Sentences with phrase «to collapse under one's own weight»

Whether it has just one plaque or seems at risk of collapsing under the weight of your awards, it can probably be doing more for your law firm's business.

How could one column hold all of that valuable information without collapsing under the weight of ideas?

It will also help prevent your back from collapsing under weight.

A best case scenario is that there will never be an agreement on the local assessments and this whole new evaluation process will then collapse under the weight of its stupidity.

When the men let go of the supports, the entire tent collapsed under the weight of the water.

Assassin's Creed is hardly the only franchise to begin collapsing under the weight of its own mythology.

Traditionally, lawyers have aimed for a type of «precision» that results in cumbersome writing, with many long sentences collapsing under the weight of obscure qualifications.

Eventually the firm collapsed under the weight of its debt without the infusion of new equity and new equity partners.

Our structures are collapsing under weight of their own baggage as our memberships age and decline.

The urban doofus hipster vision involves narratives of moribund western economies governed by corrupt corporations collapsing under the weight of internal contradictions — leading to less growth, less material consumption, less CO2 emissions, less habitat destruction and a last late chance to stay within the safe limits of global ecosystems.

Butler & Hosch, «a national law firm specializing in the legal needs of the mortgage banking industry» (i.e. foreclosure) just collapsed under the weight -LSB-...]

Critic Consensus: While providing several top - notch action scenes, The Kingdom ultimately collapses under the weight of formula and muddled politics.

The Communist systems collapsed under the weight of their own fallacious economic dogmatism.

I remember, also, a case where a ceiling nearly collapsed under the weight of a birthing pool in a NYC apartment several decades ago.

«Instead, as governor he alienatedallies and persecuted opponents, leaving the Capitol more dysfunctional than ever — all before his administration collapsed under the weight of scandal.

It's a raw psychological thriller centring on two cop brothers, Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who commit the ultimate crime and soon see their world collapse under the weight of their former Police Chief father's shadow.

Despite Lawrence's best efforts, not to mention the obvious efforts of director Francis Lawrence, Red Sparrow collapses under the weight of screenwriter Justin Haythe's dull, uninspired adaptation of former CIA - agent - turned - author Jason Matthews» debut novel.

«It is somewhat heartening that demand did not collapse under the weight of tax increases and rising gasoline prices, but averting a collapse is not equivalent to surging demand,» Severino said.

This rampant dopiness creates so many silly, illogical events that the movie collapses under the weight of its own moronic nature.

The difference is that one side was in a shambles for many reasons — not least a carbon tax collapsing under the weight of internal contradictions.

Now he's suing the U.S. government for bailing AIG out after it almost collapsed under the weight of that risk.

These large Rust - Belt metropolitan areas are collapsing under the weight massive budget deficits and catastrophically underfunded public employee pension funds.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

It will be «fun» to watch the nannystate collapse under the weight of young men who collect their welfare check on Monday and commit jihad on Friday.

If Western economies collapse under the weight of Multiculturalism, the movement's benefactors will probably be gone after as well... I wouldn't want to be in their shoes...

Justifying God as a God of well - intentioned benevolence by placing boundaries around the triumphant omnipotence of God finally collapses under the weight of its own insufficiently conceived alternative.

And they made the mistake of playing Akron before the Zips collapsed under the weight of injury.

The coalition collapsed under the weight of its own failures and because a majority of Conservative MPs preferred to fight the forthcoming election as Conservatives rather than through «fusion» with the «CoalyLibs».

Whenever we have let places collapse under the weight of extreme poverty, whether Afghanistan or the West Bank, we've ended up paying horrendous consequences.

Conventional air - pressurized stadiums such as the Metrodome, whose inflatable roof collapsed under the weight of snow in December, are rare in the U.S. — and may be accidents waiting to happen

Liberia's medical system, which collapsed under the weight of Ebola, is gearing up again.

It's the sort of picture that feigns profundity, but instead collapses under the weight of its misguided imagery.

Resident Evil has been a mainstay of the horror genre for decades now, and by most accounts had grown a bit stale as it ventured further and further into action game territory and started collapsing under the weight of its own convoluted lore.

Now sure, the back half of the movie completely collapses under the weight of the genre's conventions, but hey, a quality hour of movie is roughly twice what I was expecting so I consider that a victory right there.

Without any real emotional center, SATC2 collapses under the weight of its embellishments.

Released four years after Lilies, the film collapses under the weight of its own niceties.

Borders collapsed under the weight of its own increasing complexity; in a Publishing Perspectives analysis, Philip Downer, the former CEO of Borders UK, said, «I believe that businesses have a finite number of core skills; running an established physical retail business alongside a sector - leading online business is a trick few have pulled off.»

In the end, the discussion collapsed under the weight of real - world application, because typographical choices aren't subject to morality — they're just tools to do a job.

I don't see this option being around for more than another ten years max as agencies collapse under the weight and lack of money.

With any luck, I'll sell that before Wall Street once again collapses under the weight of its own built - up greed and graft.

Their material collapses under the weight of a big dog, with no support layer to prevent your dog from pressing directly into the ground below, creating uncomfortable pressure points.

As society and political systems seemingly collapse under the weight of a human - technology tension, the show's theme actively and provocatively affirms «hyper - subjective artisanal practices» that apply to making the body «felt again, to bring the figure close to the object, and to bring the artist closer to his work»

First exhibited at MASS MoCA in 2013, in the installation Filthy Lucre, Darren Waterston reimagines James McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room — an icon of American art — as a decadent ruin collapsing under the weight of its own creative excess.

Early colonisation of the globe gives way to the homogenization of culture, as the boundaries of the geopolitical collapse under the weight of an era of virtual globalisation, where even temporal boundaries fail — with a sly dig at the empty commerciality of the process resulting in a miniature «Pop banality» — and it's hilarious to boot.

Record - breaking temperatures in Germany, Ukraine, Russia,... hundreds of people killed in buildings collapsed under the weight of snow, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people frozen to death in Central and Eastern Europe, the whole of Spain under snow blizzard alert,..

Lacking positive correlation between CO2 and major shifts in temperature (particularly when ice core evidence collapsed under the weight of the 800 year lag), scientists instead argue that they have gone through a long checklist (sun, clouds, volcanoes, etc) and have convinced themselves none of these others have caused late 20th century warming, so it must be man — that's all that is left.

«Before the company collapsed under the weight of financial scandal, Enron under CEO Ken Lay was a key proponent of the cap - and - trade idea.