Sentence examples for as a state within from inspiring English sources

It has often been described as a state within a state.

Most Lebanese want Hizbullah to lose its status as a state within a state.

Gazprom, one of the world's largest corporations, is not so much a company as a state within the state.

So there's a huge detachment with these states acting and functioning as a state within other states.

Let's go to the U.N., get recognized as a state within the 1967 borders and fight Israel that way".

Indonesia has become a democracy but in Papua the army still seems to function as a state within the state.

Mr Erdogan has decried their work as that of "a state within a state".

The ruling Hashemite authorities in Jordan grew increasingly alarmed by the PLO's activities, as they established a "state within a state", providing military training and social welfare services to the Palestinian population, bypassing the Jordanian authorities.

He already runs Chechnya as his personal fiefdom, a state within a state, and will now gain even greater control.

As ever, magic is a state within a state, a secret in plain sight, and part of the fun is being let in on the secret.

"The rebels have started carrying out some development work as if they are already running a state within the state," he says.