Sentence examples for function as a state from inspiring English sources

Indonesia has become a democracy but in Papua the army still seems to function as a state within the state.

After the fighting that is raging today it could cease to function as a state.As the world looks on (or away), the country jammed between Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Israel is disintegrating.

The losses have compromised their ability to function as a state, experts said.

This panelled room was redecorated in 1841 for the visit of Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, when its former function as a state bedroom was resurrected.

The (in ability to effectively inhibit behavior is thought to function as a state, that is immediately responsive to "abrupt environmental, physiological, or emotional events" (De Wit, 2009).

A radical Islamic cleric once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe says that Syria can no longer function as a nation state, and will be permanently fragmented into zones controlled by various rebel groups.

So there's a huge detachment with these states acting and functioning as a state within other states.

Sierra Leone was barely functioning as a state when he became president in 1996.

Structured like the regular Army, the National Guard functions as a state militia, typically called out for natural disasters or civil disorder.

Hosni Mubarak's Egypt has long functioned as a state where wealth bought political power and political power bought great wealth.

The A.N.C., he said, "functions as a state within the state, and it thinks it is the state" — hardly the stuff of an exception, let alone a renaissance.