world trade meeting in Seattle last year that it collapsed in discord.

At one party, during a rowdy set from an acoustic ruffian whose signature song went "Buckfast/ It gets you fucked fast", so many punks pummelled the low ceiling that it collapsed on us.

When a star runs out of nuclear fuel, some of its mass flows into its core, which eventually gets so dense that it collapses from its own gravitational force.

Paula Vitaris, writing for Cinefantastique, rated "Unrequited" one star out of four, writing that it "collapses under the weight of its message" and that it "fails to bring to life any of its guest characters".

"In this situation, with the eruption column so high, the main risk is that it collapses, falls due to gravity because of its own weight and causes a pyroclastic flow," said Gabriel Orozco, a vulcanologist with Chile's National Geology and Mining Service.

As one observer in Berlin puts it, Germany's real fear is not that the euro zone unravels to the Alps, but that it collapses all the way up to the Rhine.

The lesion may heal with reconstitution of both structural and mechanical properties, or the process of rebuilding may weaken the bone structure so that it collapses from the mechanical forces across the joint.