11.   Martino was foreign minister under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose government collapsed last December when he lost his support in parliament.

12.   Since then, the communist government has collapsed, giving way to a civil war among the Muslim rebel groups that had fought Soviet troops.

13.   That would leave less than three years for Congress to fill in the gap before federal tax revenue disappears and the government collapses of financial starvation.

14.   The collapse forced much of the population into bankruptcy, and the government collapsed during the ensuing unrest.

15.   The government collapsed against a wall of hysteria and interned all Japanese-Americans, a move that was clearly not a reasonable response to the perceived threat.

16.   The former president has been living in exile in Japan since fleeing there when his government collapsed in November.

17.   The Eritreans went on the offensive, believing that the Ethiopian government would collapse.

18.   They had ruled Berlin with the Social Democrats until this June, when the government collapsed in a corruption and banking scandal.

19.   This group does not believe that the stock market will crash, governments will collapse and the world will fall into anarchy.

20.   Though their governments may collapse with regularity, Japanese car dealerships in the United States remain dependable, according to an annual J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction survey.