| Consumption is only now beginning to approach the level where it had been at the implosion of communist power. |
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| The engineers had decided that faster demolition, using implosion methods, would not be an option in this case. |
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| The efforts of the Soviets to keep pace with American expansion brought them to the point of implosion. |
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| They welcomed the fall of the Wall and the implosion of the totalitarian regime. |
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| For much of 2001, private equity firms had to deal with a soft market sparked by the fallout of the dotcom implosion. |
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| Fortunately we have the boys in Minnesota keeping us updated on the on-air implosion. |
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| Maloney said that one of the major effects of the dotcom implosion was to rid the market of unprofitable and uncompetitive firms. |
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| Jonathan Beck has interpreted this manner of literary and musical composition as the implosion of a formal system through radical self-reference. |
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| It's easy to believe that downsizing staff is merely a prelude to a company-wide implosion. |
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| For a moment, it looked as if the company's implosion would be the disgraceful disproof of that. |
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| The point is simply the implosion of the system, the swarming strangeness of others, the futility of organizing inquiry. |
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| He suggested that radiation implosion, rather than mechanical shock, be used to compress the thermonuclear fuel. |
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| Over the past 18 months, we have witnessed the implosion of dot-bombs as well as the short-circuiting major tech companies. |
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| What if the notion that the buildings collapsed through pre-planted implosion devices is true? |
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| Such was the ease with which Liverpool marmalised the home side’s rearguard in the first fifty minutes that the contest should have been over long before the implosion of Klopp’s defence. |
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| But they are all we have, and you cannot re-engineer the formula without causing unforeseen results, possibly including the implosion of the institution itself. |
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| The speculative bubble was at the brink of a dangerous implosion. |
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| Probably the hardest hit with the news of the Montreal music implosion were former Montreal playas and scenesters now left picking up the pieces of their shattered lives. |
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| Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern. |
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| To avoid a trench war and the implosion of the UMP, a third man could emerge and settle the dispute. |
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| The Rugby Football Union and its leading clubs are tiptoeing towards a PR implosion. |
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| The implosion of the unsinkable hedge fund Iceland, which has now decided that it wants to become a member, has opened their eyes. |
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| Unbridled pursuit of enlargement without deepening will lead to administrative impotence and possibly even to an implosion. |
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| All the conditions are there and the count down to the implosion of Tajikistan seems about to begin. |
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| I have what I have referred to as the fear of implosion for lack of a better word, and I am concerned about it. |
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| We must also prepare ourselves for the implosion of the country and the catastrophe that will mean in terms of human suffering across the region. |
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| As a rough estimate, beginners would need at least 20kg of HEU or 10kg of plutonium in order to build one warhead using the implosion method. |
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| This implosion is a rethinking of the structure of mofongo by pairing it with an island fruit, a variation which lightens the otherwise very starchy plaintain. |
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| Building demolitions are another common example of implosion. |
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| After the implosion of the project, Harris relocated to a commercial apple orchard in upstate New York. |
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| The tsunami of value destruction would dwarf the Lehman Brothers implosion, says Daniel Gross. |
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| But these stories always end the same way, with the implosion of the would-be demagogue. |
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| His lack of discipline when he jumped into the race is what caused his implosion in the first place. |
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| And even traditional Hollywood, in the wake of his 2006 implosion, didn't totally give up on him. |
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| The last four years have witnessed an astonishing implosion of a previously unquestioned investment strategy. |
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| The country has undergone a structural readjustment, and the ensuing social implosion is most evident in the capital, one of the world's most violent cities. |
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| The risk of implosion is greater than the rewards of being right. |
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| A plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia. |
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| There is a possibility, however, for an implosion of the state, with the institution of the velayat-e faqih gradually losing legitimacy because of the crisis of spiritual and political legitimacy. |
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| From China's point of view, it is better to preserve North Korea's few remaining economic lifelines than risk nudging Kim Jong Il's regime towards an implosion that could send millions pouring across the Chinese border. |
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| A comparatively high compression can be achieved using the implosion method, which means that large overcritical masses can be achieved with relatively small amounts of material. |
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| Naked beneath the sheets in his hotel room, the attack a collage of sound – panicky sirens, fissuring broadcasters' voices, rescue helicopters pureeing the air, the muffle and crush of implosion – from his hotel clock radio. |
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| Even before the avalanche of events in Eastern Europe culminated in the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, speculation began on how to replace the alliance arrangements with a new European architecture. |
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| Due to mechanical difficulties, the pilot was forced to drop the bomb and to destroy it using explosives that were meant to provoke the implosion of fissile material. |
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| Both the success of emerging countries and the disasters looming for countries heading towards implosion will have a direct impact on our lives and those of our children? |
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| Yet nothing contributed more to the division, mistrust and implosion of our society in the north than Sinn Fein and the IRA's refusal to heed the cries of the people of Ireland to cease their violence. |
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| Researchers believe the vehicle may have suffered a catastrophic implosion of a glass sphere used to keep ABE buoyant. |
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| Russia will be in the midst of the steepest and most protracted population implosion of any major power since the plague-ridden Middle Ages. |
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| Passed by and ignored on a daily basis by the Breslavians hurrying about to work or relaxation, its spectacular implosion has made of it an element that cannot be overlooked. |
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| Eric's boss had accused him more than once of being a worrier, but Eric hadn't felt this overwound since his previous employer's stock underwent a dot-bomb implosion. |
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| It proved the cue for a period of implosion from Wigan, who fell two behind shortly after the hour courtesy of Boyce's costly error, Young firing in unerringly from the spot. |
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