Sentence examples for collapse of the stated from inspiring English sources

The equanimity with which Americans regard the collapse of the stated purpose of the Iraq war -- its necessity to prevent Saddam Hussein's use of weapons of mass destruction -- is a measure of the broad acceptance of the war's more abstract purpose: to oppose evil.

Ultimately, this meant the collapse of the state.

It is the result of the collapse of the state's Republicans.

But the collapse of the state he heads is continuing apace by any measure.

"This would only mean one thing for our country: the collapse of the state.

A military solution would lead to the collapse of the state.

The end of the Cold War saw the collapse of the state-subsidised national cinemas of eastern Europe.

Egypt's top general raised the specter of a "collapse of the state" if civilian leaders failed to restore order.

He said that the transition "should not be allowed to lead to the collapse of the state and its institutions".

The total collapse of the state marks the final, extreme phase of state failure, and very few states can be described as completely failed or collapsed.

The collapse of the state, as opposed to an orderly transition of the ruling regime, would be catastrophic.