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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment.
Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.
This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.
When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.
Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground
If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.
Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I'd be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I'd get dizzy spells.
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis and even a collapse if the U.K. left.
Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.
Most people heard about Bitcoin for the first time in the context of the Mt. Gox collapse. It is our Lehman Brothers.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.
Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't push and prod people along.
