Sentence examples for runaway state from inspiring English sources

"Every day that passes, Hugh Carey grows taller," says Richard Ravitch, New York's current lieutenant governor (by emergency appointment), who has been battling another runaway state budget mess.

"This week our nation remains in a runaway state of absurdity and shows no sign of slowing down," announces Winyu in one recent episode.

Many have ties to the Manhattan Institute, an incubator of the brand of urban conservatism — heavy on criticism of public employee unions and runaway state budgets — to which Mr. Christie is the country's most visible Republican heir.

But it still suggests that under certain atmospheric conditions a stable Earth could switch to a runaway greenhouse state.

Nor does Greece have a runaway welfare state, as conservatives like to claim; social expenditure as a percentage of G.D.P., the standard measure of the size of the welfare state, is substantially lower in Greece than in, say, Sweden or Germany, countries that have so far weathered the European crisis pretty well.

Rising welfare rolls may have been a big political problem, but a runaway welfare state more broadly just wasn't an issue — hey, these days right-wingers complaining about a nation of takers tend to use the low-dependency 70s as a baseline.

Blaming big tech companies for enabling our runaway surveillance state is like blaming Toyota or Ford for drunk drivers.

No matter which way the Supreme Court rules in Missouri v. McNeely, it will do little to rein in this runaway police state of ours.

Just a week earlier, Paul Krugman took on the myth of lazy Greeks and a runaway welfare state in Greece and pointed out that the euro itself and woefully inadequate European institutions are at the heart of this crisis.

You can practically feel a shiver run up your spine, but you have to acknowledge the cold logic of the calculation: Epstein would do better, and make better music, playing bass with the Heartbreakers than cranking out "Runaway" at state fairs.

This implies that tides, which depend strongly on eccentricity, play a minor role in the length of the runaway greenhouse state.