Sending Western troops into Syria too soon could create a power vacuum and a "sudden, uncontrolled state collapse", a retired British general has warned.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is true that Christina Santiago died in the Indiana State Fair stage collapse, that she worked for the Lesbian Comunnity Care Project and (apparently) that her partner was also injured.
If one were to try to measure the state of the atom, it would "collapse" into a single state.
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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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But like anything emerging from Athens these days, the sharp increase seen in January has to be viewed in a rather dismal context, including coming cuts in state support, the collapse of panel prices and most importantly, the long path to recovery and normalcy for the Greek economy.
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.
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.
Many earth buildings survive in a serious state of neglect or partial collapse.
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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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.
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.
State authorities on Friday morning blamed the collapse on a truck that hit the bridge.
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U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the collapse underscored the "urgent need" for the Bangladesh government, as well as the factory owners, buyers and labor groups, to improve working conditions in the country.
As in other OCED countries whose populations are aging rapidly, Germany's pay-as-you-go state pension plan is on the verge of collapse.
Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
The recession and low oil prices (not to mention the collapse of Enron) have swung the state from budget surplus to its largest-ever projected deficit.
The wall of the reservoir could collapse within a day or a week, Environment State Secretary Zoltan Illes said.
It has also put Spain and Portugal under review, amid fears that high wage costs will prolong their recessions, as well as Ireland because of the collapse in its housing-related revenues and its state guarantees to banks.
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Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also spoke at the unveiling, and said the collapse of the Soviet Union should give encouragement to those seeking greater freedom today in the Middle East and north Africa.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also addressed the defense minister's warning of a collapse.
Last month, 36 years after the original Wanniski-Mundell sit-down, Mundell sat down again with another frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Judy Shelton, and held forth on the sorry state of the world economy and what must be done to save it from collapse.
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