Sentence examples for functioning as a state from inspiring English sources
Sierra Leone was barely functioning as a state when he became president in 1996.
So there's a huge detachment with these states acting and functioning as a state within other states.
Strategus, plural Strategi, Greek Stratēgos, plural Stratēgoi, in ancient Greece, a general, frequently functioning as a state officer with wider functions; also, a high official in medieval Byzantium.
Understanding of the cell cycle control logic in Caulobacter has progressed to the point where we now have an integrated view of the operation of an entire bacterial cell cycle system functioning as a state machine.
Federal regulation of state-owned railroads simply does not impair a state's ability to function as a state.
Indonesia has become a democracy but in Papua the army still seems to function as a state within the state.
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.
And federal regulation of state-owned railroads, whether freight or passenger, simply does not impair a state's ability to function as a state.
The area essentially functions as a state separate from the rest of Kosovo — with its own school system, civil servants and cellphone provider.
