The others treated us a little more paternalistically. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO INTERVIEW WITH BUCARANDA IN CARACAS] Reference
Vic smiled paternalistically, threw an arm across my shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Confederacy of Silence] Reference
No wonder Quental was so paternalistically protective of the tribe!. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
You don't have an absolute right to treat other Christians paternalistically. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson] Reference
With the nature of the times the only way you could function was paternalistically, almost. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harold Fleming, January 24, 1990. Interview A-0363. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And we're jamming it through paternalistically and saying, well, they'll like it after it's in place. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010] Reference
He smiled paternalistically, as if Tiffany were a child unversed in the ways of the upper social strata. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Desire]
Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, turned to paternalistically justified prostate policies with awful results. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?] Reference
The boss man is on the one hand exploitative and on the other hand, in a sense, paternalistically protective. From Wordnik.com. [intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated] Reference
Should we begin acting paternalistically towards this class again, as if they had no capacity to think for themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
However, I would prefer to let them make their own mistakes rather than have mistakes forced on them paternalistically. From Wordnik.com. [Adverse Results for School Vouchers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It might be thought, as Mill did, that the burden of proof is different depending on who is being treated paternalistically. From Wordnik.com. [Paternalism] Reference
You can say for many Southern white people that, individually, they have been paternalistically helpful to many individual Negroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
There is a difference between Thomas Nelsons' desire to filter its writers and your need to paternalistically protect others from "sects.". From Wordnik.com. [Nelson] Reference
Big white men and self-appointed mouthpieces from up high come down to paternalistically save the 'lowly' African, like a bad Tarzan movie. From Wordnik.com. [An Altamont For The Me Generation ?] Reference
The Hollywood Mind is definitely a real thing, a vicious thing, a blank thing, that paternalistically insists It knows what the public wants. From Wordnik.com. [Question of Comfort] Reference
In a sense, behavioral economics extends the paternalistically protected category of “idiots” to include most people, at predictable times. From Wordnik.com. [A Case for Paternalism?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Places with fewer checks and balances, like Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, turned to paternalistically justified prostate policies with awful results. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Supposedly Superior Expertise of Regulators Justify Libertarian Paternalism?] Reference
The TUC approached African unions and paternalistically offered to use its resources and energies to assist those unions to gain strength and efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [4. RULING CLASS RESPONSE] Reference
The state's strict regulations give banks leeway to act paternalistically, says Robert Bishop, vice president of Passumpsic Savings Bank in St. Johnsbury. From Wordnik.com. [Vermont Mortgage Laws Shut the Door on Bust -- and Boom] Reference
Politically the Democrats appear to want to paternalistically 'supply needs' while the Republicans appear to want to paternalistically 'regulate conduct.'. From Wordnik.com. [Against Paternalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
However, I, unlike others, have no intention of paternalistically or ignorantly second-guessing the rulings of Honduran courts on questions of Honduran law. From Wordnik.com. [Lanny Davis: Hypocrisy, Paternalism, and Ignorance on Honduras] Reference
After all, the American public is getting what it wants in the way of automobiles; to expect the manufacturers to act paternalistically is absurd and deluded. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the VW] Reference
Neither am I going to complain overmuch about well-meaning and highly professional people who are genuinely doing their best, however paternalistically, to help others. From Wordnik.com. [Manslaughter, Marriage and Medicine] Reference
For the DA to say black people should not talk about their racial plight "is basically to inflict pain on us, and to paternalistically blame us for complaining about it". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
As it turned out, not only did she likely save my life with her advice, but she saved me, too, from muddying my face tripping over my own paternalistically arrogant conceit. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Warriors] Reference
The border state governors doing absolutely nothing to help with this issue and continuing to look paternalistically if you will toward Mexico instead of taking concrete action. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2008] Reference
The comments, as our letter says, suggest an Orwellian future where deprivation of choice and independence are paternalistically justified as unparalleled advances in consumerism. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Court: Our Letter To Eric Schmidt: Google Shouldn't Care More About Its Own Privacy Than Ours] Reference
The fourth stage was Africa paternalistically, or simply relating to Africa as aid and a kind of gesture toward people who -- starvation, whose desperation was embarrassing -- we were able to give some aid and did so. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing In Kampala Uganda] Reference
Town slavery, indeed, had a strong tone of domesticity, and the masters were often paternalistically inclined. From Wordnik.com. [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference
It follows, therefore, that Society, which may concern itself paternalistically with individuals, is in no way dependent on them. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
Is anyone else tired of politicians being afraid to ask, because they don't want to hear the answer, and assume they paternalistically know what is best?. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Elaborate, unwieldy workarounds have been suggested - all because Apple users know that the folks in Cupertino often paternalistically ignore their users. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder Development] Reference
The Americans paternalistically slapped us on the back and said, "Nice going, guys. From Wordnik.com. ['We're Fighting A Common Enemy'] Reference
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