Sentence examples for state hand from inspiring English sources

Human-rights activists brandished banners protesting that the torturers of the past roam free, and demanding that the state hand over the bodies of the disappeared, including Ben Barka's.

As far back as 1999, in a thesis and an academic article, he laid out his view that natural resources could revive Russia's economic fortunes after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but only with a strong state hand.

Rather than using the state to boost competition, Mr Miliband wants a heavier state hand in markets which betrays an ill-founded faith in the ingenuity and wisdom of government.

Mr. Wang argues that Mr. Bo posed a challenge to this style of information management by putting debate about his famous "Chongqing model" of development — marked by a strong state hand in the economy, affordable housing for the poor and urban residency for migrant workers — into the public sphere.

And now that my fingernails have finally been purged of the mud that encrusted them, and my trusty tent has at last dried out, I can categorically state, hand on heart, that I had one of my best festivals ever – without once fighting my way through the crowds en route to the main stage.

For example, if you're a business owner, taxation often works like this: Instead of paying a tax bill of, say, $100,000, you pay $40,000 to the state, hand a $20,000 bribe to the tax collector, and keep $40,000.

In contrast, the left is divided which makes for interesting debates, but not such fat state hand-outs.

It means, for example, that a family of Polish newcomers could instantly collect £8,000 a year in in-work state hand-outs, courtesy of British taxpayers.

Their story could be seen as another that prompts opprobrium from socially conservative commentators, eager to blame state hand-outs and subsidised council housing for a rise in teenage pregnancies.

No one has so far satisfactorily explained why the money (which was confiscated pending an investigation) was carried in a suitcase and not transferred to a bank.The country's athletes, who are often almost wholly dependent on state hand-outs, are understandably reluctant to criticise the government.

Energy remains almost entirely in state hands.