Example sentences of "of state [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for example , these decades saw the development of new services associated with the emerging welfare state and the expansion of state pensions to cover almost the entire elderly population . |
| 2 | In view of that , did not the Secretary of State pause to conclude that whatever NATO may require , there is no requirement for the United Kingdom to have its own tactical air-to-surface missile ? |
| 3 | Section 13 gives the Secretary of State powers to issue two types of instruction : |
| 4 | The Local Government Act 1992 gave the Secretary of State powers to introduce Compulsory Competitive Tendering ( CCT ) for local government white collar services . |
| 5 | The crucial point here is that individual perceptions about benefits and the legitimacy of state actions to overcome economic crises were equally as important as the crises themselves . |
| 6 | Leys refers to them both , but only applies one to the Kenyan situation , that of the creation of state posts to absorb the unemployed surplus population formed by changing relations of production . |
| 7 | Ultimately it may well fall to the authorities of State B to enforce the judgment against Secundus and his assets . |
| 8 | While natural parents may be inadequate , even neglectful and cruel , this has to be balanced against the unsuitability of state agencies to fulfil the parental role , particularly in the long term . |
| 9 | Can we catch up , by a little clairvoyance , on the persistent tendency of state provision to come thirty years late ? |
| 10 | On Oct. 10 the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) claimed that the RAF had been deployed without prior consultation with state governments and that this constituted an infringement of the rights of state governments to administer law and order . |
| 11 | The President would " co-ordinate the activity of state bodies to ensure the defence of the country " , and would be Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces . |
| 12 | For example , supporting a sector of national industry may increase the costs of the goods or services provided to industry as a whole ; or the use of state enterprises to control inflation may increase the state 's fiscal problems because of the need for higher subsidies . |
| 13 | Moreover , the ability of state enterprises to maximize business objectives depends on the nature of the political pressures on them , and indeed , a greater ‘ business ’ rather than ‘ political ’ orientation ( Zif 1981 ) may flow from clear directives of the political authorities ; in other words the dominant political objective may be for the enterprise to behave in a ‘ commercial ’ manner , so that the maximization of business objectives may be a reflection of greater dependence on political authorities . |
| 14 | They abolished 50 existing laws and 36 agencies involved in regulating foreign trade , to ( i ) lift all quotas on imports and exports ; ( ii ) end trade controls except those protecting health care , urban planning , competition policy and environmental protection ; ( iii ) phase out regulation on domestic production and prices ; ( iv ) allow employers to negotiate wages at company level rather than with national unions ; ( v ) abolish regulations covering labour contracts and business hours ; ( vi ) prevent professional bodies fixing fees nationally ; and ( vii ) phase out the controls of State Boards to regulate production and sale of such key products as beef , wine , sugar , cotton and tobacco . |
| 15 | In systems integration , for example , Gartner Group rates Bull fourth in Europe and sixth in the world , which is a fact that continually gets lost amid all of Bull 's other bad news — and the French authorities seem to be oblivious to how badly the regular injections of state cash to prop Bull up play in the outside world , causing the company to be regarded as a corporate basket case that would no longer exist if it were subjected to the normal commercial disciplines faced by all its foreign competitors . |
| 16 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 17 | Young people So far as children and young people are concerned , it is well recognized in historical work on the nineteenth century that the growth of state intervention to control the employment of children , and to establish and expand compulsory education , had the effect of altering the balance of obligations between parents and children . |
| 18 | A second form of state intervention to promote rural industrialization is the use of direct subsidies to change manufacturers ' relative costs . |
| 19 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |
| 20 | The Conservatives turned to protection disguised as imperial preference in 1933 , and adopted a series of state measures to aid the reduction and consolidation of the declining heavy industries . |
| 21 | Since in these cases incorporation and public benefit were intimately linked it was also accepted that there should be a measure of state control to ensure that private interest was not allowed to predominate over the public good . |
| 22 | I shall outline these two interpretations of the law in the context of their formal justifications for the exercise of state power to enforce contracts before examining each one critically . |
| 23 | Amendment twenty gives the Secretary of State power to increase the number of police authority members above sixteen . |
| 24 | Section 23 gives the Secretary of State power to make regulations with respect to the |
| 25 | The need for some form of state regulation to mitigate the worst consequences of economic and social arrangements is accepted ; for example , income distribution policies aim to reduce poverty rather than to achieve equality . |