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The moment the earthquake started, buildings collapsed, water mains broke, and a huge fire broke out that spread rapidly across the city.

Fan went door when I stopped and watched the door has collapsed yesterday, reminds me of that war, that the market for Fan Daughter of war.

Xian's wife was just ahead of him, crossing the threshold of their house when the frame collapsed. She was killed instantly.

He stared at her, so she apologized , and a softening, he collapsed completely, in particular, her tears Ningmou.

American financial institutions were barred from dealing with the bank, which has collapsed as a result of the investigation.

The little chair collapsed when my uncle sat down on it.

One day, while he was sitting at the foot of a wall, the wall collapsed on top of him.

"A large crack appears in the wall of the Yushu Hotel, and part of a government office building also collapsed, " he said.

In 2002 an ice shelf the size of Rhode Island, which had been stable for at least 10, 000 years, collapsed in just three weeks.

Swanson crawled out of the van, took a few steps and collapsed, feeling their hands grab him before he hit the ground.

The day before, at Hanwang, he found an elderly man still in the ruins of his collapsed home, weeping as he tried to dig out objects.

Tons of paper had flown through the air when the towers collapsed. Some of it had been blown through the broken windows of nearby buildings.

And I have been a wall of his house "walls" to hinder the feelings, and finally that day, "the wall" collapsed.

He said rocks were strewn all over the place, and theravine was "just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire" .

The defense effort would have practically collapsed if men had been allowed to go home at the end of their one-year term.

"Well, so far no houses have collapsed, " she said with a wry laugh.

Meanwhile rescue teams are still trying to reach dozens of people believed to be trapped in a collapsed block of flats in Concepcion.

A company co-founder said the need for such a service had collapsed amid the economic downturn.

The guide used to carry him over the mountains if one of them collapsed, as they often did.

Construction cranes are being used to remove heavy parts of the collapsed roof, but snow is still falling heavily, hampering operations.

She said he walked into the police station and then he collapsed at the custody desk.

"When I sat down on my bed to take a rest, it collapsed, " Kumar was quoted as saying by the Times of India newspaper.

In the court next to me was a man whose business collapsed not long ago, after it had borrowed billions of pounds.

When he was just a child have the last time out, North Hongran wall collapsed, the dust stirred up by Tong Shi Meng-an .

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Dear Mother, I rescued a girl who collapsed in the forest. I was hoping for a wife, but she turned out to be a man!

Indeed, most of the business that has now collapsed was part of a big bubble anyway, which had to burst at some point.

The international banking system would have collapsed if the authorities had not banded together to save it.

A women is dug out of her collapsed apartment block after being trapped for 10 hours. She calls out for her mother, who was injured.

An Associated Press Television News cameraman said some buildings collapsed in Santiago and power was out in parts of the city.

The roof of much of the building seems to have collapsed.

An ICRC report said the territory's economy and infrastructure had collapsed since the Israeli military offensive in Gaza six months ago.

His whole family were all completely caught up in a football game when the building collapsed.

If one of them collapsed, as they often did, the guide used to carry him over the mountains.

But when a big customer refused to pay for a major project it had commissioned, his partner took another job and the company collapsed.

"If the market hadn't collapsed, " he said, "this would have been a great building for someone to buy. "

And so it began to pile up until one day I collapsed from the strain of it, becoming an empty shell, a parody of who I used to be.

New contract talks between Sereni and Lazio have collapsed and Milan are ready to offer him a deal to become understudy to Dida next season.

Enron itself, along with a host of other firms, collapsed in 2004 because accounting standards had not been enforced adequately.

And on Thursday, a man I was interviewing was struck in the head by an assassin's bullet and collapsed at my feet.

She also wept as she described how a school for handicapped and deaf students collapsed while the children were in class.

His knees began to buckle and she braced herself as he collapsed into her arms. They both tumbled to the ground.

With that bit Dutch courage, he gave the wall several punches. Then he collapsed, half awake and half asleep, trembling with pain.

But Mr Castro stopped trying to overthrow Latin American governments more than two decades ago, shortly before his Soviet sponsor collapsed.

The actual debt repayment ability of the U. S. has already collapsed, ' he said.

There followed a gurgling sound as his lungs collapsed and, for about a minute, an animal-like noise issued from the back of his throat.

Crews worked late into the night trying to free six college students from beneath the rubble of their collapsed dormitory.

Bear Stearns collapsed largely because other institutions stopped doing business with it, fearing it might be in trouble.

His mother is safe, he says, but most of the rooms in his house have collapsed ? the house the family spent thousands of dollars improving.

