But I imagine there are certain paternalistic laws he does not favor. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs] Reference
Emanuel, Hillary, and Holbrook reconstitute the PNAC in paternalistic “Democratic” guises. From Wordnik.com. [Is Obama a Terrorist? « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
You think that your attitude was what today we would call paternalistic?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
His idea to collect the tax and then somehow refund to the neediest is the worst kind of paternalistic thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Dems ramp up attacks ahead of pivotal primaries] Reference
Better to be seen as respecting your users wishes as opposed to being the kind of paternalistic overlords that know what is best for them. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook Users Revolt, Facebook Replies] Reference
He added that Lord Colwyn was "paternalistic" towards him. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The Trinamul too started as a 'standard,' paternalistic 'political party. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sweating the Small Stuff, David Whitman described "paternalistic" schools. From Wordnik.com. [Joanne Jacobs] Reference
Ending "paternalistic" observances like Black History Month, Donovan believes, would lead to. From Wordnik.com. [KCRA.com - Local News] Reference
It would be "paternalistic" in that it would not tell the Palestinians the truth as best s we see it. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
States, aided by the South-western States, who were expecting some kind of paternalistic benefit to their hemp or other products. From Wordnik.com. [The United States of America, Part 1] Reference
"paternalistic" in the same way as the hated pietistic invasions of their personal liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)] Reference
For many of them, it was a very paternalistic attitude. From Wordnik.com. ['This Is Not a Bluff'] Reference
This is incredibly paternalistic, these people are not kids. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 19, 2003] Reference
Part of it is that we have to switch from a paternalistic position. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2008] Reference
It wasn't a hostile, vicious attitude, but it was a very paternalistic one. From Wordnik.com. ['This Is Not a Bluff'] Reference
Imbued with the paternalistic attitude of Tuskegee and Hampton, Armstrong saw the. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
The most nonsensical and paternalistic one was to bring freedom to the Iraqi people. From Wordnik.com. [Tomorrow, Tomorrow] Reference
I haven't gotten a lot of criticism, again, except for the paternalistic aspect of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2008] Reference
But at some point, it is a paternalistic; it is a system that says, we know what's right for you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2006] Reference
Ken is a trim, muscular man who could pass for 40, but has the paternalistic charisma of an older man. From Wordnik.com. [My kids drive me up the wall] Reference
The old model of the paternalistic owner caring for a community has become as outdated as the typewriter. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Zirin: What Pro Sports Owners Owe Us] Reference
And in their own way, I'm sure they feel that they are doing what is best -- that paternalistic attitude. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2007] Reference
It's very hard to carve an island of California-style entrepreneurship out of paternalistic Asian societies. From Wordnik.com. [Is Silicon Asia Sprouting?] Reference
If anything, the school was perhaps too protective, too paternalistic, too good at making Ashby feel at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghetto Preppies] Reference
Royall's sincere interest in the welfare of black soldiers, albeit highly paternalistic, was not in question. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
If only their corrupt, parochial, paternalistic and, yes, socialist governments would just get out of the way!. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Will Get It Right] Reference
Talent and labor once worked under strict contracts in a? paternalistic studio system; now they are freelancers. From Wordnik.com. [Film’s New Anxiety of Influence] Reference
Sweden's paternalistic welfare state is partly to blame for some immigrants 'marginal status in the economy, said Mr. Svensson. From Wordnik.com. [Far-Right Party Wins Seats in Sweden] Reference
Possibly because Boobie is a boy, who has to learn to take it like a man, and Kim is a girl, who needs paternalistic protection?. From Wordnik.com. [Old Too Soon, Wise Too Late?] Reference
But Obama shows every sign of instinctively resisting a paternalistic and overarching public sector as much as most Americans do. From Wordnik.com. [The Staying Power of the S Word] Reference
The unabashedly paternalistic model once earned Singapore the reputation as a "nanny state" in a region known for its all-night neon. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Back the Waterfront] Reference
Its religions commonly cast humans as the pinnacle of nature: at best its paternalistic supervisors, at worst its righteous conquerors. From Wordnik.com. [Stanley Knick, Ph.D.: Traditional Culture and Modern Culture: Man's Fall from Grace] Reference
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