Sentence examples for sensible state from inspiring English sources

"This is not the nanny state - it's the sensible state.

Favouring a sensible state interventionist approach, he urged openness and steered a middle ground between neo-liberal dogma and autarchic inefficiencies.

Not only does it comply with the catechism of the "Washington Consensus"—free enterprise, free trade, sensible state finances and so on but it also ticks all the boxes for the Millennium Development Goals, the UN's anti-poverty blueprint.

(He also suggested that an individual in England was worth £90, and in Ireland £70).In a lecture on anatomy in 1676 Petty argued that the state should intervene to assure better medicine, which could save 200,000 subjects a year and thus represented a sensible state expenditure.

Since suffering that big shock in the 1980s, it has become a well-diversified, fiscally sensible state; one where the great racial realignment that will affect all of America is already far advanced; and one whose politics is gradually finding the centre.

Ageing ravers will be out in force as one of the biggest stars of the 90s returns to the stage for a pre-Christmas arena show, although Es are likely to be less prevalent than 20 years ago, given the need to be in a sensible state to return to the babysitter.

In fact, the efficacy of new disease-modifying OA drugs that promote chondrogenic differentiation in animal models indicates that this may be a drug-sensible state.

A generation ago, most high school students in my Midwestern town approached college like this: first came prom, then graduation, and then enrollment at a sensible, affordable state school.

Rob Portman: sensible, swing-state, pucka GOP credentials.

Hill has maintained a sensible distance, stating that she has "so many other fish to fry I'm buying another chip shop".

Then came the state: sensible suits in herringbone tweed, cut with the Dolce & Gabbana precision, the skirts falling chastely to just over the knee.