Salehi said this: "Currently, the U. S. allies in the region have collapsed, these countries are trying to distance the United States. "

In London, the top floors of a building under renovation collapsed, trapping a construction worker in the rubble.

If one of the big four international accounting firms collapsed, some large quoted companies might be stuck without an alternative.

A few hours later officers raided the nearby home of his mother, who collapsed and died during the raid.

Wrongly assuming that she was dehydrated, she chugged down a sports drink. She promptly collapsed and was later declared brain-dead.

Some pocketed immense bonuses when they falsely appeared to be doing well, and then kept much of the loot when their firms collapsed.

It was as if I had no power over my life as it collapsed before my eyes.

He confirmed that the main prison had collapsed, but that didn't seem to be the greatest concern at this point.

The old woman's face collapsed a bit more, if that were possible and her hands trembled as she put the can back on the shelf.

Many had to be carried or helped away from the five hour party and the police stepped in to help one party-goer who collapsed on a verge.

Across town, her home had collapsed upon her husband. "I couldn't accept that he was gone. Every man I saw looked like him, " she said.

After checking into a motel room in Beaver, the exhausted trucker collapsed on the bed in his sooty clothes and phoned his wife.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it suddenly became obvious that the USSR had never been a proper country.

Will's energy shield vanished, and the front of his MJOLNIR armor melted. He took a step toward the beast, and collapsed.

Raffaele Palladino's move to Genoa seems to have collapsed with reports that the player has turned down the transfer.

This feature led to massive losses and would have done so, according to one CDO investor, even if the housing market had not collapsed.

I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life.

World trade collapsed and, for five years in a row, there was no way out of the spider's web.

Then, just as suddenly, it all collapsed around him, in a whirl of failed productions and very public sex scandals.

Brenda collapsed yesterday afternoon yet she was as right as nine pence when I saw her that morning.

Rescue workers said the narrow road near the building collapsed, leading to large-scale lifting equipment can not be brought into the scene.

He was a teenager working in a factory where part of the building collapsed, lucky to be alive.

On a national scale, the U. S. economy may be taking a hit, but it has far from collapsed.

We did not have to fight the Soviets. Even though they were a nuclear power they collapsed and disintegrated.

Witnesses said the building collapsed, the construction workers are stamped floors.

The jump, he said, began around the time Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, when anxiety about money started to rise.

But those trenches easily collapsed, and after an hour of heated battle you would not tell that there was a defensive position there.

Rescue workers carried the body of a woman from beneath a collapsed building in the town.

But Wilson's hope that World War I would be the "war to end war" collapsed soon after, with the outbreak of new fighting in Europe.

Rob would have walked in to the dressing room, felt everybody looking at him, and thought the world has collapsed around him.

He walked us to Gaddafi's room and I collapsed on the couch, profusely thanking him for lodging us in the best room.

Most of the building collapsed about two hours after the fire began, leaving only a brick wall and two towers standing at the main entrance.

A year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, a think-tank has warned the lessons of the crisis have not been learned.

When school buildings collapsed in Sichuan in the 2008 earthquake, the victims tended to be the children of poorer families.

While it did not suffer a western-style financial crisis, it was hit hard by the second-order effects, as exports suddenly collapsed.

Parts of many of the ancient churches and castles in and around the city have collapsed.

More than 120, 000 homes have also collapsed, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MOCA) is trying to help affected people.

By the fall of 2008, the United States will have collapsed as a world power, and no longer exist as an independent nation.

Through the past few days they had seen it all, houses collapsed, trees uprooted, grain spoiled, and this was just one more blow.

Mosques and churches often perform the duties of a state that has all but collapsed in many parts of the country.

His only child, an 18-year-old son, was taking a nap inside when the entire building collapsed on top of him.

Caracas, Venezuela: A man puts his hand on a crack in the wall as he inspects his partially collapsed house following a landslide.

I grind one of its face yesterday, but I can't see it has been collapsed before, but I discover its Damascus veins.

Yesterday his house was a pile of rubble: collapsed walls and the occasional piece of furniture exposed to the sky.

While the filling itself did not fail in these vertebrae, the cancellous bone around the cement collapsed progressively.

Some of al-Zeidi's relatives collapsed after the ruling was issued and had to be helped out of the courthouse.

Yet the writing was on the wall at Yahoo the moment a search deal with Google collapsed this month.

His mother's second marriage collapsed, but not before her husband took possession of most of her wealth.

As he collapsed into the swivel chair facing my desk, his momentum swung him halfway around before he could stop himself.

