But that, more or less, is why efforts to curb global warming collapsed last week.

But that effort collapsed in 1985, and parole remains very much alive, with the board making about 17,000 release decisions a year.

But such efforts collapsed when the violence erupted four years ago.

The whole effort might have collapsed, and that wouldn't have helped any of the kids.

Those efforts collapsed yesterday, and the firm announced that it was in default.

But his effort collapsed in 1912 as the project fell into bankruptcy.

Suddenly a year's effort to push away her feelings collapsed in ruins.

But the effort collapsed this summer after taxpayers realized the cost.

The efforts to put the issues to the voters in the form of amendments then collapsed.

But those efforts collapsed with the 1989 crackdown and the Governor was transferred.