Sentence examples for less capitalist from inspiring English sources

The combination of political dictatorship and a more or less capitalist economy looks attractive to foreign investors.

The ironic result, Mr. Rubenstein said, is this: "I've often thought that if Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon came back from the dead, they wouldn't recognize their respective capitals because one has become very capitalist and one is less capitalist".

After the early-80s wave of "hostile takeovers", managers lobbied successfully to strengthen regulatory bulwarks against open-market coups by competing managers.The upshot, according to Mr Roe, is that America "is less capitalist than it is 'managerialist.' Managers, not owners, get the final say in corporate decisions".

And despite the libertarian leanings of a lot of the Valley establishment, a big part of San Francisco is getting less capitalist in the name of being "progressive" every day.

Whatever lies Putin and Medvedev choose to circulate, the confrontation of August 2008 is not between a bellicose (let alone "Nazi") Georgia and its "fraternal" big neighbor; or between capitalist democracies and an autocratic Moscow-Beijing axis that is no less capitalist; or even between a European culture of freedom and another based on nationalist sovereignty.

No less a capitalist than the publisher George Weidenfeld put Hobsbawm to the task.

He was fêted by Africans because, unlike well-meaning aid agencies and foreign governments, Lonrho not only promised hotels, roads, ports and farms that would develop Africa, it actually built them.Two decades on, the reincarnated Lonrho goes about business in some of the same jovial ways but with a less spotty capitalist face.

Russians make even less charming capitalists than they did communists.

The pilots, already somewhat soured on their status as worker-owners, began to act a lot less like capitalists with equity to protect and a lot more like labor militants.

Once home to a system that seems to modern eyes as distant as communism, it is now a more-or-less normal capitalist country, troubled by the task of integrating the tenth of the population that consists of unhappy and often unseen immigrants.

Conflict between different interest groups is less likely in capitalist societies than in socialist ones, they argue.