crumbling

The stunning beauty of the natural setting contrasted against the decrepit and crumbling (literally) pier railing was shocking.

With most communication now conducted online, magazines and newspapers crumbling, and e-readers increasing in popularity, paper is now on serious life support.

I remember being taught that Nazi Germany only appeared strong -- but that inside was a crumbling, weak core.

The world watches as political islamic extremists take advantage of crumbling governments in Syria and Iraq to murder, steal, kidnap, and destroy across the region.

Eventually it is all going to come crumbling down.

My world is crumbling and there's nothing I can do to stop it.

Rosetta Stone's DVD based revenue model is crumbling.

We have crumbling roads, failing bridges, and, now, telecom and computing services that are rather unimproved since inception, decades ago.

What happened to all these crumbling old buildings?

Social is littered with the crumbling ruins of corps that believed they were too big to fail, but which fell off the world after Doing Stupid Shit for too long.

The Chinese stock market is crumbling (due to economic, not technical reasons) and Greece is in the fiscal equivalent of the crazy guy barricaded in his house with this gun collection.

This is also seen in many Eastern Europe places with flashy cars near crumbling post-WW2 soviet apartment buildings where obviously their (leased) car costs twice or more than any home there.

For example, people can be put to work repairing our "crumbling infrastructure" or building new infrastructure (c.f.

I.e., it would be completely useless to build more community gardens, fix our "crumbling infrastructure" or provide free daycare for working mothers?

"The nation’s crumbling infrastructure makes it hard for those living in poverty to access jobs, quality groceries, and good schools." So true.

It's "crumbling" because the system has been split up into smaller companies with some parts having been contracted out to private companies all of which now fight over whose responsibility it is to fix certain parts of the infrastructure.