Sentence examples for left of the state from inspiring English sources

"It seems to have no strategy to speak of when it comes to preserving what's left of the state, wooing the Alawites within the regime or reaching out to those who don't know who to hate most, the regime or the opposition".

Mr Rutelli also promises to speed up liberalisation and to sell off what is left of the state's holdings.

One would authorize the borrowing of $200 million to save some of what's left of the state's rapidly diminishing open space.

Though defeated, the pro-Gaddafi supporters might not give up the fight, and they may well attempt to destabilize the political process using violence and terror, especially when policing and intelligence-capacity remains too sourly inadequate to safeguard what is left of the state establishments.

Talladega County has been an imperfect barometer, however, consistently leaning several percentage points to the left of the state.

It was one percentage point to the left of the state in 2008 and 2004, after being three percentage points more Democratic in 2000.

Jennifer Rubin: What will be left of the State Department after Tillerson?

(Remember the President's arts and humanities committee? Or the business advisory councils?) Still, a few people remain in what's left of the State Department; some people have joined the Administration with the explicit goal of using their expertise to help minimize damage.

FANCY a brush with the nasty side of what is left of the Russian state?

On the one hand, the global financial crisis – and the ensuing push to bail out the banks – desiccated whatever was left of the welfare state.

Bush's 2003 invasion destroyed what was left of the Iraq state, and his mismanagement of the postwar phase unleashed a conflict between a deeply divided nation.