Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that the state is " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 2 | Such laws are partly paternalistic , based on the argument that the State is in a better position to assess the risks of injury , and partly economic , in the sense that conformity with the law would save millions of pounds in medical expenses ( as well as much grief for citizens ) . |
| 3 | By making this distinction , Miliband sought to account for the fact that the state is not always an instrument of the ruling class , even though , in terms of ownership and control of the economy , a ruling class clearly existed . |
| 4 | The fact that the state is the guarantor of these undertakings puts them in a totally different trading position from that of their genuinely independent British counterparts . |
| 5 | Only in one respect is a consideration of their characteristics illuminating , in emphasizing the fact that the state is not the only means by which the cohesion of a society is assured , and so giving some support to those liberal pluralist theories which treat the state as one association among others , and not always the most important . |