Sentences with phrase «many failing states»

He brushed off claims that Catalonia would have a rough ride trying to turn itself into a nation and described Spain as a failed state.

These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

The result of all this is that fully one third of humanity is situated in countries where «failed state» conditions exist, and increasingly, those voids are being filled by Islamist extremism, with all its book burning, homosexual hanging, and adulteress burying.

SPRINGFIELD - State Senator Tom Cullerton is working with the Better Government Association to put a stop to bloated golden parachutes for failed state employees.

Belarus grows while Ukraine withers Goodluck Nigeria — a failed state?

too many compete for same jobs, so unemployment is increasing Loss of Jobs cause economic collapse, failed states, revolts and war.

Michigan is now a failed state.

They are victims of failed states — a reminder of the importance of well - governed societies for any global system of justice.

The country has been described as a failed state in permanent crisis.

Many of the migrants are not coming directly from failed states like Syria but through other states — like Turkey — that are stable.

However, the 2014 World Watch List (see full list below) from Open Doors International — which notes the increased impact of «failed states» and reveals its methodology for the first time — calculates a far lower total for Christian martyrdoms than recent estimates by other groups.

It attempts instrumentally to distinguish successful states from failing states and morally to distinguish those who share our loves from those who do not — whose love of other things is often the source of their incipient failure.

Six field goals allowed is a different sort of fail state, but also one that should be able to be overcome on a balanced team.

Allowing a TD is the ultimate fail state of the defense.

They have spent decades ordering poor countries and failed states to sort out their problems with dodgy money, even while taking much of that dodgy money and ploughing it through their banks, their ritzy stores, their estate agents, and their offshore tax havens — with barely any questions asked or eyebrows raised.

It thrives in a failed state.

It is not a failed state, but as its fragile state worsens, it is sliding down the path of becoming one» (pp.11 - 12).

Inclusiveness: Fund for Peace's «Failed State» Index 2014.

Mini-states like Latvia have it, failed states like Cyprus have it, but the City of London or Greenpeace do not.

Human rights: Fund for Peace's «Failed State» Index 2014.

Later, during the «war on terror», Ethiopia manipulated Washington's fears about failed states and Islamism to get US backing for an invasion of Somalia to quash the Union of Islamic Courts which was trying to reunite the country.

Opportunity: Fund for Peace's «Failed State» Index 2014.

Last week, Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace released their annual ranking of the world's failed states.

Security: Fund for Peace's «Failed State» Index 2014.

In short, to the French, Mali threatens to become a new Afghanistan: a failed state, and a haven for terrorists.

Even within «failed states» like Somalia, governance exists, it just isn't a state system, frequently organizing...

Justice: Fund for Peace's «Failed State» Index 2014.

Fears of al - Qaeda, anxieties that Yemen might yet become another Somalia (an unstable failed state), and the strength and conservatism of Saudi Arabia's influence, are all factors that point to international support for one of the rival factions opposing Saleh.

I give credit where credit's due; Gaddafi did an awesome job, and Libya is flirting with status as a failed state, with refugees drowning in the sea.

[1] These include terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, failed states and organized crime.

But an alternative barometer of KC liberalism would by the city's failed state school system, which recently lost its state accreditation.

He highlighted the bribery conviction of Cuomo's former closest aide, saying New Yorkers pay a «corruption tax» because of the cost of institutionalized graft and failed state - financed economic development projects.

Failed states represent significant security threats to the international community.

Is it enough just to keep the Taliban at bay or is it of vital importance that Afghanistan is a successful state rather than a weak or failed state?

North Korea is using this to increase tensions between the US and China, which it believes will not allow North Korea to be invaded / nuked or to become a failed state due to sanctions.

The state Board of Regents gave final approval to a rule change easing the requirement that districts provide extra help to all students who failed the state's math and English language arts tests.

But this does not look like happening anytime soon, and we may be entering a protracted period when Mali will be ranked as a failed state, with all of the problems that suggests.

Aggression is usually the first option instead of the last option, especially for a country or failed state that can not defend itself.

(I should also note that Goldfeder is an observant Jew who has experience running campaigns, including former NYC Councilman Simcha Felder's never - realized comptroller race and failed state Senate bid against Sen. Kevin Parker).

The application argued that no removals to Somalia should be taking place while the upper tribunal considers an appeal on UK country guidance about the failed state.

And he highlighted the bribery conviction of Cuomo's former closest aide, saying New Yorkers pay a «corruption tax» because the cost of institutionalized graft and failed state - financed economic development projects.

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

PLATTSBURGH The city will move forward with plans to reconstruct a footbridge over the Saranac River that was removed two years ago after failing a state inspection.

All but five failed the state heat requirements for renters, yet management company PK Management still sent a letter to its residents demanding they pay rent on time or face eviction.

«But for President Buhari's integrity, Nigeria under former President Goodluck Jonathan was heading and drifting towards anarchy and a failed state.

He made clear that a failed state was unacceptable as it would provide an opportunity for international terrorists to plan and launch attacks against Britain.

Togbui oo, Mama oo, ladies and gentlemen, events such as today's are meant to remember and affirm our deep - rooted association with a momentous period in Ghana's history when patriotic men and women of this country took a bold step to confront a state of decline that had led the international community to write Ghana off as a failed state.

Right now, Syria is likely to end up as a failed state, separated into at least 3 distinct regions, with no central authority.

Foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed that Afghanistan would become a «failed state» if the international community pulled out of the country.

At 6:30 p.m., Hochul will provide remarks at a screening of Alexander Shebanow's Film «Fail State», LaGuardia Community College, Little Theatre, Building E, 31 10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens.