Sentence examples for blanket of state from inspiring English sources

But the academic left needs the comfort blanket of state finance for a reason.

A lower court ruled that blanket urinalysis of state workers, meanwhile, violated their constitutional right to privacy.

"If people needed roads and there wasn't this comfort blanket of the state providing everything, they'd be built".

"From the balmy end of July to the frosts of mid-September, wild blueberries blanket the state of Maine," she wrote in a 1986 article.

A judge in California recently rejected the Justice Department's claims of blanket state secrecy in a case brought by five rendition victims against Jeppesen Dataplan, a subsidiary of Boeing, which provided the flight plans for the C.I.A.'s renditions.

In a press conference in April, Obama indicated that he had had second thoughts about the Justice Department's assertion of blanket state secrecy in the case, but on June 12th the Administration reasserted its original claim.

The European Trade Union Confederation said that 40 unions in 23 countries had joined the "day of action and solidarity" against the blanket of austerity imposed on state spending in the past four years.

"It's not that there's one issue of suppression," he said, "but there are all these little things that add up to basically a culture and a blanket of suppression across the state that makes it difficult for people to go vote". .

Brown haze blanketed much of the state of New South Wales on the fifth day since the first wildfires broke out.

China countered it with the kind of smothering security blanket that in many countries is reserved for visits by heads of state.

"We've had a big comfort blanket called state funding, and now we're being thrown out of the nest".