Sentence examples for a functioning nation from inspiring English sources

The new leaders will determine whether and how soon a functioning nation emerges from the rubble of January's earthquake.

Unlike Somalia, Mali is a functioning nation that, until the coup last month, had a functioning, democratically elected government.

Iran is the exception along the Middle East's strategic, resource-rich central belt, a functioning nation state where the central authorities enjoy a monopoly of force, the infrastructure works and the people are overwhelmingly literate and unarmed.

How can American forces protect the population, let alone help build a functioning nation, in a tribal narco-state consisting of some 40,000 mostly rural villages over an area larger than California and New York combined?

There are bright spots in the effort to put together a functioning nation, Mr. Bowen found: economic growth in the Kurdish north; tribal reconciliation in the western desert province of Anbar; and patchy progress in the development of local governments.

After independence, the Congolese struggled to build a functioning nation.

Although these successes are important, they will not transform Yemen into a stable, functioning nation.

Bosnia desperately needs symbols and institutions that can draw its fractious groups together into a single, functioning nation.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Haiti itself was a poor but functioning nation, on a par with Korea and Singapore, when François (Papa Doc) Duvalier took power in a populist election, in 1957, and implemented a textbook state-capture plan, which destroyed the economy.

Perhaps if we hadn't pulled so many troops and so much in the way of resources out of Afghanistan prematurely (before even capturing or killing Osama bin Laden) in order to charge into Iraq, we'd be further along toward rebuilding a stable, economically functioning nation in Afghanistan.

He must shift his negotiating abilities from allocating the spoils for the personal enrichment of those loyal, to managing a healthy confederation of tribes, administered well through the loya jirga and other tribal governance mechanisms from which a truly functioning nation-state can thereafter rise.