That and the sense, especially in California, that the public infrastructure is falling to pieces.
Labour's Andy Burnham has complained his Leigh constituency could be ripped "to pieces".
Google, lately, seems positively excited to see its products taken to pieces by skilled hackers.
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Solids (usually metals) can take this pushing around, but liquids tend to go to pieces.
The House of Culture's once-grand foyer and staircase were also completely deserted and falling to pieces.
Likewise, some tents last for a long time whereas others fall to pieces rapidly.
The men she talks to, however, are a pathetic bunch, whose confidence is shot to pieces.
And it must be tempting to turn the knife by trying to take those arguments to pieces.
The Kelon team took a Japanese-made fridge to pieces to see how it worked, then reverse-engineered it.
As they celebrated raucously on receipt of the trophy, the public address system belted out Razorlight's "Fall to Pieces".
At worst, the plan will be cut to pieces to appease spending constituencies.
The No campaign took the Yes campaign to pieces over the AV issue.
"He just reached the conclusion that if he didn't do something, the country would go to pieces, " Mr. O'Neill said.
Gatland claimed he saw Hartley "go to pieces" for Northampton against Leicester earlier this season and questioned his temperament.
Then, as we all know too well, things fell to pieces as all that risky business came home to roost.
After Harold Washington died suddenly, in his second term, his achievement, such as it was, fell to pieces almost at once.
"When something falls to pieces you can't live in a second home on the floor with no bed or carpet, " she declared.
So far, the audience has no idea whether or not this character can stand up to pressure or will go to pieces.
Slice your way to the end and the world falls to pieces.
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The eggs were pecked open and the nests themselves torn to pieces.
We drew monthly progress charts on what each department was doing and she would tear to pieces anyone who was not keeping up.
Consider that both processes, different as they are, are at their essence both completely legitimate and shot to pieces by too much money.
He described the "minimum objective" of his trip as "to stop them tearing us to pieces" and the maximum objective as getting News Corp.
The season before, Arsenal was firmly in the title hunt, just four points off the top, when the season went to pieces in March.
The cargoes transported across the Mediterranean included terrified slaves and prisoners (like the apostle Paul, whose ship was smashed to pieces) as well as exotic spices.
Given the way the EU was set up, then the way the eurozone was, it was just always going to come to pieces in this sort of manner.
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The musical features 27 Cline hits, including "Walkin' After Midnight, " ''I Fall To Pieces, " ''Crazy, " ''She's Got You, " ''Sweet Dreams, " ''Back In Baby's Arms" and "Your Cheatin' Heart.
The twister crushed the school and reduced it to pieces.
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For people in the West, World War I was the great disillusionment, the moment when orthodoxy crumbled and leaders failed and the faiths of a lifetime fell to pieces.
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