Sentences with phrase «complete collapse of»

There have been many horror stories in NY about shoddy underpinning work causing a complete collapse of the building next door.

A recent example of the complete collapse of trust and faith in a government entity can be found in Venezuela.

The bailout package is aimed at staving off a complete collapse of Greece's economy — an event that could bring financial ruin to some of Europe's biggest banks.

The 2004 film «The Day After Tomorrow» imagined a world in which the complete collapse of a climate - regulating Atlantic Ocean current triggered catastrophic sea - level rise and extreme weather events in the U.S.

Update Judging by the comments, rightwingers are pretty hard to embarrass (after eight years of Bush, and the complete collapse of their economic ideology, I guess this isn't so surprising).

Second, the complete collapse of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet is not guaranteed, but it is quite plausible.

Updating the Soon (2005) correlations by correcting for an obsolete and almost certainly incorrect solar reconstruction (replacing with the SORCE reconstruction) and extending the temperature data to the present, shows an almost complete collapse of the initially impressive correlation.

Subsequent to the complete collapse of the Super El Niño phenomenon, the world's oceans have not experienced rapid, dangerous and accelerating global warming - no tipping point and runaway «boiling» seas as predicted by experts

With respect to the complete collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation will you kindly clearify the following for me.

In any event, to sum it all up, I can only assume this year's Frieze New York was an unmitigated disaster and signifies the complete collapse of the art market we all knew was coming.

What we have here is a complete collapse of the fourth estate, a situation in which journalists are subject to the whims of the overwhelmingly wealthy companies who wish to control them.

On the other hand, the complete collapse of prices... Read More

Complete collapse of the urban tax infrastructure lead to extreme problems as exemplified by the likes of Detroit, which is still struggling to get out of bankruptcy.

Instead, Detroit has had «a total and complete collapse of education in the city.»

And since the white - tailed ptarmigan is an «indicator species» for high - elevation ecosystems — the canary in the alpine — its path toward demise could signal the complete collapse of these ecosystems in the not - so - distant future.

Mylavarapu explains that a number of pulmonary upper airway disorders are associated with the vibration and / or deformation of the soft structures around the airway, leading to partial or complete collapse of the airway, as in the case of sleep apnea.

To stave off a complete collapse of gulf fisheries and shrimp populations, Scavia finds, the dead zone must shrink drastically, to 2,000 square miles or less — and for that to happen, agricultural nitrogen runoff will have to decrease by at least 40 percent.

After all, we have witnessed the near - complete collapse of the Anglo - Saxon model of capitalism and a credit crisis that has impoverished nations and will create great social pain and hardship over the next decade.

This represents the complete collapse of politics based on a different and better form of society for which we campaign, often against prevailing prejudice.

The complete collapse of democratic legitimacy in Europe is not a price we could possibly be willing to pay.

Sirs: I think you tended to underemphasize the role of Gene Mauch in both the rise and the complete collapse of the team in 1964.

Barring some strange clash of egos on the coaching staff or a complete collapse of the pass rush, the Michigan defense is going to be somewhere between strong and tremendous.

In part this is due to last season and the complete collapse of the natural order.

«Dairy exports have decreased from 50 per cent of milk production [worth around $ 5 billion per annum] to around 25 per cent, so this newest cull could result in the complete collapse of Australia's export industry.»

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

The report mentions that the explosion would have caused significant flooding in Kent, but that the nuclear option would be «100 per cent effective» at ensuring «totally irreversible total collapse, rupture [of] tunnel and seabed to cause total flooding and complete collapse of part of tunnel.»

Not exact matches

Frankel noted the basic features of the oil industry made for continuous crises with hectic prosperity followed all too swiftly by complete collapse.

Likewise, investors might have believed that the extraordinarily elevated market valuations of 1929 and 2000 were «justified» by the recent economic prosperity, but that did nothing to prevent the market collapses that completed those cycles, with over a decade of negative total returns for the S&P 500 in both cases.

Either deflation's growing momentum will pull today's faltering economies into the ever - growing maw of a deflationary collapse or the continued printing of money to stave off such a collapse will end with the complete debasement of paper currencies in a hyperinflationary blowoff.

This reminds me of 2008, when then - Treasury Secretary, ex-Goldman Sachs CEO, Henry Paulson, and Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, paraded in front of Congress and threatened a complete systemic collapse if Congress didn't authorize an $ 800 billion bailout of the biggest banks.

While we aren't predicting a complete repeat of the collapse, history illustrates that there is enough potential downside in these names to justify the risk of shorting them.

The present market cycle is likely to be completed by a collapse where a wholly run - of - the - mill outcome would be a decline of 40 - 55 % in the S&P 500 Index.

This reflects a Fed that is in a complete state of desperation about the collapsing economy.

An antidote is to be found, not in the neglect of the theme of family collapse, but in the embrace of a more complete understanding of family ¯ a realism that admits both sin and salvation.

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

Hold the Dark watches mutely as horrors unfold — not because the collapse is inevitable, but because, in this corner of Alaska, it has already been completed.

In this way Aristotle avoids the predicament whereby the immanence of the object collapses into a physical qualification of the subject and the transcendence of the object is nothing more than the complete externality of the cause.

With clear evidence Philip Lawler explains how one of the most thriving Catholic dioceses in the world collapsed into one with a drastic shortage of priests, closing parishes, and a complete lack of political influence.

The fecklessness of this, especially coming from the overweight and unattractive Connolly, Malcolm took to be characteristic of a civilization in complete collapse, which he supposed his to be, however eagerly he kept on the lookout for signs to the contrary.

In one of his novels, H. G. Wells has a picture of a big business man who was so tensed and strained with the pace of living that he was in danger of complete collapse.

By this time I had reconciled my faith in Jesus to the diagnosis and now feared a complete mental collapse more than the prospect of transitioning.

The important event of the past century has been the complete collapse, save within a very limited field, of the older mechanistic scheme.

That didn't mean there wasn't a chance for a disappointing contract, but it did mean that a complete and utter collapse into the bowels of the nightmare void was nearly impossible.

There are four games left for Arsenal to tackle in 2014, all of them in the Premier League, and barring a complete collapse and loss of form, the Gunners will get at least the five points that will make Arsenal the best EPL team of the calendar year, as a report in The Mirror shows that we have won 72 league points since January 1st with Man City in second with 65.

It's dangerous talk, particularly when it's your own club: but Wolves are sitting pretty at the top of the Championship right now, and barring a complete collapse, are almost already assured of promotion.

Of course, last season confounded everyone — I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I expected anything other than relegation for Leicester, or anticipated a complete Mourinho / Chelsea collapse, but even in a bonkers season some things were as predictable as ever.

WILLIAMSBURG — The $ 160 million dollar deal finalized Wednesday for the last piece of land needed to complete the 27 - acre Bushwick Inlet Park nearly collapsed at the last minute over a misunderstanding with the Brooklyn Borough President's office and a million dollar shortfall, officials familiar with negotiations said.

Lord Ashcroft's previous polling in LD v Lab seats essentially showed a complete Lib Dem collapse, raising the possibility of an almost complete wipeout for Liberal Democrat MPs where Labour was the main opponent.

Venezuela saw a new wave of looting last week that resulted in at least two deaths, countless wounded, and millions of dollars in losses and damages, as desperation sets in among hungry residents and the country appears to be on the verge of complete collapse and chaos.

Zarma said that the emergency repair of the collapsed Tatabu Bridge along Tegina - Mokwa - Jebba road in Niger state at 95 per cent completion level would be completed in June.