Sentence examples for collapse of authority from inspiring English sources

In the revolution's aftermath, as police officers disappeared from the streets, it came to symbolize the collapse of authority.

Many have darkly suggested that the government was behind the collapse of authority as a way to justify a crackdown or discredit protesters' calls for change.

The all-party committee is looking into the justification for the Libyan military intervention, and the subsequent collapse of authority inside Libya.

In most ways the afflicted region epitomises the collapse of authority: extremists control roads and markets; the government is powerless outside the capital; outsiders provide what little assistance exists.But not all failed or fragile states look like Somalia.

If the nineties were defined by untrammelled commerce and the collapse of authority, then the early Putin years, beginning with Putin's ascension to the Presidency, in 2000, were a time of increasingly centralized state power.

SANA, Yemen — Yemen's political crisis deepened Monday when an explosion tore through a crowd of looters at an abandoned government weapons factory in the south, killing at least 110 people and underscoring an ominous collapse of authority after six weeks of rising protests.

Henry's rule became lax and careless, resulting in a reduction in royal authority in the provinces and, ultimately, the collapse of his authority at court.

The change also reflected the urgency created by the collapse of Taliban authority.

The economic slump and the collapse of parliamentary authority call for a new mood of seriousness in public life.

Now the apparent collapse of central authority in Iraq has given the biggest boost yet to the independence movement.

With the collapse of Soviet authority in Moldavia in 1991, the Romanian-language version of the city's name once more came into official use.