1.   Food shortages would probably galvanise public anger into action, as would a complete collapse of the economy.

2.   It was the ordinary police who prevented a complete collapse of law and order in the loyalist urban districts of Belfast.

3.   Do they realize we are racing towards complete economic collapse?

4.   Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognised as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology.

5.   Electronic exchanges can experience a complete collapse, sometimes for several days, which necessitates a return to open outcry trading or the creation of a telephone market.

6.   Who could tell whether the rout might not merely be accelerated, turning into a complete collapse and unbarring the most direct approach to Paris?

7.   As Argentina struggled to avert complete fiscal collapse with the anticipated issue of a new currency, the fallout in the United States is slowly coming to light.

8.   Barring a complete collapse in the next three weeks, BC will have made a quantum leap from cellar dweller to Big East contender.

9.   Bourque rescued the Bruins from complete collapse when he pulled them within a goal on his second power-play strike of the night.

10.   But a long, extra-inning battle and a complete collapse by the bullpen rendered that incidental Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.