power vacuum

Critics from both left and right charge that libertarianism would create an unstable power vacuum and could not persist.

Renamo fighters were operating to a degree in a power vacuum.

In the power vacuum which followed the collapse of royal government in 1775, new instabilities and opportunities arose which galvanised these protagonists in different ways.

At this moment in time, there is a dangerous power vacuum.

There is a danger of creating a power vacuum in a strategically important part of the world.

Only gradually did we realise the power vacuum created by our flagrant neglect of the lesson of history.

The result has been to produce throughout the whole area uncertainty, disorder and disunion—in other words, a power vacuum.

He says we are creating a power vacuum.

The attempt to do so risks crisis and chaos and the creation of a power vacuum which is promptly filled by a dictatorship.

The appearance of a power vacuum in such a sensitive area is highly dangerous.

I personally think that the power vacuum has been filled with a vengeance.

At the same time we appreciate that it is impossible to contemplate leaving a power vacuum.

I do not believe that we should be forgiven if we abandoned the area to terror and chaos by irresponsibly creating a power vacuum.

I hope that this is a power vacuum which will not arise in our lifetime, although it might.

I fear that there is a dangerous power vacuum in that area.