Sentences with phrase «crumbling under the weight»

It seems clear that the federal immigration system is crumbling under the weight of its own processes and internal politics.

Not unlike the bible, your posts seem coherent until someone actually bothers to read them, at which time they crumble under the weight of contradiction and nonsense.

Even in a song like «Ruby's Arms,» about a tough soldier crumbling under the weight of apocalyptic sadness, there's a sliver of hope.

Well, observation, which can be expanded to trusting that your chair won't crumble under your weight because it hasn't in the twenty years you've owned it.

NL - Well, observation, which can be expanded to trusting that your chair won't crumble under your weight because it hasn't in the twenty years you've owned it.

It's not that it needs to be as sturdy as a pound cake, but most strawberry cakes are so fluffy that they would crumble under any weight.

Burnley have done great so far, but better teams than them have crumbled under the weight of Liverpool's front line.

After ONLY ONE USE, I realized that even though I followed the directions to the letter, it was definitely about to crumble under her weight.

I expect all Labour candidates now wonder what magic bullet there might be to confront their current upsurge beyond simply hoping that they will burn themselves out as they grow, diverge and crumble under the weight of their own vanity and incoherence.

But if environmental triggers of autism can not be ruled out, the idea that those triggers can be found in the MMR vaccine or in thimerosal has crumbled under the weight of scientific refutation.

One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled measurements of ocean temperature.

I refuse to crumble under the weight of unkind comments.

Plenty of promising young directors have crumbled under that weight, and there are moments in Black Panther where you can spot Coogler's growing pains.

Despite game attempts by various cast members, it can't stand on its own two feet, and crumbles under the weight of a simplistic script that bounces from comedy to melodrama with disarming frequency.

Plus, an old building that was on the verge of crumbling under the weight of itself has been saved for future generations to enjoy.

Once headed up by Burnout and Black director, Stuart Black, the exciting shooter crumbled under the weight of his departure and an overall hierarchical meltdown within Codemasters.

However, while the two cities may not have similar political climates, they have in common the fact that they've both become dystopian in nature, crumbling under the weight of their own radicalism.

«The history of multiplayer launches is bleached with the bones of games crumbling under the weight of their communities trying to log in all at once on day one, and having a terrible experience with unavailable servers for weeks afterwards,» said Henrique Olifiers, Co-Founder of Bossa Studios.

It was a moment when America's veneer of invincibility was crumbling under the weight of the Vietnam War, and the image hit a nerve.

Actual examples: Ancient China, every couple of hundred years, the old empire would crumble under the weight of bureaucracy and associated corruption, what would always follow is a time of banditry, as people who no longer believed in any group other than themselves did whatever they wanted to enrich themselves.

The truth is you can, but it took me a while to realize it because landing on the Bixby page makes the Galaxy S8 Active momentarily crumble under the weight of things Bixby is loading in (even after cleaning out the default clutter, like Giphy).

The 1.8 GHz Atom Z2760 inside the x2 does indeed run everything you throw at it, and does fine with anything designed for Windows 8 — though as we've talked about before that ecosystem is pretty seriously lacking — but it crumbles under the weight of legacy apps.

It is the inexorable circling, the never - ending cycle of work and giving until there is no more to give, that produces such a burden, the mother can crumble under the weight of her responsibilities.

Not exact matches

In the beginning of 2000, when investors finally decided they were unwilling to take on even greater amounts of risk, the market crumbled under its own weight.

For the third time this year, Saudi Arabia does not seem motivated to curb production as Iran's oil sector recovers, even as its less financially savvy OPEC comrades crumble politically and economically under the weight of two years of abysmal oil revenues.

If you look at it all separately then the bible has a certain sense to it, but once you start comparing and contrasting, thinking critically and historically, the bible immediately crumbles like a twig under a weight.

The edifice thus erected and defended for twenty centuries gradually has been seen to crumble to ruins under the multi-directional assault against a theism unable to sustain its own dead weight.

Thus, as the framework of Christendom began to crumble under its own weight from the sixteenth century onwards, Christian belief and allegiance experienced a surge of new life, first in Protestantism and then in Catholicism.

The foundations of religion are crumbling and it won't be long before the entire rotten, stinking edifice collapses under its own weight.

We are breaking each other down because we're crumbling inside, our pre-motherhood identity slowly disintegrating under the weight of the laundry, the groceries, and the thirty thousand jackets and sand toys and leaky sippy cups that our kids have left in the car.

In the meantime, changes need to be made because the ACA is crumbling under it's own weight.

This movie is a glorious mess that crumbles under its own weight.

If there is any kind of sensation to Nicolas Winding Refn's directorial atmosphere, then it's a feeling of ambition, whose degree of charm, broken up by moments of genuine inspiration, really does do a lot to almost save this mess, but alas, the final product crumbles short under the overwhelming weight of questionable storytelling, emphasized by both the ambition that could very well have molded it, as well as pacing problems.

The Marvel machine had finally crumbled under its own weight.

Contradicting a speech made at the beginning of the film about how players are never remembered for what they do on the field if they don't win, Linden has Lengyel (McConaughey, Failure to Launch) give a speech stating the exact opposite, as the film concentrates more on the adversities that the players, coaches, school officials, and members of the community had to overcome in order for the program to not crumble under the overwhelming weight of the tragedy's grim reminder before, during and after every humiliating defeat.

It is an overly ambitious work that nearly crumbles under its own weight.

In the beginning of 2000, when investors finally decided they were unwilling to take on even greater amounts of risk, the market crumbled under its own weight.

Sand is shoveled, tamped and packed into the forms to make large, elaborate sand sculpture creations possible without crumbling under their own weight.

Rapture discovered a powerful genetic modifier called ADAM, and the city slowly crumbled under the financial, political, and (of course) biological weight of such a discovery.

Cities burn and crumble while civilization seems to implode under the weight of the world's demise.