Sentence examples for criminal state from inspiring English sources

"The Russian state is a criminal state.

"They're a murderous, criminal state.

Meanwhile, 2800 miles away in Oregon, a law student is researching the relationship between the civil and criminal state codes.

Apocryphal or not, it touches on a deep fear among millions of Chinese today — that their government may be dissolving into a criminal state.

Then, with the right "political will, the world could quickly agree on remedies to disarm a criminal state clearly unable to feed its own population".

It fuels both graft and the Taliban, and a senior UN official recently warned that it risked turning Afghanistan into a fragmented criminal state.

New Mexico ranks 48th in forcible rape and 47th in aggravated assault according to The Criminal States of America.

The terminology he used evoked the concept of an Unrechtstaat, normally used to describe totalitarian or criminal states such as the German Democratic Republic or the Nazi state.

The NATO secretary general, Lord Robertson, similarly urged allies "to think carefully about the role of this alliance in the future, not least in protecting our citizens from criminal terrorists and criminal states".

The catch-all pre-criminal state of "dangerousness" is defined as any behaviour that contradicts socialist norms.

No longer the sole preserve of the teenager in a bedroom, hacking is a powerful tool used by organised criminals, state-sponsored "cyber armies" and so-called hacktivists.