The next day we walked through entire neighborhoods of Tibetan-style houses that had collapsed into piles of mud bricks and wooden poles.

The house shuddered and collapsed, and then the little people discovered that they were disappearing into a swirl of leaves.

Through the emotional blur into which her thoughts had collapsed, she heard his voice break, and she was aware, dimly, of his pain.

The president might have watched helplessly as output and employment collapsed. The decades of Democratic dominance might not have happened.

Some cinder block walls appeared to have collapsed and most windows were shattered in the once gleaming residential block.

A man in a plaid shirt emerges from the folds of his collapsed tent and rolls up a foam mat.

On a vast scale, that's what would happen if the WAIS collapsed, and the direction of the sloshing would hit the U. S. especially hard.

The reverse problem applied during the 1980s: oil prices collapsed, but the expert consensus was that the price would recover soon.

if even a few firms in an industry were unwilling to cooperate ( as was almost always the case ) , the pool arrangements collapsed.

In this book, these three definitions have been collapsed into a single, all encompassing, definition of ICT.

As the cloud collapsed under its own weight and rotated faster, some material was spun into a doughnut-shaped disk.

Inneath the caller is heard to say Jackson collapsed and stop breathing, was being attended to by his personal doctor.

A black hole is a star that has collapsed into a tiny point known as a singularity.

Politically, he acknowledges, Beijing's leadership may not have had any other realistic choice when the developed world collapsed last fall.

However, the paper model by the children was askew, like those inferior building that collapsed in the earthquake.

Opposite the houses, surrounded by metal fencing, some of it collapsed, are the exposed foundations of houses never built.

Only after housing prices collapsed in 2008 did they discover that wealth on paper is not the same as money in the bank.

After all, a year ago, it was feared that if the banking system collapsed, the whole economy would break down.

Turkey for more than a year has mediated between Tel Aviv and Damascus. But efforts collapsed with the Israeli attack on Gaza.

slowly come out of the body consciousness and visualize your body lying on the ground completely collapsed.

There was a loud hissing noise as the bull worked its horns free. The tank collapsed like a deflated balloon .

According to one eyewitness, the wall of a mud compound then collapsed, burying a number of the American troops.

One of the two bridges that connect the main north-south highway along this long, thin Andean country collapsed during the earthquake.

You know they collapsed on the sofa again, a second time to have passed.

Many residents of spontaneous action, trying to search collapsed buildings for survivors under the rubble.

At once-proud Merrill Lynch, which collapsed into the arms of Bank of America, years of profits have been vaporized.

Claudia Castillo suffered a collapsed windpipe after a severe tuberculosis infection, and was barely able to breathe.

at least two victims pulled alive from the rubble and there may be others still trapped inside the World Trade Center's collapsed remains.

As if to amplify Hooper's complaint, a pedestrian bridge leading to Nehru stadium collapsed that same day.

A construction crane collapsed Friday on New York's Upper East Side, smashing into a 23-storey apartment building as it fell to the ground.

This woman's 16-year-old niece was one of hundreds of children killed when their school collapsed in the quake.

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One woman called a friend in another city to say she was now all alone, everyone she knew had been killed, and her house had collapsed .

As the economy collapsed there was not even sufficient paper or printing capacity to create the money.

We've collapsed that through technology to milliseconds, and that allows Peter to look at his brain in real time as he's inside the scanner.

Wessell revealed that after his arrest the children's father collapsed and was taken to hospital.

Public expectations went through the roof, just as the economy's capacity to meet them collapsed.

Many collapsed along the way; others never got to their feet again after nights spent in barns or leaning against a wall.

Seven women fleeing ahead of her disappeared as the staircase collapsed. Then the roof fell in, pinning her and her colleague under rubble.

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At least 16 people have been killed when a disused gold mine collapsed in central Ghana, local authorities say.

From what I saw on the scene, not only school buildings collapsed, but the surrounding houses as well.

The characteristic position of a collapsed tank is approximately inverted and usually within the area bounded by the foundations .

Chinese media reports Tuesday said he collapsed as government investigators were probing for details of the July 23 crash.

Lehman Brothers, the storied investment bank, collapsed into a court-protected reorganization unprepared to remain in business.

I cannot find my room; it has collapsed like a pack of cards. There is no furniture in the house.

Xinhua reported that at least 30 people were trapped when a dormitory building at the Yushu Ethnic Normal School collapsed.

Trade - deficit countries did not co-operate , with the result that international trade all but collapsed .

As he turned back the clock, the dust disk collapsed into a dense, bright ring.

I remember I used to help hold telephone almost collapsed, but eventually the hard weak, is to grasp their own.

