Sentence examples for Breakdown of authority from inspiring English sources

The more immediate one is the widespread breakdown of authority.

Yet on the inside the country remains dangerously close to a serious breakdown of authority.

Since much of the world's piracy occurs in Indonesia's shipping lanes, a breakdown of authority could give it free rein.

The breakdown of authority in Lahore was startling for Pakistan, said Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States and Britain.

It is this breakdown of authority – which reactionaries blame on immigration, foreign control and communist agitation – that fuels Golden Dawn's support.

Their chief adversary was Charles Texx" Thornton, a self-made business tycoon, who viewed the uprisings, along with surging crime rates and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, as representative of a broader breakdown of authority.

Hizbullah and Hamas are tribes which have flourished because of the breakdown of state authority in Lebanon and the failure of the Palestinian Authority to exercise any kind of state order.

A breakdown of cultural authority.

One danger is a complete breakdown of central authority.

In its 19th-century form, caudillismo was the result of the breakdown of central authority.

The rate of violent crime, relatively low during the period of Zairean rule, has increased with the breakdown of central authority under the successor regime.