What is coming to take its place looks increasingly like a failed state.

Haiti has been a failed state almost from its start 200 years ago.

As many of you know, three years ago Georgia was basically a failed state.

Many observers now view the country as a 'failed state'.

Since this time some commentators have considered the country a failed state.

More than half of the city's markets failed state health inspections the first time around.

You have a straight face to say Liberia is a failed state.

There is no general consensus on the definition of a failed state.

But the West will still be called upon to prop up this totally failed state.

The international community cannot abandon this country and allow it to become one more failed state.

Sometimes i think i live in a failed state where its every man for himself.

But the world's most failed state still faces grave challenges.

We cannot simply call what we have done so far success and move on to the next failed state.

The failed state of Somalia is just the most glaring example.

Somalia is often referred to as the world's only "failed state".

Democracy was supposed to have prevented its decline into a failed state.

Politically and economically, it verges on being a failed state.

Moldova is very close to being defined as a failed state.

Since its last national government collapsed in 1991, Somalia has become the classic failed state.

One thing everyone in Washington should agree on is that we must not allow Iraq to become a failed state.

They characterized Afghanistan as a "failed state," one without a legitimate government.

At some colleges last year, up to 75 percent of prospective teachers failed state certification.

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For a generation, Somalia has been a symbol of the failed state - without an effective central government since 1991.

Natural disasters like drought will always hit Somalia hard because its a failed state.