Sentence examples for dirigisme from inspiring English sources

This is not the dirigisme of the new-town planner that confident soul who believes he knows where people will want to live and work, and how they will get from one to the other.

Greg Mulholland, a Liberal Democrat MP, suspects pubcos of "mis-selling" leases and says "a lot of lives have been ruined".The dirigisme contemplated by the government would hasten pub deaths, open the floodgates to foreign brewed beer and stifle consumer choice, the pubcos insist.

Too much of this could easily turn into old-fashioned dirigisme.

But such harangues only exemplify the instinctive dirigisme that is a big part of Russia's problem.

Rather than challenge dirigisme, the British and Americans are busy following it: Gordon Brown is ushering in new financial rules and higher taxes, and Barack Obama is suggesting that America could copy some things from France, to the consternation of his more conservative countrymen.

The other countries feared that French dirigisme might capture the bank in its formative years.

Everyone expected to see the party shift sharply to dirigisme, in accordance with Mr Séguin's own preoccupations.

In the past, France's dirigisme has served it well.

In short, Mr Lee seems to be sticking to Singapore's special blend of dirigisme and free markets.Such policies, of course, helped propel Singapore from third world to first in a generation.

Dashes of dirigisme and a colourful array of local hobby-horses distinguish them further.UKIP features a similar policy mess.

Many of those who arrive in Quebec move on to Toronto or Vancouver.Adapting to this demographic change will be made harder by the attachment of francophones to the things that delivered prosperity in the past but will hamper reform: dirigisme, co-operative savings institutions, powerful trade unions, subsidised electric power, generous public services and the high taxes to pay for them.