If the forest disappears, the sky will collapse, and the living beings would die out.
Most companies die relatively slow deaths, rather than suffering a sudden collapse; assorted issues gradually drain the enterprise of life, and its leadership of hope.
They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you're breathing through a drinking straw.
Swayed on his feet like he was going to collapse.
Inflation (and deflation) won't rear its ugly head Surging oil production — along with slower global growth — has caused the price of petroleum to collapse from more than $100 a barrel last summer to barely $50 a barrel at the end of 2014.
The most important reason is the collapse in oil prices, particularly since these higher prices are in large part due to enhanced supply.
He died on December 15, 1966 of acute circulatory collapse.
Yet in fact, computer collapse the distances and demolishes all boundaries.
A large Rosneft rouble bond deal earlier this month was criticised by some in Moscow as having helped to precipitate the rouble's collapse last week.
The European Central Bank brought the euro back from the brink of collapse under the leadership of Mario Draghi, who spent the bulk of his career in academia and public service.
The largest such issue equivalent to $250bn, and suggested by the G20 in April 2009 was an enlightened response to the dramatic collapse in international private lending after the global financial crisis.
The virtual collapse of the company destroyed his career, and was a stark case study of how real companies cannot prosper simply by sacking staff, using bullish accounting policies and playing M&A games.
It is in danger and it will collapse when we get to you.
Promoting manga, anime cartoons and other aspects of Japanese pop culture, it's an initiative that came about when Japan's perennially uncool bureaucrats had a vision that cultural exports could help plug the economic gap created by the near collapse of Japan Inc in the 1990s.
We'd all be in a state of collapse every time we opened a newspaper.
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close--let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
The boy's mother's one casual motion had tremendously hurt her son's frail heart unwittingly, making his inner mental world collapse in a second!
Most casualties result from partial building collapse and falling objects and debris, like toppling chimneys, falling bricks, ceiling plaster, and light fixtures.
Officials worry another section of the mountainside could collapse.
It was a long, violent battle, and finally the giant got the upper hand, and knocked Death down with his fist, causing him to collapse by a stone.
