1.   Mr Ishaq wants all the provincial assemblies dissolved, in order to create a constitutional crisis that will force a general election.

2.   The scandal caused the greatest constitutional crisis of modern times.

3.   This trait was in evidence last week as the president, Leonid Kravchuk, threw his country into a constitutional crisis.

4.   Was a constitutional crisis at hand?

5.   The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy.

6.   Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis.

7.   Liberal Club supporters protested that these moves would call into question the mandate of elected Civic Forum parliamentary deputies, and would thereby provoke a constitutional crisis.

8.   It was resolutely opposed by the opposition parties even to the extent of provoking a new constitutional crisis by disrupting work within the Senate.

9.   He again asserted his preference for a referendum as the most democratic and moral method of resolving the constitutional crisis.