Sentence examples for crumbling authority from inspiring English sources

It is an exercise in crumbling authority.

Yet this mysterious war seems to have more to do with the crumbling authority of the Yemeni state than with any single cause.

The current case against Mr. Musharraf centers on his decision to dismiss and place under house arrest Pakistan's top judges in November 2007, when he declared emergency rule in a bid to shore up his crumbling authority.

The Sunni state Saudi Arabia launched the air strikes on 26 March in an attempt to turn back the Iran-allied Shia Houthis, who control Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and restore some of Hadi's crumbling authority.

They appeal to the crumbling illusion of biblical and ecclesiastical perfection -- and the crumbling authority of authority itself.

In Diyarbakir, Reşid confronted crumbling state authority.

Timothy Dalton's Lord Asriel, an aristocratic Satan challenging a crumbling divine authority, mixes Miltonic pride with boyish adventurism.

The mid-term blues are a new and bruising experience for a third party which has built its parliamentary gains on a now crumbling local authority base.

Not long after Kennedy's death the country went from one crisis to another, stumbling through years of race riots and civil disobedience, the counterculture revolt, the crumbling of authority and the erosion of traditional values.

The crumbling of state authority, with parts of Libya now a war zone in a widening conflict between Islamist and tribal forces, has allowed people-smuggling to become big business.

With Soviet authority crumbling, Islamic vigilante groups had established security and social services that were lacking in the Fergana Valley, and after one extremist group seized a building, Mr. Karimov went to negotiate with its representatives.