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A section of the old walls collapsed, but even in their death throes they proved formidable.
The diaphragm is completely collapsed, the rib cage is squeezed in, and mentally, there is something going on as well.
And, as it collapsed, like that ice skater pulling her arms in, the spin got faster and faster.
So, when you see a spinning storm on a weather report, think about this: The spin ultimately came from the spin of the Earth, and the Earth's spin is a remnant, a fossil relic, of the gentle spin of the cloud of dust and gas that collapsed to make the Earth some five billion years ago.
When the slave trade was finally outlawed in the Americas and Europe, the African kingdoms whose economies it had come to dominate collapsed, leaving them open to conquest and colonization.
As a result, 18th century fabric factory workers were often poisoned, and women in green dresses reportedly collapsed from exposure to arsenic on their skin.
In that case, the Voynich manuscript might be like the rongorongo script invented on Easter Island, now unreadable after the culture that made it collapsed.
The cod population off Canada's East Coast collapsed in the 1990s, intense recreational and commercial fishing has decimated goliath grouper populations in South Florida, and most populations of tuna have plummeted by over 50%, with the Southern Atlantic bluefin on the verge of extinction.
My team essentially collapsed 30 years of this type of research into one exciting experiment, conducted over just three months.
As soon as I walked through the door, I collapsed.
And in those 3,000 messages between us, we collapsed time; we queered it; we laid it all on the table.
Well after the house has collapsed and there's nothing there, the glass tiles will still be there.
We took their three legs, we collapsed them down as one.
In 2015, two dams collapsed at an iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the country.
And when the Western Roman Empire collapsed, cheesemaking continued to evolve in the manors that dotted the medieval European countryside.
I mean, when I was a first-year student in law school, my mom's business had collapsed, so I was supporting her.
In 1916, she collapsed while giving a suffrage speech and died soon after.
The problem is obviously relevant to our situation today, because today as well, there are some societies that have already collapsed, such as Somalia and Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
There's no more food and the bacteria have collapsed.
He collapsed, killed by the shock.
Banks collapsed, global stock markets lost nearly half their value, millions and millions of people lost their homes to foreclosure.
Some of the scientists believe that the way the Solar System formed, that the Sun when it collapsed and actually created the Sun, a lot of the dust around it created rings and then the particles in those rings accumulated together, and they formed bigger rocks, and then that's how the planets, you know, were formed.
You see here there's an elephant named Eleanor who came one day with bruised legs, and she collapsed.
And she did succeed, but then Eleanor collapsed again.
Eleanor collapsed again, and unfortunately, she did die.
Suddenly, she collapsed, became unresponsive, and had profuse uterine bleeding.
Billions of years ago and billions of light-years away, the material at the center of a galaxy collapsed towards a supermassive black hole.
And the price of plastic, minuscule that it was, collapsed.
The robot collapsed with a thunderous crash, and the Argonauts were free to travel home.
My left lung had collapsed when I was born.
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