Strongly against the national bank, he vetoed the renewal of its charter and ensured its collapse.

In either case the earth becomes weakened by its cracks and hills collapse, causing earthquakes.

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

Botswana still struggles to seal its border from thousands of Zimbabweans who flee economic collapse and political persecution.

After the collapse of the Warsaw pact, Bulgaria lost the ability to acquire cheap fuel and spares for its military.

" Nevertheless, although the war dragged on for years, the Battle of Blenheim was probably its most decisive victory ; Marlborough and Eugene, working indivisibly together, had saved the Habsburg Empire and thereby preserved the Grand Alliance from collapse.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

The consequent severe operational disruption to the national network and the company's spiralling costs set in motion the series of events which resulted in the ultimate collapse of the company and its replacement with Network Rail, a state-regulated, not-for-dividend company.

Because of this property, the collapsed stars were called " frozen stars ," because an outside observer would see the surface of the star frozen in time at the instant where its collapse takes it inside the Schwarzschild radius.

James Corum states a prevalent myth about the Luftwaffe and its blitzkrieg operations is that it had a doctrine of terror bombing, in which civilians were deliberately targeted in order to break the will or aid the collapse of an enemy.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

The city, and the Empire, would ultimately fall to the Ottomans by 1453, but its enduring legacy had provided Europe centuries of resurgence following the collapse of Rome.

The central uplift is not the result of elastic rebound, which is a process in which a material with elastic strength attempts to return to its original geometry ; rather the collapse is a process in which a material with little or no strength attempts to return to a state of gravitational equilibrium.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

Let it go beyond a certain point, and it will tend for a time to gain strength from its own development as its effects spread and return to intensify the process of collapse ”.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the growing Islamist trend in Palestinian society during the 1990s sapped the party of much of its popularity and resources.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

In many-worlds, the subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence, which resolves all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox and Schrödinger's cat, since every possible outcome of every event defines or exists in its own " history " or " world ".

Wadi in Makhtesh Ramon, Israel, showing gravity collapse erosion on its banks.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

Einstein asks what makes each electron's wave front " collapse " at its respective location.

Wavefunction collapse can be viewed as an epiphenomenon of quantum decoherence, which in turn is nothing more than an effect of the underlying local time evolution of the wavefunction of a system and all of its environment.

The theory of bandwagoning provided support for the idea that if the U. S. was not able to provide strong and credible support for the anti-communist positions of its allies, NATO and the U. S .- Japan alliance could collapse.

Pasley continued: `` They became an institution of the Chicago scene and marked the way to the moral and financial collapse of the municipal and county governments in 1928-29 ''.

Confucius ( 6th c. BCE ) famously emphasized the moral commitment implicit in a name, ( zhengming ) stating that the moral collapse of the pre-Qin was a result of the failure to rectify behaviour to meet the moral commitment inherent in names: " Good government consists in the ruler being a ruler, the minister being a minister, the father being a father, and the son being a son ...

In 1984, the Vatican Bank agreed to pay US $ 224 million to the 120 creditors of the failed Banco Ambrosiano as a “ recognition of moral involvement ” in the bank's collapse.

He was, according to Whitehouse, " more than anybody else [...] responsible for the moral collapse in this country ".

For example, words to use against opponents include decay, failure ( fail ), collapse ( ing ), deeper, crisis, urgent ( cy ), destructive, destroy, sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, they / them, unionized bureaucracy, " compassion " is not enough, betray, consequences, limit ( s ), shallow, traitors, sensationalists ; words to use in defining a candidate's own campaign and vision included share, change, opportunity, legacy, challenge, control, truth, moral, courage, reform, prosperity, crusade, movement, children, family, debate, compete, active ( ly ), we / us / our, candid ( ly ), humane, pristine, provide.

Although central banks may appear to control inflation, through periodic bank rescues and other means, they may inadvertently be forced to increase the money supply ( and thereby debase the currency ) to save the banking system from bankruptcy or collapse during periodic bank runs, thereby inducing moral hazard in the financial system, making the system susceptible to economic bubbles.

More saw the loss of Christian culture as entailing intellectual as well as moral collapse.

In all the literature that derives from the Second World War, there is no other book that so brilliantly or so woundingly present triumphant American innocence against the background of the European experience of destruction and moral collapse.

28 ) showing what will happen to Israel ( Anglo-Saxons, USA ) in the Later days when they got wealthy and lifted up, these prophecies show a moral degeneracy, leading to a fall, collapse and being taken into captivity by Babylon ( Rome ) and Assyria ( Germany ), to once and for all being delivered by the Messiah, along with Judah ( The Jews )

According to Ritter, World War I had caused a general collapse in moral values throughout the West, and it was this moral degeneration that led to the decline of Christianity, the rise of materialism, political corruption, the eclipse of civilization by barbarism, and demagogic politics that in turn led to National Socialism.

Historians judge that " the moral collapse of British rule in Southeast Asia came not at Singapore, but at Penang "

They argue that such a moral economy is essential if we are to avoid systemic collapse as our growth economy outstrips the Earth's limited ability to recycle our waste, and as the Earth's inventory of critical raw materials and minerals is used up, in the face of growing population and growing affluence within those populations.

