The sudden noise scattered the birds.

His sudden visit took me by surprise.

Her sudden departure surprised us all.

A sudden noise abstracted their attention from the game.

My left lung had collapsed when I was born.

The sudden decline in revenues for host communities has been devastating.

Argentina's collapse incited the largest default in history.

My eventual escape to New York had nothing to do with tourism. Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.

Sudden withdrawal of credits was enough to push them to the edge of recession.

Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.

Unfortunately, when she goes to unwrap the prosciutto, Ajax makes a lunge for it.

So when will this promised dollar collapse and crisis come?

But, though Russia s economy is undoubtedly in trouble, a full blown collapse is unlikely.

But a sudden backward regression can lead to despair, which we feel today.

Moreover, any sudden rise in the tax burden results in deadweight losses.

This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma. The fear is real and visceral, and politicians ignore it at their peril.

This sudden fear of emerging countries presents a major dilemma.

Growth is wonderful inflation is terrible a central bank cannot avoid choosing it must restore price stability even if that means sacrificing growth.

This is what lies ahead, unless there is sudden relief from an upturn in the euro.

First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.

Enough! has recently been set up to coordinate individual and group efforts to prevent the infrastructure collapse in Ukraine.

These are the data. You failed the pop quiz, and you're hardly five minutes into the lecture.

Why on Earth? And if you haven't read Jared Diamond's book, Collapse, I totally recommend that you do.

A national economy that is excluded by sanctions is likely to stagnate or even collapse.

When the crash came in 2008, massive fiscal and monetary expansion prevented US consumption from collapsing.

And this has already saved millions of lives, and it has prevented entire economies from capsizing in Sub Saharan Africa.

The sudden disruption of these essential materials from the production process forced a reassessment of how these supply chains function.

The collapse of asset bubbles in the 1990 s left Japan s financial system and private sector saddled with a huge debt overhang.

A Jerusalem controlled by non productive Orthodox Jewish communities and disenfranchised Palestinians is destined for economic and political collapse.

Indeed, the recent sudden rise in market volatility suggests that they are as bad as rating agencies at detecting the early warning signs of trouble.

Those high interest rates strangle businesses and households, causing further economic collapse and making debt ever more unsustainable.

I like climate crisis instead of climate collapse, but again, those of you who are good at branding, I need your help on this.

Indeed, it is now clear that governments prevented a full scale collapse of the financial system in 2008 by transforming toxic private debt into public debt.

The barometer of stress watched most closely by experts, the LIBOR OIS (Overnight Indexed Swap) spread is down substantially from its stratospheric crisis levels.

Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt s economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse. Avoiding it would compel the eurozone's core economies to embrace the fourth and final option bribing the periphery to remain in a low growth uncompetitive state.

Of course, such a disorderly eurozone break up would be as severe a shock as the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, if not worse.

While those actions were needed to stem large scale capital flight and prevent the banking system s collapse, they also caused the Greek economy to contract sharply.

The Soviet Union s sudden collapse was a strategic boon to Asia, eliminating a menacing empire and opening the way for China rapidly to pursue its interests globally.

This sudden scarcity of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.

While higher world farm prices help producers, they hurt urban households in developing countries, many of which are also poor. That is why the recent spike in food prices has led many food growing countries to impose export restrictions and has caused near panic among those concerned about global poverty.

That is why the recent spike in food prices has led many food growing countries to impose export restrictions and has caused near panic among those concerned about global poverty.

Suddenly there was a sudden squeak somewhere. It was very sudden. Sudden... Try saying that word fifty times then using it in a sentence...

This created an unnecessary new deadline of February 28 for the withdrawal of ECB funding and consequent collapse of the Greek banking system.

CAMBRIDGE It is time for the world s major central banks to acknowledge that a sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today s epic debt morass.