1.   Bollards are prone to sudden collapse, and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval.

2.   Another serious problem that has not been so widely mentioned is the sudden collapse of underworld finance.

3.   Barring a sudden collapse in demand, there is little reason to expect that business will stop replenishing inventories.

4.   A sudden collapse of Long-Term Capital would have left many of them with risky one-way bets on their own books.

5.   A sudden collapse of the kind that afflicted the smaller Asian economies seems highly unlikely.

6.   But he declined to predict a sudden collapse of their forces.

7.   But that is different from expecting -- as yakitori-bar worriers do -- a sudden collapse in manufacturing output or employment.

8.   But the A Teams brought us a steady increase of pressure, and the sudden collapse of the Taliban.

9.   But the sudden collapse of the proposed business was just the latest in a string of setbacks.

10.   Events suggest progressive deterioration rather than a sudden collapse.