"The primary objective of this offensive is to force the collapse of the TFG and to force AMISOM to leave Somalia,".
VOA: standard.2009.06.26
Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.
VOA: standard.2009.11.03
Indeed, with the dollar price of gold having reached an all-time high in January of 1980, the yellow metal began a long collapse downward once Reagan won the New Hampshire Republican primary.
The summit largely focused on one of the primary causes of the global economy's lethargic recovery -- the threat of a European currency collapse that would roil the already fragile economies of most of the 17 countries that use the euro.