Sentence examples for breakdown in authority from inspiring English sources

Chronic staff shortages contributed in part to a breakdown in authority and increasing instability ultimately led to prisoners policing themselves, the investigation found.

The Interior Ministry, whose police officers have been in open revolt against Mr. Morsi, issued its own statement endorsing the military's intervention — another reminder of the breakdown in authority over the holdover institutions of the Mubarak government.

Women, though, have also taken advantage of another aspect of the breakdown in authority — by speaking out through the newly aggressive news media, defying social taboos to demand attention for a problem the old government often denied.

Chronic staff shortages contributed in part to a breakdown in authority and increasing instability that led to the riot, an investigation led by a former prison service director found.

Conservatives blamed a breakdown in church authority and sexual self-control.

The country is on a downward spiral, with a breakdown in central authority, rampant corruption, a booming heroin trade and increasingly sophisticated attacks by militants on both sides of the Pakistan border.

Admiral Mullen cited, for instance, the need to "move forward" and increase engagement with tribal leaders in Afghanistan, an acknowledgment that the breakdown in central authority in Afghanistan has been accelerated by rampant corruption within the government of President Hamid Karzai.

But as the weekend approached, Yanukovych faced not only a standoff in Kiev but also a breakdown in his authority across the west of the country, where activists have seized administrative buildings in a number of cities and built barricades around them.

But for Mr. Lawson, they are evidence of a complete breakdown in training and authority in the Iraqi prison system.

Two republics, Croatia and Slovenia, unilaterally declared independence on June 25, beginning a breakdown in central government authority and leading to conflict.

One senator who had been briefed on the material said some of it was sexually explicit and suggested a "total breakdown in discipline and authority" at the prison.