ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived two confidence votes on Tuesday, avoiding the collapse of his government but prolonging Italy's political agony.
In an interview Wednesday, Mr. Devaney called himself a fighter and described his efforts to avoid the collapse of his fund during the last year.
Prokhanov replied that perhaps, in order to avoid the collapse of Soviet power, "one should spit upon the legal technicalities and impose a dictatorship".
The decisions of the Greek government were taken after five months of threats and blackmail, but we managed to avoid the collapse of the banking system in Greece and the country's political isolation.
HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) — Rival parties in Northern Ireland cast aside a Friday deadline set by the British and Irish prime ministers, negotiating into Saturday in an effort to avoid the collapse of their power-sharing government.
This didn't particularly surprise me, even though, given that European leaders have been engaged in tense negotiations to avoid the collapse of their common currency, the timing was particularly bad.
But things took a turn for the worse this week when, to avoid the collapse of his centre-right coalition government, Mr Batlle had to sack his unpopular finance minister, Alberto Bension.
Its mission was partly humanitarian, amid "pre-genocidal" massacres by armed Muslim and Christian groups, and partly a strategic effort to avoid the collapse of a landlocked, mineral-rich state at the intersection of many regional conflicts.
Separately, Mr. González Macchi announced the same day that he would move out of the presidential palace to cut costs.] Mr. Jiménez "has 15 days to get funds" and "avoid the collapse of the state," the daily ABC Color predicted on Monday.
