Sentence examples for bred dependency from inspiring English sources

Senior Tories objected to the ballooning size and scope of the welfare state under the last Labour government not just because it was expensive, but because it bred dependency.

She believes that direct foreign aid to African countries has bred dependency and corruption and trapped nations in poverty.

Government cash may also breed dependency.

The volume is insufficient, they say, just enough to breed dependency.

It marked Bill Clinton's first attempt to "end welfare as we know it"—to change a system that seemed to breed dependency for poor parents and their children.

Abizaid said substantially increasing U.S. ground forces could breed dependency in Iraqi troops while complicating the already demanding rotations of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for other contingencies.

By contrast, Japan, which imposes relatively low taxes on older workers' earnings, has one of the world's highest employment rates among the over-60s.Protection can also breed dependency.

She worries that handouts breed dependency (and in any case, United Nations agencies can't safely reach her now to distribute food), so she is training formerly nomadic herding families to farm and even to fish in the sea.

Less than a decade ago, the priority of policymakers was to get more aid for Africa; now they promote investing in African businesses, pointing out that the continent now boasts some of the world's fastest-growing economies.In this new world aid and charity are criticised for seeing the poor as victims in need of handouts, which help breed dependency.

The former might lead to results, but will not be sustainable since it breeds dependency.

They obviously breed dependency on government, crime, and a whole bunch of other social ills that a good 21st century city can't have.