Example sentences of "that the state " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people . |
| 2 | Grounds for the bishops ' opposition were that only parents and not the state should have the right to provide for the health of their children , that the state had no role to play in the physical education of children and mothers , and that individual privacy would be threatened by public use of their private health records ( Whyte 1980 : 213–14 ) . |
| 3 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 4 | That the state would certainly not allow . |
| 5 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 6 | Conservatism has a dogma that the State should not intervene . |
| 7 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 8 | Without plunging into the moral and intellectual ‘ deep end ’ of the arguments about retribution , I suspect there is a relationship of cause and effect between the state of opinion and the incidence of crime , and further , that the state of opinion and the penalties of the law are interrelated — at least to this extent , that , other things being the same , milder penalties generally imply less reprobation . |
| 9 | In the same speech she said that she wanted her government to be remembered as one ‘ which decisively broke with a debilitating consensus of a paternalistic Government and a dependent people ; which rejected the notion that the State is all powerful and the citizen is merely its beneficiary ; which shattered the illusion that Government could somehow substitute for individual performance ’ . |
| 10 | They are , however , quite clear that the State and the apparatus of the State , especially law , are some of the tools of the dominant class , and are therefore primes examples of false consciousness . |
| 11 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the State is actually worshipped either in the person of a ruler or in a god which it incarnates . |
| 12 | This means that the State helps the community in resisting the amassing of wealth in the hands of a few members , because of the disruptive implication of such a process . |
| 13 | It is by means of this idea that the State is linked with the earlier part of the origin of kinship and marriage . |
| 14 | This possibility ran counter to much nineteenth-century political theory , which stressed that the State was the only guarantor of personal safety . |
| 15 | For a long time the dominant view in anthropology was that the State was a beneficial institution . |
| 16 | What anthropologists stressed was that the State brought safety for the individual , peace , and the rule of law . |
| 17 | Peter McIntosh , the co-author of this report and a pioneer in the historical study of sport in modern Britain , concludes that the state via the Sports Council should ‘ base both research and promotion on enjoyment rather than social function ’ . |
| 18 | Official doctrine , first proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong 40 years ago , insists that the state is entitled to use all the dictatorial weapons at its disposal to suppress its enemies . |
| 19 | The poll is not analysed , but it is striking that countries where pollution from cars has become a major problem have the highest percentages of people who believe that the state of the environment requires urgent action : 85 per cent in Italy ( at the top of the list ) , where Milan , one of the world 's smoggiest cities , now has car-free days and the capital Rome also suffers severely from vehicle congestion and pollution ; 84 per cent in Greece , where restrictions on cars in Athens are imposed to save the citizens ' lungs and their ancient monuments ; 80 per cent in the most vehicle emission-conscious country in Europe , West Germany , whose dead trees have become the symbol of pollution . |
| 20 | In our defence we would say that the state 's water supplies are still only around half of what is normal at this time of year , and that many Californians , currently refilling their swimming pools and reflooding their orange groves , may live to regret it . |
| 21 | They complain that the state 's domination of the economy has been suffocating : public investment has risen to 8.5% of GDP compared with private investment of 6.5% . |
| 22 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 23 | So Mr Li made it clear that the state will go on bailing out the inefficient state-owned juggernauts , as well as subsidising a range of things from rice to city rents . |
| 24 | No sensible review of social security could avoid the fact that the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( known by its unlovely acronym , SERPS ) was stacking up an enormous future bill for the public . |
| 25 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 26 | But it also noted that population would continue to rise over the next thirty years and presented the view that the state should plan future population growth by offering family allowances and income tax relief to those contemplating families along with the development of special services for the benefit of children and mothers . |
| 27 | It was financed by Lloyd George , without reference to Asquith , and argued that the state should gradually take over the land through committees whose purpose was to ensure that reforms were made to revive the economy of the countryside . |
| 28 | Such laws are partly paternalistic , based on the argument that the State is in a better position to assess the risks of injury , and partly economic , in the sense that conformity with the law would save millions of pounds in medical expenses ( as well as much grief for citizens ) . |
| 29 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 30 | That elusive and incomplete report tantalizes in its suggestion that the conflict between two sets of ideas and institutions of government had crystallized , had produced a confrontation of philosophies symbolized with quite adequate drama in the request that the state should compensate the tribe for its fallen conscripts . |