Sentence examples for pillar of state from inspiring English sources

Yet if Mr. Putin and Mr. Medvedev are to invoke the lessons of the past in dealing with Russia's alcohol epidemic, they need to look more broadly at the dubious historical role of alcohol as a pillar of state finance.

The Supreme Court on Friday warned the government against firing assertive judges, with Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry calling such a step "high treason," that "would be tantamount to the toppling of an important pillar of state and subverting the Constitution".

Cautioning that French banks remain perilously vulnerable to foreign takeover, Laurent Fabius, the finance minister, said that "this type of financial pillar of state and semistate entities is the way forward".

Anti-Americanism is not only the reason for war and the main pillar of state power, but also an ideology that Russia is trying to export to Europe, as it once exported communism.Anti-Westernism has been dressed not in communist clothes, but in imperial and even clerical ones (see article).

She received good reviews for her history "Jameson's Raid" in 1960 and then achieved widespread success with the biography "Victoria R. I". in 1964; a two-volume life of the Duke of Wellington, "The Years of the Sword," in 1969; and "Pillar of State" in 1972.

Profits from the sale of vodka accounted for 23% of government revenues in Soviet days and once again could be a pillar of state finance.

"It takes the focus away from the serious challenges faced by the nation and could result in unnecessary tension among the various pillars of state, and possibly destabilize the country," said Reza Bokhari, the spokesman.

Golkar is sceptical of analysing the Experts Assembly through a simple divide between "hardliners" and "moderates", preferring to distinguish groups based around the "three pillars" of state bureaucracy, the clerical establishment in Qom and the military-security apparatus.

Mr. Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League party hit back at the court, describing the order as "seemingly motivated by personal vendettas," and hinted at the possibility of a looming clash with the military, warning that the order could "result in unnecessary tension among the various pillars of state and possibly destabilize the country".

While many people still pay lip service to the importance of the state, and the armed forces as a pillar of the state, what is happening on the ground is an insistence on achieving the goals of the revolution.

That legitimacy, along with the republican pillar of the state, has evaporated.