Sentence examples for bandit state from inspiring English sources

Chechnya became a bandit state, with the rebel commanders and teip leaders fighting for control of lucrative shady businesses.Moreover, the peace deal left one question open: Chechnya's independence.

In 1996 Moscow signed a truce with the rebels, which postponed a final decision on Chechnya's status and left it to continue its metamorphosis into a quasi-independent bandit state.

Mr Poroshenko has called the separatists "terrorists" intent on maintaining a "bandit state".

The remaining nine years of his life consisted of a series of wars: against a recurring series of terrible attacks; against the "bandit states" of Europe; and against the bureaucratic, Brit-hating wartime culture of Washington.

"But then political enlightenment is not to be expected from a man who maintains that 'I don't see [America] as less evil than the bandit states it has recently fought'".

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The state-of-the-art facility is in a remote area known locally as "bandit country" because many cars stolen in Manchester are abandoned in the Carrington area.

Lochaber was bandit country".

In one instance he made a statement that he would promote the first officer to kill a bandit and stated, "I don't believe there is a single bandit notch on a policeman's guns in this city, go out and get some".

"There should be no concessions from the state towards bandits' relatives, anyone who was aware of preparations for a terrorist attack but did not report to law-enforcement bodies should be imprisoned… There should be a life sentence for terror, the death penalty for organisers".

And Federal legislation eliminated the bandits' advantage of crossing state lines to avoid capture by the local sheriff.