Sentence examples for smash the state from inspiring English sources

No ifs or buts: last week's mean-spirited heartless roller-coaster Budget was designed to smash the state and make the poor poorer.

Graeber sees "authoritarian socialists" not as distant relatives but as longtime enemies; channelling Bakunin, he claims that the Marxist intention to smash the state by seizing it first is a "pipe dream".

And Matt Gonzalez, who presented monthly art shows at his City Hall office throughout his tenure as a city supervisor from 2001 to 2004, once allowed the graffiti artist Barry McGee to paint "smash the state" on his office walls.

"People who a decade before were chanting 'Two-four-six-eight, organize and smash the state!' would get dressed up and go to Helen's," said Kate Coleman, a journalist who was a leader in the Free Speech Movement of 1964.

A giant picture of a penis stood erect on the Treasury wall, "revolution" and "smash the state" were painted across the Foreign Office and "Fuck Nick Clegg" was sprayed on the Cabinet Office.

I still remember their chants, which bemused many of the older marchers: "Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh / We shall fight and we shall win" and "Two, four, six, eight / Organise and smash the state".

There are also chunks of character comedy, including a flash of Munnery's dated smash-the-state alter ego Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, and of the Security Guard who is not so much a character as just a different hat.

In the late spring of 2000, a local advocacy group called Eugene Active Existence organized the Seven Week Revolt, a smash-the-state festival to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the city's June 18 , 1999 anarchist riot.

As I noted last year, the falling iron ore price has smashed the state's budget.

Temperatures in the outback New South Wales town of Bourke on Wednesday could reach 41C, smashing the state heat record for September, which was broken on Saturday when Wilcannia hit 40.5C.

It's quite easy to talk about smashing the state, but doing it when you're face to face with the "ordinary" silent majority is another thing altogether.