Sentence examples for disintegrating forces from inspiring English sources

A mandala, delineating a consecrated place and protecting it against disintegrating forces represented in demoniac cycles, is the geometric projection of the universe, spatially and temporally reduced to its essential plan.

She also sees kinship and religion as the ties that configured socio-political relationships and worked against the disintegrating forces expressed by the mobility practiced by part of the population.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Jay Edgar Hoover's FBI program Counter Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, stood as one of the primary disintegrating forces in America's countercultural movement.

Louis IX, stricken in turn, dragged himself along in the rear guard of his disintegrating force.

As Saddam Hussein's regime was disintegrating, Kurdish forces swept into the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, seizing territories where there was or had been a Kurdish majority before Saddam Hussein's ethnic cleansing.

It was also tasked with plugging gaps in the line caused by the disintegrating Romanian forces.

In that event the security of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles will be compromised and some will likely fall into the hands of 'bad' rebel elements, not to mention Hezbollah or free agent elements of the disintegrating Syrian armed forces, previously loyal to Assad.

The Iraqi Army, driven from Kuwait by American-led forces, was disintegrating.

From the ground, however, there was no evidence that Taliban forces were disintegrating, at least for now.

The administration has also begun to think beyond Mr. Assad's fall by planning how to cope with a new wave of refugees, maintain basic municipal services, restart a devastated economy and prevent the security forces from disintegrating.

Special task-forces drawn from federal and local forces disintegrated in bickering.