Sentence examples for functioning state from inspiring English sources

It's been another week of uh-oh spaghetti ohs for Britain's barely functioning state and its entirely non-functioning leader.

The reconstruction of Haiti will need a legitimate, functioning state.

The end of Pakistan as a viable, functioning state?

Culpable negligence by the Bush administration left post-Saddam Iraq without a functioning state.

Their political philosophy menaces the functioning state on which political order depends.

We have put in place functioning state institutions including police and armed forces.

Syrians didn't decide out of the blue to destroy a properly functioning state.

Without a functioning state (in Libya, Yemen, Iraq) terrorists will behave opportunistically.

He is keener on building a functioning state than building a democracy.

Equally importantly, Nagorno-Karabakh's 140,000 Armenians have built a small but functioning state.

Zwara's few functioning state-owned factories have ground to a halt.