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• s  not restrained or controlled
  ungoverned rage
• s  lacking in discipline or control
  ungoverned youth

• Training can take place not only in the ungoverned tribal areas of Pakistan, but also in Bangladesh, which also faces a mounting challenge from Islamic extremism.
• Politics is still a new experienceparties became legal only since 1990, and whole swaths of the country exist in an ungoverned vacuum.
• In his own address a few weeks earlier, Obama dwelled on "impoverished, weak and ungoverned states.

• unbridled
• unchecked
• uncurbed
• undisciplined

News & Articles

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• AP review: Bite marks derided as unreliable when used as court evidence
  A small, mostly ungoverned group of dentists carry out bite mark analysis and their findings are often key evidence in prosecutions, even though there is no scientific proof that teeth can be matched definitively to a bite into human skin.
  June 16, 2013 - The Oregonian
• AP IMPACT: Bites derided as unreliable in court
  At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge's ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good. A small, mostly ungoverned group of dentists carry out bite mark analysis and their findings are often key evidence in ...
  June 16, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Ike Skelton in The Hill
  I fear that the situation on the ground in Somalia will be repeated in other failed states and in states with vast areas of ungoverned territory within their borders,Skelton said at the hearing.
• Robert Gates in Systems
  I think they're beginning to understand that the extremists in ungoverned spaces in their west have become an existential threat to Pakistan,Gates said, "And, I think that's one of the reasons the army is back in the fight, and one of the...
• John Kringen in Houston Chronicle
  Kringen said Wednesday in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee that al-Qaida seemed "to be fairly well settled into the safe haven in the ungoverned spaces of Pakistan," adding that "we see more training. We see more money, and...