Example sentences of "of the state [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are satisfied that the report is an accurate snapshot of the state of human rights in Malawi today . |
| 2 | In fact , Marxism has been more concerned to establish the role of the state under different conditions , than to disaggregate the state apparatus and provide a detailed analysis of one or other of its institutions , such as the bureaucracy . |
| 3 | Cawson himself acknowledges the significance of this in his discussion of ‘ microcorporatism ’ , that is the detailed bargaining of the state with individual enterprises over investment and other matters , sometimes with the involvement of trade unions ( see Cawson ( 1986 , pp. 118–21 ) where he focuses particularly on the experiences of the GLC and the Greater London Enterprise Board ) . |
| 4 | Of the various attempts that have been made to apply Althusser 's principles , by far the most wholehearted and discerning is the work of Nicos Poulantzas , who offered both an account of the state in capitalist societies and an analysis of what he saw as one of its exceptional forms fascism . |
| 5 | This account contends that the structure of power and the role of the state in capitalist societies will be crucially conditioned by the political forms which exist . |
| 6 | Jessop has argued , we think correctly , that this view is invalid because it ignores the central truth of the state in capitalist societies ; namely , that it is a field of political struggle . |
| 7 | Much of the debate surrounding the role of the state in financial markets has centred on power of the central monetary authorities over Commercial Banks who frequently overcommit themselves when financing the growth of investment . |
| 8 | Liberal corporatist accounts explain the growth of the state in liberal democracies by reference to the historical and culturally distinctive features of certain Western European countries which resulted in conditions conductive to corporatism . |
| 9 | Neither the historical marginality nor internal colonialism arguments fully explain the action of the state in depressed areas ; the fragmented nature of the responses of capital in such areas does not encourage holistic explanations . |
| 10 | The military consists of the armed forces ( land , sea and air ) whose primary function is to defend the state against external enemies or to enforce the will of the state against other states . |