Example sentences of "state [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Governor he had encountered the opposition of the Democrat majority in the state legislature over tax and budgetary reforms and over his decision to veto a state abortion law in 1990 .
2 Early state intervention over factory hours , therefore , can be seen as public control necessitated by the blind self-destructiveness of capital itself .
3 The highly cautious approach to purity demands undercuts any simple notion of more active state intervention over sexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century .
4 This required two steps : the reimposition of state control over insurrectionist authorities such as the Committees of Public Safety ; and the restoration of a clear distinction between military and civilian spheres .
5 The colonial state was a peculiar extension of the metropolitan capitalist state , in that it established political authority relations at the point of production and expanded state control over marketing .
6 In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions .
7 There is , in fact , a tension between legal concepts designed to facilitate state control over family life , and those designed to protect the family from undue state intervention and to boost family autonomy .
8 The flag of Texas symbolized the reassertion of state authority over Koresh 's kingdom .
9 The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up .
10 Under certain conditions the balance of class forces , plus the conflicts within and between different elites in the state system over state power might result in opportunities for interests opposed to monopoly capital to seize the state and pursue policies antithetical to its interest .
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