"This would only mean one thing for our country: the collapse of the state.
A military solution would lead to the collapse of the state.
Napoleon's overwhelming defeat of the Prussians in the battle of Jena was followed by the rapid collapse of the state.
Egypt's top general raised the specter of a "collapse of the state" if civilian leaders failed to restore order.
He said that the transition "should not be allowed to lead to the collapse of the state and its institutions".
The collapse of the state, as opposed to an orderly transition of the ruling regime, would be catastrophic.
"The military will only intervene as a last measure – to prevent the collapse of the state itself," said Shimy.
The rise of sectarianism and the slow collapse of the state in Syria poses a danger to the Middle East as a whole.
The Stasi archive, which survived the collapse of the state, contains more than 102 linear miles (164 km) of files on four million East German citizens.
The total collapse of the state marks the final, extreme phase of state failure, and very few states can be described as completely failed or collapsed.
At least until the 1990s, when the collapse of the state sector began in earnest, workers aspired to be party members because membership gave them power.
