"swift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When the end finally came to Namqem, it would be a steep, swift collapse.
- But it has met in recent weeks with institutional and individual investors upset about the breakdown in governance that contributed to Enron's breathtakingly swift collapse last fall.
- It was a distinguished end to a roller-coaster campaign that experts say will be etched in memory both for its revolutionary use of the Internet and for its stunningly swift collapse.
- Reeling from the swift collapse of the military's authority, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamist group, urged protesters to show restraint or risk delaying the elections.
- The swift collapse of the Taliban's enemies - the "Northern Alliance" of relatively moderate Muslim leaders - represents the culmination of a remarkable rise to power.
- In April 1941 the Germans, Italians and Hungarians invaded Yugoslavia leading to the swift collapse of the Yugoslav state and the surrender of the Yugoslav army.
- Those forecasting a swift collapse did not reckon on the doggednesss of a Government with its back to the wall.
- Captain Manvell was plainly astonished at Lord John's swift collapse, even disgusted by the cowardice, but had no choice but to accept it.
- Their assessments recalled the euphoria generated by the first night of bombing in January, when a high-tech firestorm seemed to presage swift collapse of Saddam Hussein's war machine.
- The likely result would be the defection of the government's army, police and national guard members, followed by a swift collapse and then civil war.
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