Sentence examples for violent disintegration from inspiring English sources

The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia has given many things to the world.

The statute avoided the need for a more violent disintegration of the empire.

Her grandmother was loving, but at six Marina was returned to her parents' home to witness the slow, violent disintegration of their marriage.

While the main foreign policy event of the book is the violent disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, Halberstam also covers Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti.

Eight years after Yugoslavia's violent disintegration Slobodan Milosevic, its shrewd, manipulative leader, together with four senior colleagues, faces unprecedented charges of mass deportation and murder on a scale not seen in Europe since the darkest days of the Nazi era.

In 1902, the young daughter of cochineal farmers witnesses the violent disintegration of her family; in 1954, the wife of an ambassador has an affair with her husband's best friend; in 1983, a missionary experiences misgivings; and, in 1999, an adoptive mother takes her Mayan daughter on a trip to explore her roots.

'Anytime you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am"... the end is pretty much in sight.' Buried within the corpse-ridden soil of Cormac McCarthy's gripping novel of violent social disintegration is a deceptively innocent question: is the world getting worse or are we all just getting older?

Inevitably, the smallest misdemeanour results in violent beatings or disintegration, as Andy evolves from victim to hero to peevish thug.

The presence of UN troops in Yugoslavia during the violent and protracted disintegration of that country renewed discussion about the role of UN troops in refugee resettlement.

Yes, there are aspects of western society that we don't like, they say, but they are the aspects that the west itself regards as problematic: widespread drug abuse, violent crime, the disintegration of the family, teenage pregnancies, lack of sense of community, rampant consumerism.

Baudrillard alludes here to the expectation of "violent eruptions and sudden disintegration which will come, just as unforeseeably and as certainly May 68, to wreck this white mass" [of consumption] (1998: 196).