At times, judging by some reactions here, it seemed that come Monday, the judicial system might crumble like the courthouse.

When I was at college, the economic system in eastern Europe was crumbling.

The regulatory system that kept the nuclear weapons club small for decades is crumbling.

Even the once-vaunted system of private schools is crumbling: many are closed.

And when that system crumbled, Titov found himself empty, abandoned, alone.

South Africa is not the only place where a seemingly impregnable political system has crumbled in recent years.

One realizes that most clearly here; all your philosophic systems crumble.

Many airlines immediately followed, but others did not, and the new system crumbled.

If debts are called in, the system crumbles.

In the 1930's, the whole banking system crumbled.