Sentence examples for crumbling order from inspiring English sources

CAIRO — The future of the Arab world, perched between revolt and the contempt of a crumbling order, was fought for in the streets of downtown Cairo on Wednesday.

But let's not forget that it was New Labour – despite some humanising tweaks – and the Tories who propped up this crumbling order.

Most of his colleagues regard the crumbling order in the region as a fulfilment of their ambitions in Iraq – which had remained unfinished business, until the war in Syria gave them a new arena.

Herzen, heartbroken by the developments, announced that he was turning inward: if society was not ready to be liberated from a crumbling order, individuals could at least save themselves, as he put it, "from the danger of falling ruins".

All those involved are framing suggested responses to the chaos through their own interests, which rarely align even with allies and don't amount to a strategy to stop the crumbling order.

He savored a sausagey forkful of pasta: "This is one of the best examples of this dish I've ever tasted!" It almost goes without saying that the vigilante is usually an older white man — a pillar of the crumbling order — but Caine observed that this film's villains are "every bloody color.

In 1910, amid the crumbling social order of European middle-class society, Weber began a series of important discussions with George and his close disciple, the poet Friedrich Gundolf.

In many ways, Mr. Letta's government is the triumph of a crumbling political order fighting to maintain its grip on Italy.

Of Powell's crumbling social order, he suggests "the great solvent of course was World War II and I now see that nobody ever wrote of it better".

There is worse news: Venezuela's crumbling political order could have a spillover effect on regional stability and Colombia's fragile peace — as well as encourage the global expansion of transnational organized criminal and terrorist networks.

O'Connor's most profound gift was her ability to describe impartially the bourgeoisie she was born into, to depict with humor and without judgment her rapidly crumbling social order.