The tower collapsed.

That faith was and is misplaced.

Life's a ruin without you.

The brick wall collapsed on itself

The roof collapsed under the weight of the snow.

A few years later, though, the economy crashed.

The Berlin Wall fell in 1990.

Within one year, the stock market collapsed.

But tank it did, taking Russia s economy with it.

And, indeed, it has the shocking collapse this week of the Greek banking system.

The country s economy has not just collapsed it is structurally moribund.

His flawlessly ordered life collapsed when his drug addict brothers appeared.

Eventually, Czarist Russia collapsed, opening the way to the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Macedonian case is different because that system had already crashed here.

That, in a nutshell, was the Soviet model, which failed once and would fail again.

When Greece imploded, the investments turned sour, and the Cypriot banks that had engaged in this strategy became insolvent.

North Korea's economy utterly collapsed in the 1990's, leading to widespread famine.

When the Communist empire collapsed, some even announced that the victory of liberty and democracy implied the end of history.

Nationalism became lethal when the economy crashed, and social unrest threatened to upset the political order.

There was a moment, after the near collapse of the world's financial architecture, when anything seemed possible.

The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 much more rapidly than most West Germans would have dreamed (or dreaded). They had underestimated the strength of German national feeling in the East.

The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 much more rapidly than most West Germans would have dreamed (or dreaded).

In February, however, the opposite happened political support for the IMF program broke down when President and Prime Minister had a shouting match.

In Ireland, Spain, and even Portugal, exports grew strongly when the domestic economy collapsed and wages adjusted.

The problem was not a lack of confidence that the Spanish government would fulfill its promises, but too much confidence that it would, and that this would reduce growth and increase unemployment from its already intolerable level of 20 .

The day after Spain announced its austerity package, its bonds were downgraded.

The North Koreans consider any reliance on the outside world as a source of weakness, even though their economy would collapse without Chinese handouts.

The first Edo collapsed when the United States Navy opened up the Japanese market with the arrival of Commodore Perry s black ships in 1853.

Brazil spent 45 billion in foreign exchange reserves in a failed attempt to defend the currency, which ended up collapsing anyway in January 1999.

The church we went past crumbled five minutes afterwards due to a huge earthquake and more than a 100 churchgoers were buried alive.

Many people assumed that when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, capitalism had won the ideological cold war and that communism had lost.

Capital began to flee the country, which may not have mattered had the world economy not tanked in September.

By making himself, in effect, the state, Putin, like the gerontocracy that collapsed with Gorbachev s rise, is increasingly viewed as responsible for all state failures.

The Berlin Wall did not collapse under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.

By the late 1950s, RKO had ceased film production, and the remaining four of big five had recognized that they did not know how to reach the youth audience.

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, triggering a seismic shift that moved the borders of the old Federal Republic and of Western Europe as a whole, hundreds of miles to the east.

In Libya, Col. Muammar el Qaddafi s appalling tyranny has collapsed the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.

Even as their country s economy crashed, Greece s new government remained adamant in demanding debt relief without austerity that is, until mid July, when they suddenly agreed to the creditors terms.

Moreover, it is unclear how care will be delivered to the rural front lines, where the old system of clinics based in Peoples Communes collapsed with the de collectivization of agriculture.

The International Monetary Fund has long recognized that it made one too many loans to try to save Argentina s unsustainable dollar peg as it collapsed back in 2001.

After all, the financial system did not collapse altogether, and the Obama administration made a conscious decision to revive banks with hidden subsidies rather than to recapitalize them on a compulsory basis.

BERLIN Those who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened the night the Wall came down.

Bretton Woods I collapsed in 1971, when the dollar s peg to gold became untenable, and Bretton Woods II ended in 2008, owing to the misallocation of capital.

The Dee Bridge, whose cast and wrought iron design followed common practice for the period, collapsed under a passing train, killing everyone aboard.

The irony is that trade has collapsed just when these countries were becoming increasingly active in global markets, with their exports rising by more than 20 during this decade.