George Orwell, always hostile to pacifism, accused the PPU of " moral collapse " after Dick Sheppard's death in October 1937 on the grounds of its links with the BUF.

Important contemporary writers expressed admiration of the author ’ s literary work and his moral stand before and after the collapse of communism: the Nobel laureates Heinrich Böll, Günther Grass, Octavio Paz, Orhan Pamuk, as well as Philip Roth, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, E. M. Cioran, Antonio Munoz Molina, Cynthia Ozick, Louis Begley and others.

Michael Atkinson, the film critic for The Village Voice, liked the film and wrote, " This forgotten, saber-toothed 1962 AIP cheapie might be the most expressive on-the-ground nightmare of the Cold War era, providing a template not only for countless social-breakdown genre flicks ( most particularly, Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf ) but also for authentic crisis — shades of New Orleans haunt its DVD margins ... the movie is nevertheless an anxious, detail-rich essay on moral collapse.

Nietzsche argued that Christian theism as a belief system had been a moral foundation of the Western world, and that the rejection and collapse of this foundation as a result of modern thinking ( the death of God ) would naturally cause a rise in nihilism or the lack of values.

The collapse of Russia in the February Revolution resulted in a loss of institutional authority in Finland and the dissolution of the police force, creating fear and uncertainty.

This was followed by a collapse of the monarchy and restoration under Casimir I. Casimir's son Bolesław II the Bold became fatally involved in a conflict with the ecclesiastical authority, and was expelled from the country.

In 1814, the government of Sultan Mahmud II took advantage of local disturbances to reassert their direct authority and held it until the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

In western Europe, with the collapse of Roman imperial authority, medicine became localised ; folk-medicine supplemented what remained of the medical knowledge of antiquity.

Saxons, along with Angles, Frisians and Jutes, invaded or migrated to the island of Great Britain ( Britannia ) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.

Following the collapse of Roman authority in Western Europe, invading Saxon and Viking armies used it.

The following ( and current ) Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouite Dynasty which came to power in 1659, appears to have continued to exercise some degree of sovereignty over the modern Western Sahara, although the slow collapse of central authority through the 19th century, which ended in European colonial rule, no doubt attenuated that.

The approaching collapse of the Western Empire gave Leo a further opportunity to appear as the representative of lawful authority.

The economy expanded during the 12th century, based mostly on the lucrative herring-trade, but the 13th century turned into a period of difficulty and saw the temporary collapse of royal authority.

After the collapse of the kingdom of Arthedain, Bree continued to thrive without any central authority or government for many centuries.

In 1141 Stephen was captured following the battle of Lincoln, causing a collapse in his authority over most of the country.

Once the bubble bursts, the fall in prices causes the collapse of unsustainable investment schemes ( especially speculative and / or Ponzi investments, but not exclusively so ), which leads to a crisis of consumer ( and investor ) confidence that may result in a financial panic and / or financial crisis ; if there is monetary authority like a central bank, it may be forced to take a number of measures in order to soak up the liquidity in the financial system or risk a collapse of its currency.

If so, it apparently had not been sufficiently marked as a hospital ship, perhaps owing to the chaos surrounding the collapse of military and civilian authority in Nazi Germany.

After the Qing Dynasty's collapse, decentralization of authority and improved transportation and communication technologies allowed both the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists to rapidly relocate capitals and keep their leadership structures intact during the great crisis of Japanese invasion.

* With the collapse of the Somalian central government, groups of rival warlords constituted the only form of authority in some parts of the country.

That heritage can be discerned in language, incorporating shards of the Roman past, in architecture, in the emerging Romanesque ( Norman ) architecture, and in a new feudal structure erected as a bulwark against the chaos that overtook the Continent following the collapse of Roman authority and the subsequent Dark Ages.

This event marked the collapse of imperial authority in Wei, as Cao Fang's role had been reduced to a puppet ruler while Sima Yi wielded state power firmly in his hands.

Umm el-Marra probably had three to five thousand inhabitants between 2800 BCE and about 2100 / 2000 BCE, when Tuba and other cities in the Jabbul Plain experienced a mysterious collapse of central authority that lasted about 200 years.

Dated to 1650 by leading authority Stanley Freese, Lacey Green windmill is the oldest surviving smock mill in England and was restored from a state of almost total collapse by volunteers under the auspices of the Chiltern Society.

The last three months of the year were marked by a vacuum of power ; political authority was in a state of collapse, yet the victors chose not to impose their rule.

After the death of Arnulf and the collapse of Carolingian authority in Rome, Lambert entered the city and forced Stephen to convene the Cadaver Synod, both to re-assert his claim to the imperial crown, and perhaps also to exact posthumous revenge upon Formosus.

In 1810, upon the collapse of the Spanish Empire in Colombia, provincial juntas soon arose to challenge the political authority of the national government in Bogotá ; yet six years later, in 1816, the royalist armies of Count Pablo Morillo restored Spanish rule to Colombia.

According to Smith, it was to this kind of gynarchy that " Kong ascribed ... the general collapse of society " and Kong believed that men in Jiangnan tended to " forfeit ... authority to women.