Sentence examples for undermined state from inspiring English sources

In many countries (predominantly high-aid countries, according to our latest categorisation) this is a sensible stricture, after years of aid that has undermined state development.

The occasional killings are bad enough, says the driver, but the corruption is even worse.Political violence has undermined state institutions, kept away foreign investment, crippled health care and education and increased inequality.

To his supporters, and there are many, Mr. Putin has simply tamed Gazprom and other big businesses that actively undermined state authority in the turbulent transition that followed the collapse of the Soviet command economy.

Second, growth of specific taxa of known endolithic habit such as the genus Gloecapsa[2] probably contributes to the undermined state of conservation exhibited by WM.

Periodic conflicts over the territories have undermined state consolidation efforts, most notably in 2008 when violence on the Georgian-South Ossetian border escalated into the "August War" between Georgia and the Russian Federation.

Central African Republic, which has reserves of diamonds, gold, and uranium, has seen a succession of coups since becoming an independent nation in 1960, and the resulting instability has undermined state authority.

The collapse of communism undermined state-sponsored elite sports in eastern Europe, but not before the nations of western Europe had begun to emulate their athletic adversaries by sponsoring scientific research, subsidizing elite athletes, and constructing vast training centres.

The Obama Administration, in other words, had been left with one argument — an argument that undermined states' rights and asserted federal dominion in order to shore up a position that it didn't want to defend on substantive grounds.

The Obama Administration, in other words, had been left with one argument an argument that undermined states' rights and asserted federal dominion in order to shore up a position that it didn't want to defend on substantive grounds.

In the companion case of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley claimed that Congress overstepped its authority and ran afoul of the Tenth Amendment in passing DOMA because the law undermined states' abilities to recognize marriage equality.

They also said that a market collapse could undermine state pension plans.