Sentence examples for artificial countries from inspiring English sources

John Mann Irchester, Northamptonshire The lesson must be that artificial countries created by self-interested imperialists, drawing arbitrary lines on inaccurate maps, will eventually become ungovernable.

In addition, billionaires may soon be able to buy their own artificial countries – built in international waters on oil rig-type platforms – where they can indulge in their dictatorial fantasies.

Much of Indonesia's military and political establishment bitterly opposed allowing the half-island to go its own way in the late 1990s, for fear of a precedent that might unravel one of the world's most artificial countries.

Why haven't other utopian-minded people, like communists, tried to build artificial countries?

"Iraq looks like a very artificial country, but there's no evidence that breaking up countries makes them more democratic.

It was foolish to think of creating a modern democracy in an artificial country with a divided society like Iraq.

In Saddam's place they want another Sunni general or strongman who would be loyal to the west and prove able to hold together the artificial country that Britain created.

Ever since the formation of Iraq as a nation-state by European powers, it has been easy to dismiss it as an artificial country that was bound to fail.

Mr Sikorski claimed Mr Putin had said that "Ukraine is an artificial country and that Lwow [Lviv] is a Polish city and why don't we just sort it out together".The claim of a Russian offer was explosive, and dominated Polish media for much of the day Tuesday.

Given the dysfunctional status quo and the terrible toll it has exacted in terms of lives and resources, the West should put aside ideological dogmatism in favor of statesmanlike pragmatism and acknowledge the reality that, at least in some extreme cases, the best way to break a cycle of violence is to break up an artificial country in crisis and give it back to its very real people.

Namely, the PayPal founder Peter Thiel's megalomaniacal ambition to use some of his $1.5 billion fortune to build an artificial country off the coast of San Francisco an island based on the designs of oil rigs.