Example sentences of "state as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is odd to speak of the creation of a state as the ‘ pretext ’ for anything : the translator may possibly be responsible for the oddity here , as for the orotundity that precedes it . |
| 2 | Calvin viewed his interpretation of the function of the state as the only Christian one . |
| 3 | The individual communities consider the State as the true owner of the land they cultivate in common . |
| 4 | Almost one-third of the original 4m-acre expanse was left in a natural state as the Everglades National Park . |
| 5 | The crucial market for a state was its internal market for he saw free trade within a state as the way to combine the state into one productive role . |
| 6 | The schedule , by asking for the residence to have ‘ the requirements of a Nobleman 's Town House ’ with twelve to fourteen bedrooms , a dining room to seat fifty , and a reception suite to accommodate 1,500 guests , was not only ensuring accommodation for official functions , but also attempting to perpetuate the traditional view of the Secretary of State as the embodiment of the Foreign Office ; a view which Hammond was systematically demolishing . |
| 7 | While the key features of each — the limited liability company , the use of collective bargaining and the state provision of welfare — all have something of a Christian basis in terms of providing outlets for savings , strengthening the family , and correcting injustice and providing for those in need , nevertheless it is easy to see how they can become taken over by humanistic philosophy — so that they become unlimited freedom to create wealth , the use of collective power and the denial of individual merit and the state as the alternative for the family and private charity . |
| 8 | Like Hyndman , and the Webbs , Blatchford had always looked to the state as the main agency of social change . |
| 9 | Traditionally pacifists had looked to the evolution of a transnational civil society and the gradual withering away of the nation state as the key to human progress — a view elaborated most influentially by Richard Cobden . |
| 10 | In 1896 Theodore Herzl 's Der Judenstaat proposed the re-establishment of the Jewish people in a national , territorial state as the only workable solution to the Jewish problem . |
| 11 | As evidence of the difficulty of eschewing individualism he criticises a number of attempts to elaborate a conception of the state as the tool of the ruling class which are individualist . |
| 12 | Still more important , one would then need an account of the state as the sort of thing over which capital could exercise power — a set of institutions with no autonomy of their own . |
| 13 | Nordlinger defines the state as the resource-weighted parallelogram of state officials , and society as the resource-weighted parallelogram of forces operating in society . |
| 14 | Hegel also saw the state as the sphere of reason , a complex differentiated unity which can dialectically overcome contradictions and conflicts in society . |
| 15 | Lenin characterized the liberal democratic state as the best possible shell for capitalism , where state officials are tied by ‘ a thousand threads ’ to the capitalist class ( Lenin , 1977 , p. 108 ) . |
| 16 | Instrumentalists also claim that poulantzas ' conception of the state as the factor of cohesion in the social formation is equally unhelpful . |
| 17 | In a similar fashion to the narrow interpretation of Weber on state coercion , most responses to Marxist work focus on the state as the agent of monopoly capitalism . |
| 18 | It became known as ‘ the power-politics model ’ , because of its stress on the power-political situation of a state as the central determinant of its interests . |
| 19 | The challenge of the 1970s , then , had its precedents ; and it too failed to prove the necessary demise of the state as the dominant actor , at any rate in the immediate future . |
| 20 | The agenda might be termed ‘ classical ’ in the sense that it addresses problems raised by Idealism , Realism , and other approaches whose focus is on the state as the crucial unit in the international system . |
| 21 | Generally the existing situation is seen as a problem and the future state as the solution to that problem . |
| 22 | By notice of appeal dated 15 February 1991 Mr. Smart appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in holding that the principles of natural justice did not endow a prisoner serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the right to know the factors ( including the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice ) which the Secretary of State took into account when fixing the tariff , the right to make informed representations to the Secretary of State about the length of the tariff to be applied and the right to be provided with the reasons for the period chosen by the Secretary of State as the tariff period ; and ( 2 ) in holding that the practice of the Secretary of State in murder cases of fixing a tariff in excess of that recommended by the trial judge and/or the Lord Chief Justice was lawful . |
| 23 | ‘ On sentencing any person convicted of murder to imprisonment for life the court may at the same time declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence under section 27 of the Prison Act 1952 … |
| 24 | ‘ declare the period which it recommends to the Secretary of State as the minimum period which in its view should elapse before the Secretary of State orders the release of that person on licence … |
| 25 | Purity feminists viewed the state as the tool to circumscribe male power in the moral as well as in the political sphere . |
| 26 | He is depicted seated in State as the High Priest ( Pontifex Maximus ) . |
| 27 | It is an entirely different question whether the Marxist concept of the state as the necessary product of the division of society into classes ( which is also sufficient to produce it ) is itself adequate , irrespective of whether or not it is incorporated into an evolutionist scheme . |
| 28 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 29 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |
| 30 | Yet there can be little doubt that this demand for equality , even though not apparent in the Neolithic case , but so insistent and widespread in all modern societies , is a direct consequence of seeing the state as the milch-mother . |