Sentence examples for social disarray from inspiring English sources

And the free-for-all aspect of Gems's script matches the prevailing sense of social disarray.

But let's hope that whatever social disarray this will cause, every penny of new lottery revenues helps pay the state's $8 billion backlog of bills.

His administration has made little headway in confronting Indonesia's urgent problems of economic collapse, political and social disarray and continuing violence.

His mother, Esther, a Hebrew teacher who grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx in the 1960s, is less than thrilled that her son might consider areas that she remembers from her childhood as roiled by crime and social disarray.

It was as if the country's longstanding ills — whether a seething Islamic insurgency in the south, a corrupt legal and security bureaucracy or just an innate tendency toward social disarray — would be all but impossible to overcome.

Fischl, from Long Island, by way of Arizona, and a CalArts classmate of Salle's, is a painterly storyteller, whose initial tales stung as dramatizations of psychological and social disarray.

His films expose the social and spiritual disarray beneath what has been called the Chinese economic miracle.

Fragmentation is intricate social and personal disarray in the charming if doleful picaresque of "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man," underrated when it appeared.

No country has displayed more of a "backslide in democracy" than Greece, the British thinktank Demos has said in a study highlighting the crisis-plagued country's slide into economic, social and political disarray.

Azerbaijan's detachment from a central government and the ensuing social and government disarray meant Mr. Abramov, a mechanical engineer, did not receive his $100-a-month 100-a-monthmonths.

In Haïti, natural disasters and disease outbreaks, compounded by social divisions, state disarray and political instability, have resulted in a succession of "routinized ruptures" [ 27].