Sentence examples for very weak state from inspiring English sources

I'm not asking for all of Palestine, just a rubbish state, a very weak state.

Despite a history of often brutal central dictatorship, Russia has always had a very weak state.

Congo is the size of all of western Europe, with a very weak state.

"It has a very, very weak state capacity, and that's not helped by a massive financial crunch at the moment," he said.

The recent history of Pakistan, much of Africa, and Afghanistan in the 1970s shows what is likely to happen when the military is the only strong institution in a very weak state.

He warned the economy was not immune from turbulence overseas, pointing to slowing levels of growth in the Chinese economy, the "very weak" state of the eurozone and disappointing American job figures.

The idea that individuals could use their private firearms to mount a serious challenge to government hegemony is only plausible in very weak states.

In hindsight, some experts say, it was hardly wise to lend so lavishly to a very weak Soviet state deep in financial crisis.

The top part of the valence band in these compounds is dominated by occupied N 2p states due to the very weak contributions from O 2p states distributed over a wide energy range in the deeper part of the valence band, which caused the shifting of the absorption spectra.

Catherine McKinnell, a Treasury spokesman for Labour, said: "These very disappointing figures underline the weak state of our economy which has now flatlined for over two and half years.

"We're still in a very weak fiscal condition in the State of New York," Mr. Megna said.