Sentence examples for dreaded state from inspiring English sources
"Another dreaded State Banquet I'm afraid," the Diary Secretary informed him.
CAIRO — The files have started flowing out of Egypt's dreaded state security headquarters, part of the post-uprising rush to excavate some of the state's darkest corners.
Despite having had no trouble from the Syrian military or the dreaded state security services, he thought the war needed to end.
When Islamists are acquitted by the courts, most of them are transferred almost immediately to the headquarters of the dreaded State Security Investigation, or S.S.I., an arm of the Interior Ministry, and they are kept there for anything from a week to a month.
This may represent some real value, potentially saving you multiple trips to the dreaded state Department of Motor Vehicles.
Streamlining, downsizing, outsourcing, rationalising – these have come to be seen as the only answers to that dreaded thing, state bureaucracy.
Here New Zealand offers a reassuring lesson: in the three years after the banning of physical punishment, the government found that the dreaded "unnecessary state intervention" in private homes did not happen.
Indeed you only have to look at our proposed trade deal with Ethiopia, or our recent deal with Colombia, to see that the UK government is more than happy to sign up to bilaterals that do just as much damage as TTIP – and include dreaded investor state dispute mechanisms that allow corporations to take governments to court.
It's difficult to know where to begin with this, with its casting of social services as the Waffen SS of the dreaded nanny state, its nod to piss-poor local schools of the all-shall-have-prizes mentality, and its bold accusation that society isn't treating all of us in the same way it treats Will Smith.
Then, of course, there is the crisis besetting Westminster, the seemingly inevitable change of government at the next election, and the dread state of the public finances.
To the British it suggests a dreaded super-state.
