A Spanish government that did likewise would lose all prospect of support from the ECB's OMT programme, and the markets would quickly pounce.
"As we move from concepts to architectural designs, having a builder as your chairman -- with the prospect of support from other builders around town -- will be terrific," he said.
But a shortage of funding threatens to leave those halfway through the reintegration process high and dry, and the others without any prospect of support.
I'm a businessman," Adelson quipped: "Why not?" when asked about the prospect of supporting Trump.
They were great days, she says - certainly better than the prospect of supporting Glazer & Sons.
Mostyn, for his part, said that he and his wife, Amber, were excited about the prospect of supporting Clinton.
Laura's husband is facing the prospect of supporting his mother-in-law, who has lost all her money in an unsuccessful dry cleaning business.
With dim hopes of a quick initial public offering or acquisition these days, venture capitalists are facing the prospect of supporting their portfolio companies through several rounds of financing.
Before the first 1974 general election, Hetherington raised at meetings with his senior staff the prospect of supporting Heath, whom he thought had been right in his conflict with the miners.
For the increasingly few who may toy with the prospect of supporting a Nader campaign, President Al Gore has a bridge in Brooklyn he would like to sell you.
Even if the prospects of military support are slim, we should be cultivating international support for helping Iraqis rebuild Iraq after a war.
