Sentence examples for failing state from inspiring English sources

This is a vision diametrically opposed to that of the West where the most common question is whether Pakistan is a failed or failing state.

Let's hope, too, that Pakistan, by many definitions a failing state, does not become a failed state.

The former spy chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha told the commission: "We are a failing state even if we are not yet a failed state".

His country was a traumatised, failing state.

That Nigeria is a failing state is unarguable.

Mr Uribe inherited a failing state in 2002.

This also raises the odds of becoming a failing state.

In a failing state, that is how things work.

IS's attempt to exploit the vacuum of a failing state could tip it back into conflict.

Its first store was one of eight acquired from a failing state-owed chain.

In 1989, at the government's behest, he took over a failing state-owned canning factory in his hometown of Hangzhou.