s'effondrer

Sans seuil les caissons se seraient effondrés.
Without the threshold, the caissons would have sunk.
Sans ce soutien financier indispensable, il ne fait aucun doute qu'un grand nombre d'établissements financiers détenant les économies et les pensions de nombreux citoyens européens se seraient effondrés.
Without such financial life-support, many financial institutions holding the savings and pensions of many European citizens would undoubtedly have collapsed.
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