Sentence examples for described as failed from inspiring English sources

AFGHANISTAN, Iraq and Somalia are among the 50 or so countries that can be described as failed or failing states.

The movie might be described as failed camp.

Unlike the bloated movie, which might be described as failed camp, the stage version of this Jazz Age fantasy is post-camp.

In sharp language, he linked Mr. Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryan, to what he long described as failed trickle-down economic policies that favor the wealthy, reflecting what has become a central theme.

Turkey and Iran can't really be described as failed states, and the rule of Iran's mullocracy, now much loathed by most Iranians, arose not from some deep religious rage but, as Lewis acknowledges, from a modern revolutionary movement, supported initially by many Iranians who were not especially religious.

The robust australopithecines of South Africa are often described as failed humans, having died out 1 million to 1.4 million years ago.

"When you see Haiti in the press, it is almost always described as a failed state," he said.

South Sudan, the world's newest nation, is in flames this week with up to 500 people feared dead after what its President described as "a failed coup".

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.

Flanked by sober-suited supporters, a doctor in a white coat, the head of the state NAACP and one very conservative Republican congressman, Newsom called the Adult Use of Marijuana Act – which was bankrolled by Napster founder Sean Parker – "a game changer", an antidote to what he described as the failed and racist war on drugs.

The order to place the ISI under the Ministry of Interior, which is currently headed by Rahman Malik, a close associate of Asif Ali Zardari, the chairman of Pakistan Peoples Partyy, was described as a "failed civilian coup" by Ikram Sehgal, a defense and military analyst in an op-ed piece Thursday in The News, the country's leading English daily.