Sentence examples for essence of state from inspiring English sources

This is the essence of state secrets.

Questioning Paul Clement, the lawyer defending DOMA, Kennedy spoke of "a real risk" of running into "conflict with what has always been the essence of state police power, which is to regulate marriage, divorce, custody".

If the 1996 law stands, Justice Kennedy said, "you are at real risk with running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence" of state power, which he said was to regulate marriage, divorce and custody.

Many ordinary people accepted the essence of state propaganda, which concentrated, when the topic of victims was raised at all, on Serb victims in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, and on Western hypocrisy for ignoring the crimes of others, like Russians in Chechnya.

8. (S//NF) Grinda said what he has read from 10-12 years' worth of investigations on OC has led him to believe that whereas terrorists aim to substitute the essence of the state itself, OC seeks to be a complement to state structures.

Hegel and in which he advanced the idea that the essence of a state is a national spirit.

In these years (1807 12) when he had the Emperor's confidence, Speransky was responsible for a number of financial and administrative reforms designed not to change the essence of the state structure but to improve its functioning.

The Netanyahu government's refusal to come to terms with the Palestinians, and its insistence on settlement building, have steadily undermined both the security and the essence of the state, which was founded as a refuge from dispossession.

Doma, said Kennedy, puts Washington "at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the state police power, which is to regulate marriage, divorce, custody".

"Bill" began: In time, Mr. Budbill assumed the stature of a local oracle, a beloved voice of the Vermont mountains with a rough-hewed personality and a gift for expressing the essence of the state and its people in burnished monosyllables.

In The Evangelical State Church of Prussia and Science, Bauer described the essence of the state as free development.