Sentence examples for tottering government from inspiring English sources

Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, was installed as president, and he has since led a weakened and tottering government that is unable — and perhaps unwilling — to stop the trafficking.

A10 Peruvian Ministers Forced Out Two highly visible ministers, Prime Minister Roberto Dañino and Economics Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, said they would resign as part of a Cabinet reorganization intended to shore up the tottering government of President Alejandro Toledo.

And, indeed, at this very time, though circumstances made him so important, and in the danger of the tottering government he was recognized as the only or the ablest support of it, yet he well understood that he owed not his high position to any good-will or kindness, but to the mere necessities of the usurper.

They are jobless right now". And many Somalis bitterly recall that it was Washington, a cold war supporter of Somalia in the 1980's, who delivered planeloads of arms to the forces of Mr. Barre as late as 1988 when his tottering government was staving off a rebellion in Hargeisa, the major city in the northeast.

The conflict is another example of how Yemen's political turmoil has spawned violent skirmishes in outlying provinces, threatening to further destabilize of Yemen's tottering government.

But in the political tumult that surrounded Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, many Yemeni troops in the past year abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana to help support the tottering government.

Coloreds and Indians were decidedly second-class citizens, and tottering colonial governments in neighboring Angola and Rhodesia and Mozambique had ratcheted white fear in South Africa up to frenzied levels.

In fact it was Foot, newly revealed as a latter-day Machiavelli, who kept the Callaghan government tottering on until its final demise in 1979.

Robinson, 67, announced his intention to retire from frontline politics last November, days after signing a political deal with Sinn Féin and the British and Irish governments to stabilise the tottering administration.

By exploiting Afghanistan's metal and mineral reserves, China can provide thousands of Afghans with jobs, thus generating tax revenues to help stabilize a tottering Kabul government.

In yet another indication of the United States' concern, two senior military officials said that the Pentagon was dispatching dozens of military trainers to Yemen, resuming a program for the country's counterterrorism forces that was suspended last year when many troops abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana, the capital, to help support the tottering Saleh government.