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I crumbled.
So, the rest, after that, next, everything crumbled down and we know the rest.
It broke up through atmospheric pressure, it crumbled, and then the pieces fell apart and did some damage.
And the briquettes crumbled a little bit and we lost energy as they fell apart as they were cooking.
And as sunken skyscrapers add crumbled concrete to the new forest floor, the soil acidity plummets, potentially allowing new plant life to thrive.
I had felt as if the inner scaffolding that had held me together since my diagnosis had suddenly crumbled.
I purchased this film for $5 in a bargain bin at my local video store for one reason only, Chase Masterson, but I should have crumbled up the five, thrown it in a toilet and flushed.
The movie gains intensity because of the challenge Keiko presents to Yamashita's crumbled self, and some of his scenes of self-questioning are rewarding, but in the end I think movie is too sloppy and inconsequent.
A US veto of a Security Council resolution – supported by the Council’s 14 other members – to oppose Israeli settlements seemed to signal that Obama had crumbled under pressure from America’s pro-Israel lobby.
When his regime crumbled, so did America’s ability to realize its interests there.
When output crumbled due to a profound banking and financial crisis (linked to the collapse of the gold standard), tax revenues plummeted in the US and Europe, and conservative governments tried to cut budget spending to limit budget deficits.
Fiscal Apocalypse NowAs support for President George W. Bush in the United States has crumbled over the past year, perhaps the most surprising element is the revolt of economists and observers of economic policy.
Their case for small-government libertarianism rested largely on those claims, and has now largely crumbled, because the world, it turned out, disagreed with them about how it works.
Indeed, the wall of fear has crumbled, the people have spoken, and an “Arab spring” could be at hand.
The illusion of “Paris on the Nile” crumbled.
The post-Ottoman order that emerged a century ago – an order based on secular Arab nationalism – has already crumbled.
As the Soviet Union crumbled and Yeltsin’s new, independent Russian government attempted radical reform, the G7 countries’ sent a bunch of deputy finance ministers to Moscow to insist that Soviet era debts be honored.
Despite initial progress, eradication programs crumbled as donors, governments, and populations grew tired and turned their attention elsewhere, allowing malaria to resurge to devastating levels.
But then the financial system crumbled growth rates fell like a ton of bricks.
But empires have crumbled; tyrants have passed away; and their executioners have fallen into the dustbins of history.
The process fed on its own success, and, as the Soviet Union crumbled, it received a powerful boost from the prospect of German reunification.
The post-Soviet economy crumbled, crime skyrocketed, and life expectancy declined.
As the first two justifications crumbled in the wake of the 2003 invasion, the administration increasingly emphasized the importance of democracy, both in Iraq and in the broader Middle East, as a rationale for what it was doing.
The problem is that these favorable attitudes vary considerably in intensity and constitute a “soft bloc” of support for the EU; in the 2008 referendum, this soft bloc crumbled in the final week of the campaign.
Established companies crumbled.
Whatever economic projects have been launched has crumbled in the face of the persistence of the occupation.
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Western powers launched a self-aggrandizing project to redraw the region’s map, installing regimes, creating dependencies, establishing spheres of influence, and securing access to increasingly important supplies of oil.
This view crumbled with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
More broadly, the institutional architecture that once underpinned job creation crumbled during this period.
American hegemony crumbled, and the world gradually got used to speaking the language of multipolarity.