Sentence examples for collapse of states from inspiring English sources
The next ten-worst performers are even more mixed.The collapse of states is as varied as the states themselves.
For the last few years, California stood more or less unchallenged as a symbol of the fiscal collapse of states during the recession.
They may be victims of the changing nature of conflicts: fewer wars between states but more violence associated with the collapse of states (such as Syria, Somalia and the CAR).
Ethnic or religious hatred, however, persisted, as did the chaos attendant upon the collapse of states that proved incapable of maintaining themselves in the face of fissiparous pressures from below and corruption or gross incompetence from above.
But the swift and serial collapse of states across the Middle East and north Africa, from Iraq to Eritrea, has precipitated a mass flight that the secretary general of the Norwegian refugee council, Jan Egeland, believes is the worst since 1945.
The G7 Foreign Ministers can take a leading role in avoiding the increased weakening and even total collapse of states and societies threatened by fragility challenges.
The rise of Islamic State has awoken fears over failures of national governance and the collapse of nation states.
The collapse of state tax revenues caused by the recession is the sharpest on record.
State failure comes in degrees and is often a function of both the collapse of state institutions and societal collapse.
