Sentence examples for the system collapsed from inspiring English sources

So, what's changed, I asked, since he wrote the book, and the system collapsed?

The system collapsed largely because it allowed governments no domestic monetary flexibility.

As soon as D♯ was needed as well as E♭, the system collapsed.

In 49 B.C., the system collapsed completely, Caesar crossed the Rubicon — and the rest, as they say, is ancient history.

One is a study of life in the Soviet Union just before the system collapsed, by the Belarusian campaigning journalist Svetlana Alexievich, which won her last year's Nobel prize for literature.

When Duncan Smith pressed ahead – against the expert advice of his own independent reviewer – with ESA rollout, well-publicised errors and a torrent of appeals meant the system collapsed into expensive chaos.

"If there is no reform, the system collapses".

Every now and then the system collapses – and families like Alejandro's pay the price.

Otherwise, the self-interest of different actors, supposedly a key driver of market efficiency, means the system collapses into mayhem.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the system collapses directly after this "key step" (Fig.  1b).

When the financial system collapsed, the effects were swift and dramatic.