企业可能在竞争下覆亡。

Businesses succumb to competition and disappear.

“建设”论者则强调，国难当头，别说停止建设，即使放缓建设的步伐也不啻在自讨覆亡。

Those who hold the view of construction emphasize that in the period of national calamity, slowing down the pace of construction means to court one's own ruin, let alone stopping construction.

清代就有不少学者把明朝的覆亡归咎于崇祯皇帝处决了他手下最具才干的大将袁崇焕。

Thus, quite a few Qing schol-ars attributed the fall of the Ming dynasty to Emperor Chongzhen's execution of his ablest general, Yuan Chonghuan.