Example sentences of "state [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people should be encouraged to make provision for themselves and their families , and state support should provide a safety net for the very poor , without stifling private initiative and self-help . |
| 2 | His international reputation would do credit to Soviet music ; state support would enable him to compose without having to earn his living on the concert platform . |
| 3 | There was in Britain no organised social and state support for science . |
| 4 | However , state support varies in a complex way according to the age of the elderly person , the extent of his or her-disability , the type of household lived in , and the informal support available . |
| 5 | But just as the state appears unwilling to allow the market a totally free reign over the prospects of large companies , state support for small firms seems to recognize their value . |
| 6 | Public service broadcasting objectives were intertwined with two other issues : the state as arbiter between different interests ( programme companies , the cinema industry , etc. ( and state support for ‘ worthy ’ or ‘ noble causes ’ — the defence of the French language , of French film production , of programmes for children . |
| 7 | Aggressive tactics by management and state support are not the only explanation for the employers ' victory . |
| 8 | Using national and state curriculum guidelines as a basis parallel texts are devised in both English and Yoruba , children in Yoruba medium streams being taught English as a subject from Class I — in the experimental school by specialist teachers , in the expansion classes by the regular class teacher . |
| 9 | It contributes nearly 7 per cent of all state taxes in the form of VAT and excise duty . |
| 10 | Military forces , usually state militia , were frequently called upon during that period to preserve law and order in violent strike situations . |
| 11 | Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) . |
| 12 | Public opinion has shifted to the right over the past decade on one component of collectivism — nationalization — and in a more liberal direction on another , state provision of welfare and social policies ( for similar trends elsewhere , see below ) . |
| 13 | On the Atlantic coast , state provision of education was limited , with teaching exclusively in Spanish ( see page 120 ) . |
| 14 | The Smith-Thomson critique offers no causal explanation of precisely why shifts have occurred in the balance of community and state provision . |
| 15 | State provision is important for many elderly people , not only because they have to rely on a retirement or supplementary pension in the absence of income from employment or from an occupational pension , but also because they need the health and social services provided by the welfare state . |
| 16 | All parenting is shared between the family and the wider kinship and friendship network , and between this system and state provision . |
| 17 | The socialist sisters Margaret and Rachel Macmillan were especially active , first in Bradford , then in London , in pressing through the school boards and municipal councils for more municipal and state provision for the health of infants . |
| 18 | partial dismantling of state ownership of major industries and state provision of services |
| 19 | At a wider level , in relation to society as a whole , it might equally be questioned how dominant collectivism and state provision have ever been in the US . |
| 20 | State provision of toll goods is justified on efficiency grounds if exclusion is relatively costly to enforce or too little of the good is consumed because people are excluded from using a good which is non-rivalrous in consumption . |
| 21 | Social history and , in particular , state provision of welfare , is a relatively neglected area in the historiography of the Weimar Republic . |
| 22 | In terms of educational provision and state policies , the case-study countries represent a wide spectrum , from variably successful attempts to universalize basic education ( Zimbabwe , Mozambique , Zambia , Nicaragua , Costa Rica ) ; to widespread neglect of large sections of the population ( El Salvador , Honduras , Sudan ) ; to a history of active discrimination against particular sections of it ( Guatemala , South Africa , Namibia ) . |
| 23 | State policies were seen as merely modifying the particular application of the law . |
| 24 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 25 | Technocrats are ‘ statists ’ who consider that state policies are available to manage all social problems , although in selecting solutions they may lean to the right ( favouring market management and abhorring the inefficiencies of state socialism ) or to the left ( deploring the waste of social resources under capitalism ) . |
| 26 | For decentralization to work , state policies should reflect the desires of outside interest groups at the sub authority level . |
| 27 | In the UK , as compared with the state planning and support of enterprises carried out in , say , Japan and France , these state policies were half-hearted and failed to generate high rates of industrial growth by international standards . |
| 28 | The state is viewed as an instrument of capital and state policies such as immigration and race relations legislation are seen as the outcome of deliberate , thus ‘ rational ’ , manipulation by agents of capital and the capitalist state . |
| 29 | But this also held the depressing implication that nothing much had changed since 1981 , and that the antiracist movement had largely failed to shift either popular attitudes or state policies . |
| 30 | Rather the expansion of the social services is the result of two major factors : ‘ ( i ) the requirement of the capitalist economy as mediated by the state structure and state policies ; ( ii ) the class balance of forces within capitalist society ’ . |