Sentence examples for state machinery from inspiring English sources

Yet the state machinery still functions.

"The entire state machinery has collapsed.

Iran's state machinery now attacks the Baha'is at every level.

The entire state machinery exists to siphon off cash.

The writer's duty, said Greene, was to be "a piece of grit in the state machinery".

The outside world can offer assistance on how to reform Egypt's dysfunctional state machinery.

The baba cult is directly reflected in the architecture of the state machinery.

The drift of the voters is not unexpected, but few trusted the state machinery to conduct largely fair elections.

As one favourite method, Nicholas I made extensive use of ad hoc committees that stood outside the usual state machinery.

What is clear is that Zanu-PF is still trying to control things through all avenues of state machinery, even when power has slipped from their hands.

But their resentments were countered by a state machinery that encompassed detention without trial, an efficient secret police and, later, martial law.