Sentence examples for a failing state from inspiring English sources

A failing state will continue to fail until it has a government that can offer the country a viable programme for the future.

Let's hope, too, that Pakistan, by many definitions a failing state, does not become a failed state.

The former spy chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha told the commission: "We are a failing state even if we are not yet a failed state".

"American arrogance knows no limits," General Pasha was cited as saying, as well as that Pakistan was "a failing state, even if we are not yet a failed state .The missing page of testimony from the leaked version published by Al Jazeera related to General Pasha's testimony.

That Nigeria is a failing state is unarguable.

Mr Uribe inherited a failing state in 2002.

Its first store was one of eight acquired from a failing state-owed chain.

In 1989, at the government's behest, he took over a failing state-owned canning factory in his hometown of Hangzhou.

When BRI, a failing state-controlled rural lender in Indonesia, was transformed into a bank for the poor in 1984, it offered not only the usual loan products but also a government-guaranteed savings account with no minimum deposit.

The policies are credited with improving living standards for millions of the most vulnerable Indians, but the Modi campaign portrayed them as vehicles for corruption and part of a failing state-run system that must be dismantled to unleash growth.

While many observers debate whether Pakistan is or is not a failed or failing state, history has shown that Pakistan and Pakistanis have an amazing ability to keep on keeping on.