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

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1 What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question .
2 The policy has been the cornerstone of China 's efforts to revive state industry over the past five years .
3 Nevertheless , he continued to prevaricate even as the Dec. 20 deadline for registering as a candidate for the New Hampshire contest approached , while indicating that he might yet join the contest for his party 's presidential nomination if he could satisfactorily resolve the current impasse between himself and the state legislature over the budget .
4 At Present it appears that advocates of big spending programmes , expanding the public sector , inflation-risking policies , and increasing state control over the economy are in a minority .
5 He argued in his essay On Liberty that State schools , with a State control over the curriculum , would be simply a means of producing a docile and bien pensant population , moulded in accordance with the wishes of the government of the day .
6 Over the next few years , the coalition government worked on the framing of a federal law that laid the foundations of a much larger system of higher education — and opened the door to far more state control over the universities .
7 At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy .
8 The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) .
9 Most countries exert some degree of State control over the content and form of advertising .
10 In 1892 the exhibition of painting by Edvard Munch created a scandal after which state control over the Salon was reinforced .
11 Rejecting the simultaneous freeing of prices for most goods and services ( the so-called " Polish variant " ) , Ryzhkov announced " a stage-by-stage introduction of market methods of price formation combined with state control over the level and movement of prices " .
12 It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) .
13 Parliament ordered an immediate investigation into sales of state property over the previous two years , after hearing reports from the state procurator and the chairman of the Byelarus State Security Committee ( KGB ) , Eduard Shirkovsky , on organized crime , corruption and theft .
14 The bourgeoisie was evidently not a ruling class in the sense in which the old-style landowner was , whose position gave him , de jure or de facto , the effective state power over the inhabitants of his territory .
15 All may have been quiet on the 808 State front over the last year but , far from resting on their laurels , the techno titans have been locked in the studio , ripping it up on the mixing desk .
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