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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shadow state" can be used in written English.
It usually refers to a state power or authority that operates secretly or illegally, or a situation which resembles a real political state. For example: "The criminal enterprise had infiltrated all levels of government, creating a shadow state that threatened the rule of law."
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The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition.
And rule by cabal or by a shadow state was the subject of dozens of thrillers and Hollywood movies.
As the only effective force in many areas, the Taliban are beginning to build a shadow state.
Does a shadow state run by Serco, Capita and the rest do anything to empower anybody, apart from those companies?
Gülen, once a crucial ally, had become the leader of a shadow state, determined to bring down the Administration.
The growth of a huge shadow state, manned by private firms and built on monopoly contracts, has proceeded by increments.
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— and "shadow states," such as Mexico and Ukraine, which cling, suckerfish-like, to the fortunes of larger neighbors.
Brisson [32] introduced a pixel-level statistical GMM learning to build shadow states by assuming that shadow states are more stable (i.e., more frequent) than foreground states.
We incorporate shadow states, indicating reverse encoded exons and introns, into the state model of our metastate HMM, denoted by the primitives by ê and î, respectively.
For the first time, two of the three 'great offices of state' are shadowed by women.
The PEO curves define the required mean received SNR to ensure a 1% PER at the receiver in a given percentage of the shadowing states.
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