Sentence examples for a parallel state from inspiring English sources

What emerged was a parallel state.

Pdvsa is running a parallel state.

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez created a parallel state and augmented his own constitutional power.

Erdoğan has accused Gülen of operating a "parallel state structure" bent on toppling him.

"You will be accused of being part of a parallel state," she said.

"They created a parallel state," explains Umit Kardas, a former military prosecutor.

Zaman is regarded by the A.K.P. as part of a "parallel state," which it claims was plotting a coup.

Erdoğan believes Gülenists in the judiciary and police constituted a "parallel state" that sought to overthrow him.

It nudges you infinitesimally towards a parallel state that is like, and yet not like, at once banal and bewitching.

Calling them "a parallel state", Mr Erdogan has been purging followers of Mr Gulen from state institutions.

Mr Erdogan has accused Mr Gulen's followers of establishing "a parallel state" by infiltrating ministries, the judiciary and the police.