21.   No government has ever survived its four-year term, falling victim to military coups or coalition collapses.

22.   Other Social Democratic leaders have openly put the Greens on notice that the coalition will collapse if their delegates fail to give approval.

23.   Reports said Erbakan agreed to put his name under the council directives after Mrs. Ciller warned that their center-right coalition would collapse.

24.   Sharma waited all day before calling Gujral to form the government because he apparently wanted to be sure that the coalition would not collapse again.

25.   Since then, the opposition coalition has collapsed, and Milosevic, the consummate maneuverer, has triumphed.

26.   That coalition collapsed in October over a law allowing the extradition of drug trafficking suspects to the United States.

27.   The coalition collapsed when the centrist leader Spyros Kyprianou decided to run for the presidency himself against Clerides.

28.   The current coalition collapsed mostly due to personal rivalry between Yilmaz and his coalition partner, former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller.

29.   The coalition collapsed because of the vote.

30.   The coalition collapsed last month because the junior partner social democrats could not convince Ciller to endorse higher pay for civil servants, among other economic issues.