But the K.K.K. was already collapsing, Pegram says, its rank and file pulling away from its leaders' oversize ambitions.
Smith calls Grant's tardy act "decisive," but the attempted corner was already collapsing by the time word of Grant's sell order reached Wall Street.
Given that by the time he signed a contract with Warner Brothers in 1955, the old studio system was already collapsing, he didn't have much of a choice but to head off on his own.
Though Cain's popularity was already collapsing, the end of this campaign will likely be a blow to Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, as Cain's remaining supporters are likely to go to another conservative candidate, such as former congressman Newt Gingrich, and not Romney who has a history of taking more liberal positions he has since disavowed.
Early this month, Stephen Lewis, the special United Nations envoy for AIDS in Africa, conceded that the W.H.O.'s ambitious plan to have three million people in treatment by 2005 -- announced on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day -- was already collapsing from a lack of money.
Granted, some (like my wife) believe it's already collapsed.
That will hit the banking sector, which is already collapsing.
The NHS structures were already collapsing before the legislation had even been passed.
His marriage had "failed" – by now I was putting the verb in quotes, as some of my own contemporaries' marriages were already collapsing.
The concrete used in the construction was substandard and is already collapsing in places because of the constant rain of sewage, Lieutenant Selah said, barely able to contain his anger.
