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In 2003, the concrete shield thrown up to block radiation escaping the Chernobyl nuclear power station after it exploded in 1986 was collapsing and needed urgent reinforcement.

History shows that states are unstable entities, usually collapsing as a result of internal conflict or external invasion.

Firefighters had to abandon their efforts to fight the fire because the building was in danger of collapsing.

He has a lot of pain in his feet because his arches are collapsing.

The stem is rather long, nearly equal, about the color of the cap, dotted both above the ring and below it; the ring is membranaceous, quite variable and persistent, usually collapsing as a narrow ring on the stem.

Entirely resupinate, hymenium soft and fleshy when moist, collapsing when dry, often cracked.

Effused on elder bark, white, continuous when growing, when dry cracked or flocculose and collapsing.

Hymenium ribbed, of a tough, fleshy substance, rather rigid, then collapsing and flocculent.

"Collapsing Puff-Ball.

" Peridium flaccid above, with mealy coating, obtuse, at length collapsing, the sterile stratum cellulose.

Inner peridium distinct from the outer all round; capillitium nearly free, collapsing when mature, threads long and brittle; spores dingy olive, turning brown; base stem-like, broad and blunt, with root, obconical, somewhat spongy.

The calyx is five-cleft; and it possesses such a power of collapsing over the ovary, that when the stem of the plant is struck sharply with a hard substance, every open flower is forced off by the sudden closing of its calyx.

The story is probably apocryphal (although quite plausible) of the young man who, engaged in animated, and apparently rather excited conversation with several ladies, caught his trunk-hose in a nail, and let out the bran, the hose collapsing suddenly, to the consternation of their wearer and the corresponding amusement of the ladies.

The trench appeared to be on the point of collapsing and falling in on them.

Mr Power, collapsing in laughter, shaded his face from the window as the carriage passed Gray's statue.

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