Now in Bulgaria this photograph was taken in Bulgaria when communism collapsed all over Eastern Europe, it wasn't just communism it was the state that collapsed as well.

Many of those so affected have been abandoned to their fate and remain in a collapsed and ungovernable state.

And they haven't collapsed.

A bike path collapsed in Rio.

The building of a new economy that is viable in the global economy implies, first, the provision of financial and economic intensive care for the collapsed State.

The modern healthcare sector has totally collapsed.

Hearing the sad news, she collapsed in tears.

An elevated seaside bike path collapsed in Rio.

My left lung had collapsed when I was born.

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Thousands of buildings collapsed and 2.4 million people were affected.

They then re collapsed into another generation of stars and planets.

We've all seen the photos of the collapsed buildings in Haiti.

In Somalia, the central government collapsed and clan warfare broke out.

All this has to be seen in the context of a health system that has collapsed in the wake of the collapse of the Congolese State, so that medical care is virtually non existent.

That arises from the idea of a collapsed, failed or enfeebled State and from a supposed right of the international community to determine the nature of the institutions that need to be built as alternatives for a State that has been stigmatized as having failed and being incapable of carrying out basic State functions.

After the country reported very impressive statistics on telephones, the country collapsed.

But you see here a big table coral that died and collapsed.

Two persons were killed when an elevated bike path collapsed in Rio.

In the Forces nouvelles controlled area, the judicial system has completely collapsed.

He came to the sideline and just kind of collapsed there, Reed said.

While it persisted, expenditures swelled but were manageable until, suddenly, energy prices collapsed. The Kremlin, devoted to its key fetish Putin s approval ratings proved completely unprepared to curtail public spending in the wake of falling state revenues.

It all collapsed in the 80s and the 90s 35,000 people lost their jobs.

He's collapsed in the snow here. Everything is quiet, there's very little red anywhere.

As trade links with the former Soviet world collapsed, most of these giant firms collapsed. Starting almost from an economic point zero, Latvian entrepreneurs have built a new and modern economy, based on new and efficient technologies.

Social services and infrastructure have largely collapsed owing to a lack of resources for their upkeep.

The city of Palu, which has more than 380,000 people, was strewn with debris from collapsed buildings.

But the truth is we're way too efficient at catching them, and their stocks have collapsed worldwide.

Have you asked yourselves why and how so many dictatorships have collapsed over the last 30 years?

Nugroho described the damage as extensive and said thousands of houses, hospitals, shopping malls and hotels had collapsed.

Because if there had been, they would have collapsed under the gravitational pull into a huge black hole.

It has retreated from them since it nearly collapsed eight years ago and had to be bailed out.

But there are many wonders back in there, like this weird fungus on some of the collapsed timbers.

On September 29, 2018, in Palu, Indonesia, a bridge damaged by the earthquake and tsunami collapsed into several sections.

Maybe they started as stars and collapsed to two black holes each one 10 times the mass of the Sun.

He said he had gotten lost in the storm, collapsed in the snow, and just laid there, unable to move.

The financial house of cards collapsed. But Britain remains attracted to something else, and so unwilling to engage in voice.

While modernizing the non viable economies of collapsed States, we must also set in motion a process of political reconstruction.

People began to figure out, in the Sichuan Provence, that the reason so many school buildings had collapsed because tragically the earthquake happened during a school day the reason so many school buildings collapsed is that corrupt officials had taken bribes to allow those building to be built to less than code.

Eritrea is in the grip of a repressive regime and Libya has become a collapsed state. Add to that weak or non existent governance in much of Africa (and the concomitant security threats and bleak economic prospects), and it is difficult to imagine how the tide of migrants will be slowed.

The financial crisis forced sovereign states to substitute their own credit for the credit that had collapsed, and in Europe each state had to do so on its own, calling into question the creditworthiness of European government bonds. Risk premiums widened, and the eurozone was divided into creditor and debtor countries.

Liu Yifei, meanwhile, revealed that while acting her character in the movie, she cried so much that she collapsed at one point.

We also got some bad news in the storm that Beck Weathers, another climber, had collapsed in the snow and was dead.

No one can say how Europe would have evolved without the euro. Would the fixed exchange rate system have endured or collapsed?

Aerial photographs released by the disaster agency showed many buildings and shops destroyed, bridges twisted and collapsed and a mosque surrounded by water.