One runner collapsed apparently struck by an object seconds later as terrified onlookers tried to get away.

Last August, as investors began to realize the scope of the mortgage mess, confidence in the financial system collapsed.

The payment of wages and pensions might have stopped and banks could have collapsed.

Others, in the buildings or on the streets as the towers collapsed are under so much debris that their bodies may not be found for months.

The folder that you selected at the beginning of this process will be collapsed.

a scaffold near ground zero collapsed on top of firefighters and construction workers today , injuring at least two people.

When the housing market collapsed, Citigroup suffered billions of dollars in losses that dwarfed the fees it had collected.

At least five people were killed and more than two dozen were injured as a section of the plant collapsed and burned.

The operator console as long as the adjustment of a few buttons, you can control the cutting, sewing, or collapsed.

The Russians, you see, thought they were going to be ruling the world by now, but then the oil price collapsed.

Moments later, a tremendous jolt knocked Zacharias off his feet, and the pier collapsed, spilling cars and people into the water.

Baghdad's envoy said the Iraqi National Museum lost some 15000 items due to looting after Saddam's regime collapsed.

The effluent poured out of a reservoir at the MAL aluminium plant in nearby Ajka on Monday, after a wall cracked and collapsed.

At the touch of a hand, it collapsed down to a flat, clean pocketable prism, beautifully finished in brushed chrome and leather.

America is right to argue that private-sector demand has collapsed, leaving the public sector as the engine of the economy.

Can be a blink of an eye, touches of mutual interests, friendship will be an instant Liang dump collapsed columns and float away.

Exhausted from a full week and dreading my departure the next morning, we collapsed onto the bed and looked at each other.

" I'm out! " she heard James shout a second later. But when she turned to her son, she collapsed, unable to move, her back on fire.

There, at his home, he was demonstrating to friends the experiment of light when he suddenly collapsed on his desk.

A few days after an appointment at which she had looked even wearier than usual, she collapsed.

When Lehman collapsed, so did confidence and bank liquidity, and this was the tipping point of the global collapse.

When the Deepwater Horizon sank, this riser collapsed and folded in on itself, but did not sheer off from the blowout preventer.

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Find it, have collapsed from the soil, either this was found, to borrow other people, this baby is likely to be lost or discarded.

Most of these ingredients are gone. The housing bubble has collapsed. The financial sector is in trouble. The construction boom is over.

If she had come into the room at that moment, all my plans for revenge would have collapsed, and I would have fallen at her feet.

So-called "crush margins" recovered almost as quickly as they had collapsed and the door was again shut to foreign investors.

At least 33 are dead in India after a 150-year-old footbridge collapsed onto railroad tracks, burying the train beneath tons of rock.

Slowly, he clawed his way out from under the collapsed building.

He was reaching for her hand when she suddenly stumbled and collapsed into his arms.

For a sense of scale, here's a shot of the kitty here laying down next to the collapsed cones.

The parking deck had to be removed after a section collapsed and made the building unsafe.

At 18. 4 million barrels, it was up on a year before, but comparisons with the month Lehman Brothers collapsed tend to flatter.

And then he just said he felt funny, and he just collapsed.

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I called her and she told me Helen had given birth to a boy - at 7. 51pm, just as I'd turned off my PC and collapsed in my chair.

The 71-year-old senator's campaign nearly collapsed, last year, when he almost ran out of money and was forced to layoff much of his staff.

That would have left him even more exposed if any of his borrowers' businesses collapsed.

"Shut up. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm going to teach you to walk. " I heaved him up again, and he collapsed.

The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the "triangles" you see formed.

Few buildings are left standing, and those that have not collapsed are unsound and will have to be knocked down.

Wu Yong, a local army commander, said the death toll could rise as lots of houses had collapsed.

Commercial agriculture, which had earned about 50% of Zimbabwe's foreign currency, collapsed.

As American diplomats were never able to overcome Chile's opposition, Wilson's plan for western hemispheric League of Nations collapsed.

But when the empire collapsed, Georgia descended into a near-failed state: dysfunctional and disfigured by banditry and ethnic conflict.

He was on the point of winning when he collapsed.

At least one shop in the area has collapsed while nine others have been partially damaged.

"I just started getting chest pains" and collapsed while out walking one night, she said.

Possible applications of snake robots include locating survivors in collapsed buildings after earthquakes or other natural disasters.

They were all racing toward aid workers who were delivering rice when the bridge collapsed.

There were no reported casualties but the front of the building had collapsed.

The Greek government, the only aid receiving euro zone country, that has not collapsed, is weak and vulnerable.

