Sentence examples for statist from inspiring English sources

The previous year Sturgeon had conceded in an interview that as Labour shifted to the right, the SNP had, in turn, perhaps become rather "centralist and statist" in its outlook.

So the Liberals propose illiberal policies, Labour targets the poor and the Tories impose bureaucratic and statist solutions.

Clegg regarded the 2005 manifesto as incoherent, statist, pro-producer and unchallenging.

I am suspicious of creating a monster National Investment Bank: it is too statist and needs to cater to too many different requirements.

A party rooted in economically leftish constituencies where immigration is mainly a cultural issue will be markedly more statist and authoritarian than one rooted in coastal, Toryish seats where it is not probably excessively so, for some libertarian, pro-market types in UKIP.

Since the Islamic Revolution, statist Iran has been greatly overtaken by liberalising Turkey, its big rival to the north-west.

Wedded to Labour's statist tradition, he has abandoned the Blairite public-service reforms so utterly that they are now popularly attributed to the ruling Tories.

It could have been a pertinent point in a campaign much concerned with the merits of individual and collective action, but Mr Obama overdid the finger-wagging, marvelling at the successful people he met who think they are "just so smart".The moment suggested that the president is more statist than Middle America, and a bit priggish too.

It is less self-critical when it comes to its tendency to err on the statist side in covering public services.

For instance, she wants Poland to join the euro because it is a successful, competitive economy and a useful counterweight to statist France.

And in most countries above all, Brazil (see article and Argentina one thing no longer marches with it: inflation. True, it may start up again, and far more easily than statist economics could. But everywhere it is recognised as the evil that it is.This is indeed a new world. But not one that needs a new Columbus to claim it or reshape it. Far from it.