But without drastic renovation it could easily collapse.
What is more, a grand coalition could easily collapse in bickering.
Every time she tries to easily collapse it, it refuses to go.
But many commentators noted that Mr. Berlusconi's party would more easily collapse than undergo a change in leadership.
Tent cities dot the landscape, he said, and the plywood homes being built to replace them could easily collapse in a hurricane.
"The most necessary thing is nutrition," says Heidari. "If a homeless person is well fed, he or she won't so easily collapse and die".
The work could easily collapse under the weight of its intellectual cargo, but Soper maintains a light touch even as she delves into epistemological complexities.
That liberalism can so easily collapse into nativism is clearly seen in Rotterdam, where designs for mosques are rejected as "too Islamic" and a citizenship code makes it compulsory to speak only Dutch in the street.
But Parliament would have to approve most of the changes in 45 days, and the rebels, known as the National Liberation Army, have to turn in their weapons or the deal could easily collapse with more fighting.
While divided government inevitably creates opportunities for compromise, the recent acrimony in Congress suggests that efforts to work together could just as easily collapse in a fusillade of angry floor speeches, filibusters by the Senate Republicans and veto threats by the White House.
If the Amato government is approved by Parliament this week, it will be Italy's 58th government since World War II, and the latest example of the Italian art of "trasformismo": governments, built on fragile and often discordant coalitions, easily collapse, but are quickly rejiggered, often with the same ministers and policies as before.
