Sentence examples similar to state obsessions from inspiring English sources

Between the 1967 lines dear to the Palestinians and the Jewish state obsession of Netanyahu, finding a suitable form of words to encourage talks proved beyond the Quartet.

We now have a kindergarten arms race where school and state obsession with test scores, parental competition and anxiety and teacher preferences for older students have changed the very nature of a child's first year of elementary school.

Blame it on the No Child Left Behind Act, but we now have a kindergarten arms race where school and state obsession with test scores, parental competition and anxiety and teacher preferences for older students have changed the very nature of a child's first year of elementary school.

People have protested the mayor's nanny-state obsessions, but he has made much of it stick.

For Labour, the coalition's anti-state obsession provides a golden opportunity.

Playing from the perspective of either a US or Hawaiian soldier could make for a game that touches on hot-button issues and sheds light into the harsh repercussions that resulted from the States' obsession with Manifest Destiny.

Americans have spent the past two years in a state of obsession with their presidential campaign.

Chen blamed his treatment on local officials and the Chinese state's obsession with maintaining stability at all costs.

Ag-Rhissa recalled many broken promises and still fears "the Malian state's obsession with the myth of sovereignty", but he believes that "the latest solution is the least ill that's been found in 50 years' conflict".

One question I attempted to answer while in Alabama is whether or not the state's obsession with football was a positive or a negative: Did the attention placed on a game enhance life in the state, or simply help its citizens gloss over issues that might be worth confronting?

The saddest part of the state's obsession with the past and Pitino is that Smith, the first African-American head coach at a school that has had to live down the less-than-enlightened reputation of Adolph Rupp, has not been given due credit.