Sentence examples for shattered state from inspiring English sources

Symbolically, the shattered state of the Knicks was never more evident.

Syria, after almost five years of war, is strewn with the rubble of a shattered state, a fractured society, and a demolished landscape.

When he was elected President, in 2003, Karzai was handed a shattered state run by warlords whose armies were far more powerful than his own.

Where Iraq is an urban, oil-rich country with an educated middle class, Afghanistan is a shattered state whose social fabric and physical infrastructure has been ruined by three decades of war.

A16 Governor Faces Tough Critics While struggling to rebuild a shattered state, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana, who has been mocked as weepy and indecisive by radio talk show hosts and snubbed by the White House, which did not invite her to a recent announcement on levee protection, is also working to repair her wounded reputation.

However, there are signs that the shattered state could be turning a corner.

Should we stop sending police experts to help rebuild shattered states?

Syria and Iraq are more or less shattered states; it is unlikely that they will be put back together in their previous shapes.

Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas, describing with particular passion the glass octopus vulgaris in the Cornell collection, carefully restored from its shattered former state.

There have been growing calls for ministers to take action following claims that several hundred thousand women born in the 1950s have had their retirement plans "shattered" by state pension age increases.

At the same time, because it will take decades to rebuild the shattered Somali state, the outside world must itself engage directly with Puntland's clans and help rebuild villages, infrastructure and fisheries which have been ravaged by foreign trawlers and the dumping of toxic waste.