The body was in an advanced state of putrefaction.

In this instance, the price is that you break your engagement to Miss Francon.

What unites them, above all, is a process of competitive decadence.

Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the decadence of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.

In fact, the consequences of leadership degeneration are easy to see faltering economic dynamism and growth, rising social tensions, and loss of government credibility.

In addition to the continued disruption of the peace and stability of many States by raging internal conflicts, there are problems that require urgent action.

Even in the absence of any of these factors, however, septic arthritis may be present.

He warned that if Europe s attitude to NATO did not change, the Alliance would degenerate into collective military irrelevance.

Created by the presidential administration two months before the December parliamentary elections, Motherland split and practically collapsed two months after its amazing victory.

We have seen examples of this in the past few years, for instance in the dissolution of obsolete but heretofore sovereign States Members of the United Nations.

The most lethal strain of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites. The most visible symptom is corruption, but the cause is intrinsic to autocratic rule.

The EU is not proof of the decay of the nation state. It teaches us, instead, that nationalism (if respected) can become a responsible force for broader international cooperation.

Substantial corrections will be required to the entire political agenda, which, multiplied by the astonishing ideology of building national capitalism in one country, is currently too reminiscent of the policies that led to the Soviet Union s disintegration.

Alas, these positive developments, which could have generated trust, could not be sustained and were quickly followed by the unravelling of a fragile peace in which even children and schools have not been spared.

When I submitted the addendum to my last report (S 25354 Add.1), a detailed assessment of the extent of the disintegration of the Somali justice system and the destruction of its infrastructures had not been made.

The Committee notes with particular concern the tendency towards the breakdown of family culture as regards abandoned children, abortion, the divorce rate, the number of adoptions, the number of children born out of wedlock and recovery of maintenance obligations.

In Somalia, the break up of organized society and the ensuing large scale violence and starvation underline the need for the careful coordination of peace keeping, peacemaking and peace building endeavours.

The problem with this Germanophobia is not simply that it is stupid, or that it is yet another symptom of the decomposition, before our eyes, of the noble European project of integration and ever closer union.

In this sense, Tocqueville s intellectual heirs include the neo Marxist theorists of the Frankfurt School, as well as Hannah Arendt, all of whom feared above all the disintegration of reason in modern societies.

Between 1994 and 2002, the proportion of homes with improved sanitation services, defined as a lavatory bowl connected to a drainage system, a lavatory connected to a septic tank, or a flush toilet.

One body (Case 4, GOUSEINOV, Fikret (Gassan ogly)) was skeletonized, one body (Case 10, NAZIROV, Ilkhan (Sadoulla ogly)) was severely putrefied and the other eight bodies showed moderate to advanced putrefaction.

343. Asked whether women could obtain divorce, the representative replied that divorce procedures were different for marriages contracted under the Marriage Act, which had to be dissolved in the High Court of Zambia, and customary marriages, which could be dissolved in local courts.

Too much money, too little respect for the honor of wearing the team shirt the unraveling of Les Bleus has not been an event but a process, the chronicle of a disaster foretold, to quote Roselyne Bachelot, France s minister of health and sport.

These Sunni leaders live in abject fear of the geopolitical earthquake that any disintegration of political authority in Baghdad would bring, believing that all out civil war would invariably follow a war that would not respect international borders.

C. Concerns and recommendations While noting the concerns of the State party that identification of its population by ethnicity or religion may lead to national disunity, the Committee is concerned that the State party has submitted no precise figures on the ethnic composition of the population, and points out that such information is necessary to assess how the Convention is applied in practice.