Sentence examples for collapsing state from inspiring English sources

But amid the rubble of a collapsing state, I kept stumbling into something wonderful.

Although Mr. Kerry's remarks raised the specter of a collapsing state, he laid the blame entirely on Mr. Assad.

The reasons for the gun battle were unclear, but the large number of dead soldiers stoked fears of a collapsing state.

The body was a bit of a sham, even to some of its own members; no one really agreed on what it was supposed to do — provide a cover for the American occupation or help rule a collapsing state.

After both televised addresses vast throngs gleefully defied the curfew, freshly deployed soldiers ignored the revellers and the head of the army warned of a collapsing state, prompting rumours of an imminent coup.

"Let's be honest, Kyrgyzstan is turning into a collapsing state, or at least part of it is, and what was partially responsible is this geopolitical tug of war we had," said Alexander A. Cooley, who included Manas in a recent book about the politics of military bases.

War, famine, Aids, collapsing states: everything is falling to pieces.

Remember: Outside of the disorder of collapsing states, these weapons are almost never seen or inventoried by researchers.

Crashing markets and collapsing banks make people fear for their jobs, crashing armies and collapsing states make people fear for their lives.

The same worldly-wise adage applies these days to the entire Arab region, wracked by collapsing states, terrorism, sectarianism, proxy wars and alliances of the strangest bedfellows.

Terrorist threats and the rise of militia politics are intricately linked in the Middle East's three rapidly collapsing states.