Sentence examples for failure of a state from inspiring English sources

Seldom has the failure of a state been so openly and humiliatingly confirmed as happened in Libya this morning with the brief kidnapping the Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from his hotel in Tripoli by a militia allied to the government and without a shot being fired.

Although Sudan has been ranked among the countries that have large pastoral population size (Markakis 1998; Egemi 2008), it stands as a distinct example of the failure of a state to secure the rights of pastoralists (Babiker 2008; Sulieman 2015).

The gap between these groups - people with and without disabilities - is the most important metric of success or failure of a states ability to enable people with disabilities to gain jobs and economic independence.

Far from being a "Land of the Pure," Pakistan is one of the clearest demonstrations of the futility of defining a nation by religion, and one of the textbook failures of a state and a society.

Siberia's prison camps were the most tactile, horrific manifestation of the Soviet failure, of the moral bankruptcy of a state trying to ensure conformity through incarceration.

"No concrete evidence on the use of defeat devices or of the failure of a member state to act was ever brought to the attention of the commission," she said.

To the combustible mix we must add the real possibility of the failure of a nuclear state (Pakistan) under attack by the Taliban.

He added: "It really shows a failure of all states to properly commit themselves to this from the start.

US Senator John Kerry has warned that a failure of a two-state solution in the Middle East would be "disastrous", at his confirmation hearing as secretary of state.

The limit state of failure of a stay is one of the accidental events that must be considered in the design of cable stayed bridges.

Its objectives are to quantify the relative importance of the accidental ultimate limit state of failure of a stay in the design of the bridge, and to determine the safety level provided by the simplified procedure of using a static analysis with a D.A.F. of 2.0.