Sentence examples for programme of state from inspiring English sources

This point was there in Nick Clegg's description on the Today programme of state dependency in the north-east as not only unaffordable but unhealthy.

Mr Cameron says that he has no intention of dropping the government's ambitious goal to halve child poverty by 2010 an archetypally state-driven target if ever there was one.The Policy Exchange pair seem to think that compassionate conservatism would result in a "large-scale programme of state decentralisation".

Millions died in the Great Leap Forward - a programme of state control over agriculture and rapid industrialisation - and the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic attempt to root out elements seen as hostile to Communist rule.

The bulk of Brazilian infrastructure, the main roads and ports, as well as the telecommunications network, was built in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the military government embarked on a major programme of state investment.

We show how a newly legitimized programme of state funding for electrical research both during and after the war led to academic physics and electrical engineering dropping their reliance on patenting by the 1920s, and in the process becoming autonomous sciences each erasing stories of their former collaboration from disciplinary memories.

A programme of state terrorism ran from 1976 to 1983 aimed to eliminate political dissidents, where the military utilized kidnappings, torture, killings, targeted assassinations and disappearances to impose a reign of terror and a culture of fear; it is estimated that up to 30 000 persons from that era remain 'disappeared' (Kaiser 2002).

What is required, as professor of development studies Gilbert Achcar argues in his recent book The People Want, is a long-term programme of state-led investment to develop the economy on a truly productive basis, and meet the challenge of providing good jobs for young Egyptians on a sustained basis into the future.

These children are also included into the programmes of state services for adolescents in order to provide them with financial and moral support.

The anniversary of the programme was also the occasion of further criticism of the 750 quota, with some commentators arguing that this is mean-spirited and continues to compare unfavourably with the refugee resettlement programmes of states including the United States, Canada and Australia.

In the 1930s and 1950s however massive programmes of state-sponsored house building saw thousands of new homes built in Coatbridge and some of the worst examples of slum housing were cleared away.

Today Vinamilk is a flagship for the government's huge programme of "equitising" state firms, and most of its shares are privately held.