Coca-Cola's attempt to take over Chinese juice giant Huiyuan has collapsed after falling foul of the country's anti-competition laws.

The mud flowing relic was formed by the flood breaking out in the gouge with large amount of collapsed stones.

If this was a classic emerging market crisis, bonds would have dived, credit default swap spreads exploded, and the currency collapsed.

In early November, the drug firm's director of research collapsed over a microscope and died of a massive cerebral haemorrhage.

By noon, the soldiers soaked clothes, the march was also slow down the pace, several soldiers had collapsed and the weak side of the road.

It is also unfair on the Fed, which had to stand in place of America's collapsed shadow-banking system.

I collapsed back onto my pillow, gasping, my head spinning. Something tugged at my memory, elusive, on the edges.

The rest of them escaped to the city of Aphek, where the wall collapsed on twenty-seven thousand of them.

Although these two tyrants fought against a common foe, it was only a matter of time until their tenuous alliance collapsed.

Since then, the remotely controlled scouts have been deployed to mud slides, caved-in mines, and collapsed buildings around the world.

The price of 10-year bonds collapsed, yields soared, liquidity was sucked out of the system and the recovery stalled.

A man in his 70s was also pulled from a collapsed building in Sendai, a port town badly hit by the double disaster.

After Lehman collapsed last September, Barclays Bank and Nomura bought substantial parts of its business.

After first turning around to chase him, the 34-year-old then collapsed to the ground and was eventually stretchered off the field.

Moons massive enough for their surfaces to have collapsed into a spheroid are highlighted in light blue and bolded.

The system collapsed in 1971, mainly because America would not subordinate its domestic policies to the gold link.

A collapsed fuel tank may have to be replaced, depending on how the tank deforms.

The bottom two floors of the five-story school collapsed in the quake, leaving a squat, leaning wreck.

When Hitler came into power, the system of payments had collapsed and time had run out.

In the last game his self-confidence completely collapsed and was routed, he only made twenty moves and lost the battle .

One of the first buildings that was reported to have collapsed was a hospital.

Ultimately, after years of needless suffering, their policy collapsed around them.

The bomber reportedly struck a school van before ramming the rear wall of the police station; the building collapsed.

A portion of telegraph hill collapsed sending rocks and boulders down onto the back of at least three buildings.

And Belgium is still without a functioning cabinet since its last coalition collapsed five months ago.

After the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, trade imbalances ceased to be much of a constraint on the developed world.

The next day, the ground is full of water-logging, after thunderstorms, farmland inundated, and some homes had collapsed.

The golden age of finance collapsed under its own contradictions.

If the PA collapsed, Israel would be forced to take responsibility for the Palestinian territories, which it is reluctant to do.

When several creditors collapsed, the bank's shares plummeted.

Some areas of the country saw houses halve in value, helping to placing Britain among the worst performers as world house values collapsed.

Then it collapsed when the economy went south and he was unable to sustain the absurd idea that he was protecting us from anyone.

At least you've chosen a good spot . If you'd collapsed beneath the slope you'd have ended up like your horse.

The balls were dusted with a thin coat of powdered sugar. When bitten, they collapsed with an unctuous squelch.

In Ercis, 'the number of people under rubble is unclear, ' he said, adding that 55 buildings had collapsed in that town.

The US used to look forward to a so-called "poof moment" when the communist system 90 miles off Florida collapsed upon Fidel Castro's death.

A mother has criticised 'selfish' commuters for failing to help her teenage son after he collapsed on a packed tram platform.

The London summit of 1933 marked the moment at which co-operative efforts to manage the Great Depression collapsed.

The rubble had not collapsed farther into the hole.

A large number of school buildings collapsed and only a few teachers and students escaped.

There was a fleeting opportunity for liberal democracy and genuine free markets to emerge in Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

After the supernova, the leftover matter could either have collapsed into a black hole or an extremely dense neutron star.

But unlike during the previous dynastic transition, it now also comes with nuclear weapons and a collapsed society.

The thief had run more than forty miles. As soon as he shook off the police, he collapsed.

In October one of the last big SIVs, Sigma Finance Corporation, with $27 billion in assets, collapsed.

Two buildings near the police station collapsed in the blast and a number of people were buried under the rubble.

It had a wood-trussed clear span of over 25 meters (83 feet). It finally collapsed in the middle of the second century.

The talks in Damascus were feared to have collapsed over differences on policy with Israel and control of the Palestinian security forces.

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He had just celebrated his 40th anniversary as a professional pianist when he collapsed on stage in a town north of Helsinki .