The collapse of state authority and the rule of thugs and criminals pose a security threat.
All they knew was that they were made redundant five times before, in the tough years that followed the collapse of state socialism, so they felt resignation rather than shock.
Even as much of their country prospers, environmental problems are so severe in the impoverished north and west (along the Russian border) that, in tandem with the collapse of state-owned enterprises, they've created at least 100 million economic and ecological refugees.
And I think it's important, particularly for business leaders here, to understand that fact, that if you see a complete collapse in state and local government spending on basic needs, that that could create a very bad business climate for all of you.
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It details the collapse of a state through corrupt neglect and direct criminal activity.
Whichever way state collapse is assessed, it will always be an imperfect measure of priorities for policymakers.
Their divorce on August 25th, bringing the collapse of the state government, will have repercussions far beyond India's largest state.
On Tuesday, Egyptian army chief Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi warned that the political crisis could lead to the collapse of the state.
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"Although it may appear attractive in the short-term, the one scenario that must be avoided is sudden, uncontrolled state collapse, " Sir Paul insisted.
Sending Western troops into Syria too soon could create a power vacuum and a "sudden, uncontrolled state collapse", a retired British general has warned.
At least until the 1990s, when the collapse of the state sector began in earnest, workers aspired to be party members because membership gave them power.
What this Administration most fears in that area of south-central Asia is the collapse of the state in Pakistan and the inability to produce governability in Afghanistan.
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The working assumption is that power is theft and that when its venal rulers are not actively thieving they are passive connivers in the collapse of the state.
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The new study identifies the corruption and failures of the Sierra Leone army as one of the key elements that led to the collapse of the state in the 1990s and details its demise in admirable detail.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where much of the population lives on the edge of subsistence, poverty and slow economic growth, or outright decline, increased the likelihood of future state collapse, thereby trapping the countries in a vicious circle of poverty and political instability.
Britain and France say they want to even up the military balance of power to open a space for a political solution that does not involve the Assads, but avoids a collapse of the state in the way that spread chaos in Libya and Iraq.
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN this week, echoed concerns about what a collapse of the Egyptian state could mean for the broader region.
If one were to try to measure the state of the atom, it would "collapse" into a single state.
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If banks benefit from permanent state protection against collapse, then perhaps we need to make explicit that there is a contract between banks and state that they should never ever take steps to reduce their tax burden.
The East German state feared collapse if it could not hold its most productive citizens.
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This belief is in a state of collapse, largely for the reason Mr. Axelrod described.
Begin with the fact, little noticed by the left, that much of the old religious right is in a state of collapse.
That conflict was marked by ever-shifting alliances, fragmentation of territory into fiefs and a collapse of the central state, which by the war's end in 1990 was headed by two rival claimants.
As a result, what we are facing is not a few bad years of slow growth like this past recession, but a fundamental shift -- the end of cheap resources and an environment in a state of collapse.
Former Soviet-dominated states in Eastern Europe, Some European states learning the painful lessons of the collapse of the welfare state, South American nations which are breaking away from left and right wing populism, parts of the long-suffering continent of Africa, Asian city states with low margins for error, swaths of the world are embracing as precious what we throw off as threadbare: economic liberty.
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The bridge carries about 67, 000 cars a day, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation, and delays from the collapse are likely to be significant, the state said.
"After 25 January, the police was in a state of complete collapse, " he tells me.
Something has to give, and it may finally be the strapped state budgets that collapse first.
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The American and global economies were never close to a state of economic collapse.
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