Sentence examples for meddling state from inspiring English sources

The meddling state lets multinationals in, only to squeeze them dry of their valuable technologies and then push them out.Much of this criticism is right.

AXA, once a small provincial French company, is now Europe's biggest insurer by total assets.The chief reason that firms like these have prospered under a meddling state is enforced inventiveness.

But many of the reasons for it, such as polarised politics and meddling with state institutions, look unlikely to improve under his rule.

The opposition accuses him of meddling in state affairs and trying to undermine reform efforts by his successor, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

But in either case, by meddling in state and local politics, he risks fueling the same indignation that Roosevelt did in 1938.

Partly because the Siemens-led alternative was on the table, GE had to make concessions, and ended up in a complex set of joint ventures, in some cases with the meddling French state as a partner.

He accused the court of meddling in state affairs, and had Mr. Chaudhry escorted out of his office and the leaders of the lawyers movement rounded up on orders of preventive detention.

South Korea's president has named a new prime minister and finance minister, the highest-level shake-up yet since President Park Geun-hye's administration was rocked by a scandal involving a friend accused of meddling in state affairs.

Its decisions have been vigorously criticized, on the one hand, for unduly meddling with state judicial administration and, on the other hand, for not treating all of the specific procedural guarantees of the first 10 amendments as equally applicable to state and to federal proceedings.

In response to alarm about a federal agency meddling in state business, Johnson clarifies that the change "does not mean a federal takeover… [it] does nothing to change the role state and local governments have in administering and running elections".

He was widely distrusted by politicians, who saw him as meddling in state business and seeking to expand the power of the monarchy.