German officials, though, argue that the measures already taken in the euro zone in recent months have staved off a threatened collapse of confidence, which seemed about to plunge the world back into recession.
"So I went rushing back to the Dutch embassy and said, 'Help, help, help.' " By then, the complex was a ruin, with sagging walls, rotting beams and a roof that threatened collapse.
Thus if the fictionalist sticks closely to the possible-worlds "translations" given in Lewis 1968, s/he will be able to avoid the threatened collapse.
There are no precise figures, but the best estimate is that U.S. business spends as much as $3 billion a year to avert this threatened collapse.
Furthermore, Wall Street financial institutions have become so over leveraged and so interconnected that the collapse of one threatens the collapse of all and thereby potential total collapse of the global economy.
The old party system is threatening to collapse imminently.
Blackmailing the world by threatening imminent collapse is vintage Pakistan.
He said the flat was dangerously damaged and was threatening to collapse, putting investigators at risk.
Everybody but our small group of Florence fans leaped up and down in concert, threatening to collapse the stadium, shouting that whoever wasn't jumping was Florentine.
The titans of Detroit were tottering on the brink of liquidation, threatening to collapse and take more than a million jobs with them.
But in the face of assassination attempts, kidnappings, purges, political pressures and boycotts, Saddam Hussein's trial is threatening to collapse into a shambles.
