But you got the sense that Richter was only delaying the inevitable collapse.

But the beloved child, now a raging minotaur, can only be stopped by the inevitable collapse into sleep.

She was heading for the inevitable collapse, and her father was due back from his inspection tour.

Bouton felt that the immense pressure and stress of managing the Yankees through their inevitable collapse likely led to his death.

Whatever, he failed, managing only to push the inevitable collapse of the Empire further into its future.

The entire framework of our overseas trade organization would begin an inevitable collapse.

He explained that white paramilitary groups were only training to deal with the inevitable collapse of law and order once blacks gained their political rights.

I think the crazy feeling that one senses in America is, to use crude psychological language, denial of this inevitable collapse.

But experts said that would simply delay the inevitable collapse.

However, they are building on an already weak financial foundation and are putting off the inevitable collapse.