Example sentences of "[noun] of the state to the " in BNC.

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1 The Commission also considered the obligations of the state to the citizen , a subject which as we have seen advocates of active citizenship have tended to neglect .
2 As the title implies , she related theoretical debates about the nature of the state to the institutions of local government .
3 And there was a new outpouring of rumours about Hitler 's health : that he was ill , mad , blind , had suffered a nervous breakdown , or that as a result of mental illness he had been forced to hand over the leadership of the State to the military , and had been shot .
4 Over fifty years ago Dorothy George contested the views of writers like the Webbs and the Hammonds that 1799 and 1800 amounted to " the most unqualified surrender of the State to the discretion of a class in the History of England " .
5 It is therefore wrong , Poulantzas argues , to reduce the role of the state to the conduct and motivations of its personnel .
6 Set against this rather simplistic view of the neutrality and responsiveness of the state to the wishes of electors are pluralist writers who argue that there is certainly a necked for greater preparedness. hut that the military and the giant corporations in America have far more influence on the political system than they should and that they are a threat to liberal democracy .
7 Evidence for the theory is found in the direct and overlapping networks which tie the personnel who command the heights of the state to the personnel who command the heights of monopoly capital .
8 The fragmentation of the state , and the relative autonomy of its constituent agencies , also depends on the degree of permeability of the state to the interests of civil society .
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