Example sentences of "rolling back the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the Conservative talk of ‘ rolling back the state ’ there has been a remarkable centralization of decision-making since 1979 . |
| 2 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 3 | Bernard Unti , vice president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society , is pessimistic about the chances of rolling back the patent decision , but believes some progress has been made . |
| 4 | It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s . |
| 5 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 6 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |
| 7 | What is remarkable is that this heavily interventionist stance was developed by a government committed ‘ to rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ and to the values of consumerism — ‘ parents know best ’ . |
| 8 | Public-sector spending and employment were themselves heavily and deliberately constrained by the Conservative policy of ‘ rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ , which to many trade-unionists was part of the same process as de-industrialization . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher also pointed to the contrast between her domestic achievements in rolling back the frontiers of the state and the prospect that if the Delors of this world have their way , power over the economy would be re-centralized in Brussels . |
| 10 | Rolling back the pay-off via decision 2a , the EV following the initial development project is £42k . |
| 11 | Rolling back the pay-off via decision 2a , the EV following the initial development project is £42k . |
| 12 | He paced in and out of Gabriel 's view , rolling back the sleeve of his dust-grimy shirt and baring his hairy left arm . |
| 13 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 14 | These general arguments for " rolling back the state " underpin a more specific critique of the state 's role in welfare which revolves around two themes : economic efficiency and moral values . |
| 15 | But for a radical government committed to " rolling back the state " these changes , though controversial , were not large . |
| 16 | While it talks about rolling back the state , it has overseen a major increase in central government and police power . |