21.   Other cease-fire agreements collapsed within hours.

22.   The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Soviet Union, its patron, would collapse within weeks.

23.   The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Soviet Union would collapse within weeks.

24.   The government collapsed within days, however, when it lost a parliamentary vote of confidence.

25.   The government, an experiment in Catholic-Protestant power-sharing, could collapse within days.

26.   The socialist bloc that aided and traded with Cuba had crumbled and the Soviet Union itself would collapse within weeks.

27.   The plan collapsed within days, partly due to public opposition over spending tax money on millionaire hockey players and club owners.

28.   Truce accords in December and January collapsed within hours.

29.   Truces in December and January collapsed within hours.

30.   Vajpayee served as its foreign minister, but the government collapsed within two years.