"The leak itself is not a crisis, but if there's a collapse, it will be an instantaneous crisis".
With an inner committee including bankers, barristers and businessmen, the UCA claimed it could run the country's essential services, such as fire, ambulance and auxiliary police if there was a collapse of law and order, and if "the means of sustenance" ran short.
There is a collapse waiting to happen.
There is a collapse in there somewhere too.
A real shift among economists will come only if there is a wholesale collapse, Mr. Wray and Mr. Card agreed.
"If there is a total collapse of the economy, there will be a further social impact on their countries of origin," Mr. Guterres said.
He's planning for "the golden horde," the flood of people he believes will flee the cities if there is a full-scale socioeconomic collapse.
The MWI is wrong if there is a physical process of collapse of the wave function of the Universe to a single-world quantum state.
Few aspects of Rudolph W. Giuliani's repertoire are more predictable: if there is a major fire, a building collapse, a snowstorm or other emergency, the mayor will be there, rousing the troops and assuring the public not to worry, as he is in charge.
Republicanism does not collapse into liberalism if there is a real and substantial difference between the former's view of liberty as independence from arbitrary or uncontrolled power, and the view of negative liberty as non-interference, generally embraced by the latter.
