Sentence examples for state mentality from inspiring English sources
Perceiving the schools as a strictly political problem, to be solved by City Hall, "can sometimes lead to a garrison state mentality," Mr. Macchiarola said.
We should have them too.'"In a commentary published in Strategic Review, an English-language policy journal based in Indonesia, Mr Widjajanto says the armed forces have suffered for decades from a "weak state" mentality that makes it impossible to push through more initiatives to create a modern fighting force.
"People think that we should follow this nanny state mentality of the government subsidizing everything," said Sheik Mohammed of the Bahrain economic development board, who noted that Kuwait had just paid $3,000 to every Kuwaiti citizen to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence.
"When Congress dictates which light bulbs folks in South Carolina must buy, it's clear the 'nanny state' mentality has gotten out of control in Washington," said Senator Jim DeMint, one of 27 co-sponsors of a Senate bill calling for repeal of the new efficiency standards.
"What I think is interesting is how much of the authoritarian state mentality people take when they leave the country," Kendzior tells me.
It's a nanny state mentality: don't worry, netizens how I loathe that word!—we'll keep you safe from the online boogeymen.
Your European welfare-state mentality inevitably biased your conclusions.
I have argued that there are dangers in a "small-state mentality".
Critics dismiss the ban as yet another expression of Bloomberg's nanny-state mentality and as a "feel-good placebo" that's doomed to fail.
I wonder whether it is only by voting for independence that the Scots can avoid a small-state mentality, for that mentality seems to be alive and well south of the border.
In place of his recent timid, disparage-the-Tories-but-give-nothing-away approach he has the chance to stride on to genuinely new ground, leaving behind the old Labour producer interests and nanny-state mentality that have so bedevilled the party in the past.The riskYet would the real Tony Blair be that radical, ground-breaking, opinion-leading prime minister?
