Sentence examples for state of communications from inspiring English sources

It was impossible to be a despot while financial resources were so precarious, while no nationwide police force existed, and while the state of communications remained so poor.

Activists also said that the death toll could be much higher but that a comprehensive and accurate count was almost impossible, given the state of communications, the siege and the difficulty of moving around.

Analysts say the calm could be misleading, given that the poor state of communications in East Timor means that the news of the attacks will take some time to filter back to the insurgents, who are hiding in the hills south of Dili.

There were reports on Monday that the Nationals would push to wrest the communications portfolio from the Liberals given the state of communications infrastructure remains a huge political issue in the bush, but there are mixed views about the merits of this.

"It reminds me of a joke," Tangney says of the current state of communications tools for physicians.

The sheer size of data is too large, and in spite of all intricate programs for detecting suspicious messages, computers that register billions of data are too stupid to interpret and evaluate them properly, ridiculous mistakes where innocent bystanders are listed as potential terrorists occur necessarily – and this makes state control of communications even more dangerous.

And now it's India's turn: threatening to block RIM, Google and Skype unless the companies agree to set up localised servers, all the better for state monitoring of communications.

Also giving evidence to the committee, Richard Alcock, director of the Home Office's oversight program for state use of communications data, suggested senior civil servants have a different interpretation on the encryption requirements vs those reassuring statements from senior government ministers about 'not banning encryption'.

But Mr. Babbio expressed caution about the state of the communications equipment industry, in which Lucent is the largest manufacturer.

The index ranks 61 countries according to the economic, political and social impact of the web, the state of their communications and institutional infrastructure, the availability of web content and services, and the extent of web use.

He also had to restore morale following the bombing of Darwin on 19 February and deal with the threat of imminent invasion, tasks complicated by the poor state of local communications, transport and early warning systems.