Sentence examples for the state collapsing from inspiring English sources

With the state bureaucracy, army general staff and security services packed with Alawites, it is almost impossible to get rid of Mr Assad and his regime, whose leaders come from the Alawite community, without the state collapsing, leaving a vacuum to be filled by Isis and its al-Qaeda counterparts.

"There is no way out for this country but more of the same; if they acknowledge past wrongs, the chances of the regime and the state collapsing are high".

"I still don't see the state collapsing like in Syria or Iraq, but yes I believe the situation is currently more dangerous than it has been in previous years, and if it is not addressed properly it will only exacerbate.

Awash with weapons, the state collapsed.

Nobody's rights in Egypt will be furthered if the state collapses into anarchy or fundamentalist absolutism.

In 2007, he was among the first batch of national army recruits to be trained abroad after the state collapsed.

Attacks on Turkey's security forces have increased since a ceasefire between Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) militants and the state collapsed in July.

Some reckon Somalia is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis, worse than in the early 1990s, when the state collapsed amid famine and slaughter.In this section Weakness or a new realism?

As heavy rain continued falling late Thursday, homes, bridges and small dams built along the mountains that bisect the state collapsed, succumbing to rushing floodwaters and record levels of rainfall.

When the researchers measure the atom's position, the state collapses to just one spot.

"The political center of the state collapsed today".