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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.
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.
Hymenium ribbed, of a tough, fleshy substance, rather rigid, then collapsing and flocculent.
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.
" He led me into a corner and conducted me up a flight of stairs,-which appeared to me to be slowly collapsing into sawdust, so that one of those days the upper lodgers would look out at their doors and find themselves without the means of coming down,-to a set of chambers on the top floor.
It's the only thing that kept us from collapsing into racial factionalism and civil war.
' " President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, where another collapsing currency and hyperinflation provoked food riots this week in the capital, Harare, was accused in neighboring South Africa of being the sole cause of his own misfortunes.
"Not everyone in Calcutta, or India for that matter, is unanimous in praising the nun, whose organization was able to raise millions of dollars worldwide but made virtually no significant changes in the social structure of this collapsing city's poor neighborhoods.
As longtime tabloid readers know, the reason for the mask is that after innumerable surgeries, Jackson's nose is collapsing like an El Niño-soaked hillside.
Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose .
When you see this snake swallow Jon Voight and then regurgitate him in front of Jennifer Lopez like a cat presenting a dead bird, when you see Voight give a little ironic wink before collapsing to the floor and dying in a puddle of digestive slime, you are witnessing one of those classic I-Don't-Think-So moments that help define the contemporary moviegoing experience.
txt Yugo Home Ever since the United States began contemplating doing something about war and ethnic cleansing in the collapsing state of Yugoslavia in 1991, all sides have invoked history as a guide to action.
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