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How to use the word collapses in a Sentence?

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The thing that strikes mostly are the type of collapses – what we call the pancake collapse – which is the type of collapse that we engineers don’t like to see, in such collapses, it’s difficult – as you can see – and a very tragic to save lives. It makes the operation of the search and rescue teams very difficult.

Mustafa Erdik

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Plume collapses occur when the heat generated at the surface by The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire is no longer sufficient to maintain an updraft, it could be because of the fire running out of fuel, or shading of the solar insolation, or any number of reasons, but the energy at the surface is cut and the column collapses due to its own weight and gravity.

Makoto Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you don't get this port issue resolved and open, Ukraine's economy completely collapses, it becomes landlocked like Moldova. The ports are critical.

David Beasley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So, I guess we’ll just cross that bridge when it collapses on top of us.

Michael Che

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is hurting McAuliffe, there is just no question about it, my sense of it is if they can get some reasonable compromise passed into law... this would stabilize both Joe Biden and McAuliffe. And if it collapses, I think it will be a nip and tuck race and the momentum would be more with Youngkin than McAuliffe.

Larry Sabato

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We need to manage the whole thing in a socially acceptable way or the country collapses.

Armin Laschet

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is the best known case for this interesting category of supernovae that is in between the mass range for the exploding white dwarf and the iron core of a massive star that collapses and then rebounds and leads to an explosion, the so-called core-collapse supernovae, this study significantly increases our understanding of the final stages of stellar evolution.

Alex Filippenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Pancake collapses tend to' stack' floors on themselves, bringing all their weight down nearly square on the floor below, this continues down, accumulating more weight and stress as the structure falls.

Gregg Favre

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Spalling can get to a point that, if not repaired, it can lead to eventual collapse, and I've been to places where there have been collapses of floors, of beams, of columns.

Greg Batista

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away, if the country collapses into anarchy and chaos, do we owe them nothing ?

Stephen Biddle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She is my sister. She could also be your mother, who falls down the stairs. It could be your son who collapses on the soccer field, If this were your loved one who was actively suffering and dying, and you knew there was a one percent chance of hope, what would you do to get that treatment in their dying bodies today?

Mayank Saxena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We don't know what the unaffiliated voters are going to do, but if the Democrats and the Joe Biden campaign can build an acceptable margin, that means Republicans will not just have to show up in numbers on Election Day, but by a margin that collapses this race back to competitive status.

Michael Bitzer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we had not passed Dodd-Frank, you would have had significant set of collapses of financial institutions making things worse, people would lose money and the system would shut down.

Barney FrankBut Frank

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The core PCE decline reflects some big collapses in the prices of a limited number of the most-affected services.

Andrew Hunter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The very tools that we need to use to get control, to make sure that buildings aren't burned and the rule of law collapses are those very institutional tools that have led to that grief and pain. I understand clearly there is no trust in many of our communities. And the differentiation between the Minneapolis police department that we witness losing trust of those that are there to serve is very difficult for people to make for those standing up here with me. I understand that.

Tim Walz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The very tools that we need to use to get control, to make sure that buildings aren't burned and the rule of law collapses, are those very institutional tools that have led to that grief and pain, i understand clearly there is no trust in many of our communities, and the differentiation between the Minneapolis Police Department that we witnessed losing trust of those they are there to serve is very difficult for people to make.

Tim Walz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The global decline of coal and power sector emissions is good news for the climate, but governments have to dramatically accelerate the electricity transition so that global coal generation collapses throughout the 2020s, to switch from coal into gas is just swapping one fossil fuel for another.

Dave Jones

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We live in a stable world led by dollar settlement. How should we respond if such a foundation collapses and if (China's move) gives rise to a struggle for currency supremacy? japan should work in close coordination with the United States.

Akira Amari

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Building collapses don't only happen in Cambodia ... they happen elsewhere ... including in the United States.

Hun Sen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If risk appetite collapses due to fears of worsening Middle East tensions in the wake of any retaliation to the...attacks, some emerging markets could face a double whammy of pressures.

Mitul Kotecha

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[G]overnment theft of private money and redistribution by a government elite is communism not democracy. ... Communism has already been tried for over 70 years, and it doesn't work because people work to support themselves, not their neighbors. When the rewards are confiscated and redistributed to others, people produce less or stop producing altogether. The quantity of "goods in common" declines until the system finally collapses and everybody is hungry, not just "the poor." Then totalitarianism steps in to force people to produce ask the Russians, the Poles, the Estonians).

Don Hull

added by Normando
4 years ago

Large platforms have collapsed in the past. What is not known if the collapses were gradual or instantaneous, like the ones we are seeing today.

Shelley MacDonell

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is happening at the time he just landed the contract of his life, which could have kept his family secure, he worked hard to get there, to have such an opportunity in a big league. And then suddenly, everything collapses.

Thomas Toure

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My bias is that it is silly to play in 100 degree temperatures, the risk of heat stroke, collapse on the court, acute kidney injury and a serious fall as one collapses from the heat are just not worth it. Why not postpone for a few days, play only at night or play in closed air conditioned stadiums when available?

Robert Glatter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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