| It imploded and came crumbling down all around the grounds in 37 seconds flat. |
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| This 110-storey monument to everything proud and American imploded, collapsing in on itself in a rising mountain of dust. |
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| The wall imploded behind my father, the force flinging him like a rag doll to land unmoving at our feet. |
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| At the same time, the country's fragile economy, based on unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, has imploded. |
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| Yet only the most indifferent supporter could fail to be disappointed at how the season has imploded. |
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| The panoramic window imploded, sending shards of glass flying in all directions. |
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| When Mano Negra imploded, Chao went walkabout with a guitar and a tape recorder and, in 1998, the fruits of his efforts appeared as Clandestino. |
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| The Soviet Union had imploded, the Berlin Wall had come tumbling down, and Africans were not indifferent to these winds of change. |
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| When Yugoslavia imploded in 1991, the musicians separated and the group stopped for a while. |
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| Asset price inflation came to a halt, expected returns then fell by the leveraged effects and the bubble imploded. |
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| Of course this whole episode imploded and we reverted to the standard and well tested textbook models of how value is created and destroyed. |
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| In February 2006, the new government of Somalia met for the first time and in April the old capital of Mogadishu imploded into all-out war. |
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| In 1980, Denis Healey lost out to Michael Foot, and Labour imploded. |
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| The BNP has since largely imploded and neither former leader Griffin, nor any other party member, has appeared on the programme since. |
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| But Labour in London appears to be on a roll, while the Lib Dems have imploded. |
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| Had the Lib Dems imploded – even come third – the coalition would now be in crisis. |
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| Over the months following my father's death I quietly imploded without myself or anyone around me at university noticing. |
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| After four years the group imploded, leaving two 45rpms recorded in 1976 behind them. |
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| They basically told me Britt's chances of survival were slim that her brain had swelled so much that it had imploded. |
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| The world changed after 1989 when the Soviet Union imploded and, in Canada, Mulroney was elected. |
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| After a few years, when all the richest mining claims had been staked, this small city imploded with equal suddenness, turning almost into a ghost town. |
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| I have heard other stories about weddings being ruined because the dress or cake firm or indeed the reception venue imploded on the eve of the happy event. |
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| Kevin made a mad dash for the passageway as the room imploded. |
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| The shot imploded inside his skull, causing no exit wound and little disfigurement. |
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| When that scene imploded from drugs and violence, he continued working in low-budget theatricals, often writing, producing, directing, and dressing these threadbare plays. |
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| The mountain is now all that remains of the imploded inner dome of the volcano. |
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| By the late 16th century, the league had imploded and could no longer deal with its own internal struggles. |
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| We realized that Kenya had imploded, not just because of the failures of the Electoral Commission of Kenya to conduct credible, free and fair elections, which were obvious. |
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| African traditional societies, based on a customary hierarchical system of communal kinship and government or guidance by elders has imploded as a result of the unavoidable and forcible intrusion of the modern world. |
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| It was a tough time, and the club basically imploded, but the consistent thing was that no-one jumped ship. |
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| The evacuated flask imploded with a pop when it could no longer stand the outside air pressure. |
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| At the end of the Live tour, Angelfish imploded and Manson returned to Smart for a second try. |
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| Mr President, the tragedy of the Arab-Israeli conflict is never too far from our minds or TV screens, and the carefully constructed roadmap now seems to have virtually imploded. |
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| We have watched in front of our eyes as nations have imploded, millions of people killed, economies destroyed and the seeds of ethnic hatred and discontent laid to bear and sewn for generations to come. |
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| The Belgian financial sector imploded, and what had been unthinkable just a few months previously, i.e. the risk of systemic bankruptcies of banking institutions, became a reality. |
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| But even after enron imploded, the deregulated market remained. |
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| He skipped over and hurled the geode through the windshield of the van, which imploded, producing an inward rain of glass shards that made the sound of thousands of tiny bamboo wind chimes. |
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| Throughout the Sunni heartland, the government has simply imploded. |
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| After the expulsion of the population and those working in healthcare services, the healthcare system of Kosovo and Metohija imploded and health services collapsed. |
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| Since the second one imploded in 1989, it seems past time to put to rest the nebulous and sometimes toxic third-world concept. But the term third world did not originally refer to geopolitics. |
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| Many times in the past the Holland camp has imploded after some bitter in-fighting. |
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| Little did the Hunters know that two weeks ago Winborn helped them by injuring his ankle, and Friday night, host Canoga Park went about its business while Grant imploded. |
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| The group, who released the album Diet Of Worms and then imploded, will be playing all of their greatest hits at the Linthorpe Road venue this evening. |
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| The Romanian builder working on renovations was on the third floor of the five storey offices when the top two floors imploded at 4pm, showering the street. |
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| The board at American University imploded with Ladner's dismissal. |
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