For many, the political disarray has come as a symbol of the wider malaise afflicting India as it approaches its 50th anniversary of independence.

Had this acknowledgement been made, both a high birth-rate and environmental degradation would appear symptoms of a wider malaise.

It's part of a wider malaise with Human Revolution's main storyline that leaves it feeling oddly detached.

Bom Futuro's impasse is symptomatic of a wider malaise in this vast, mineral-rich nation.

Clegg No, sire, he's a symptom of a wider social malaise.

But some read the test item as the token of a wider malaise.

Could Serena Williams' outburst and leaky courts be symptomatic of a wider malaise in US society?

But the statistics speak of a wider malaise most evident when India's jongleurs venture out of the subcontinent.

The scandal of examiners is part of a wider malaise in which results count for everything, argues Allison Pearson.