Sentence examples for artificial states from inspiring English sources
Iraq was one of the artificial states to emerge.
"You're seeing in these artificial states, these pressures that have been in play for decades, for almost a hundred years.
At best, those artificial states could hope for a day when their people would set aside their more primal loyalties in favor of a broader sense of nationhood.
The tribes and sects that make up these more artificial states have long been held together by the iron fist of colonial powers, kings or military dictators.
Carved into artificial states after the first world war, it's been bombed and occupied – by the US, Israel, Britain and France – and locked down with US bases and western-backed tyrannies.
Since the end of the First World War, both Iraq and Syria have been artificial states, drawn from the ruins of a fallen empire with little regard for sect, tribe, or ethnicity.
It has to be modified, joint by joint, muscle by muscle, and thereafter maintained in its artificial state.
It is truly an artificial state, its Hashemite ruling family keeping their unpromising patch of desert viable in large part by skillfully handling relations with the West.
There is some nervousness that it might also target Jordan, another "artificial" state that was created by Britain in the aftermath of the first world war.
Syria is Iraq's twin: an artificial state that was also born after World War I inside lines drawn by imperial powers.
