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Example sentences for "paternalistic"

Lexicographically close words:
patera; paterfamilias; paterna; paternal; paternalism; paternally; paterne; paternelle; paternity; paternosters
  1. In the establishment of a constitution for the new colony, Henderson with paternalistic wisdom induced the people to adopt a legal code based on the laws of England.

  2. In order to understand the development of Social Democracy in Germany, it is necessary to bear in mind the bureaucratic, autocratic, paternalistic character of the German government.

  3. The resolutions of this conference were pervaded by the traditional apostolic paternalistic spirit of the Church.

  4. Even the Labor Party is divided over the paternalistic measure that aims to bring relief to the sick and disabled working man and woman.

  5. Show also that the Law of 1647, as well as modern state school laws, is neither paternalistic nor socialistic in essential purpose.

  6. It is important to note here," adds Mr. Martin, "that the idea underlying all this legislation is neither paternalistic nor socialistic.

  7. Defending this paternalistic argument, Eisenhower told the Senate: In general, the Negro is less well educated .

  8. Imbued with the paternalistic attitude of Tuskegee and Hampton, Armstrong saw the Negro as possessing a separate culture more attuned to vocational training.

  9. In short, the armed forces had to make inefficiency seem efficient as they explained in paternalistic fashion that segregation was best for all concerned.

  10. The measure was passed by the vote of the Eastern or manufacturing States, aided by the South-western States, who were expecting some kind of paternalistic benefit to their hemp or other products.

  11. So rapidly did the demand for paternalistic measures take possession of the people, that Monroe felt called upon to re-state the early principles of the party, as Madison had done a few years before.

  12. Jefferson, in various presidential messages, had suggested this way of meeting the demand for these paternalistic benefits.

  13. The extension of this paternalistic principle to internal commerce would come in time with the movement of the people inland.

  14. But it was inevitable that when the engrossing foreign questions should cease, the demand for paternalistic measures would be renewed with a zeal doubled by delay and by the new spirit of nationality.

  15. It was impossible for the Administration, in providing for the welfare and defence of the acquisition, not to be drawn into measure after measure of that paternalistic nature for which the party had so roundly criticised the Federalists.

  16. Some of the disapproval was born of Force's paternalistic attitude toward the Australian hacking scene.

  17. Its economic state is modeled directly on the Prussian bureaucratic and paternalistic state.

  18. That is precisely the kind of tyranny or liberty that was enjoyed by the victims of the paternalistic laws above described.

  19. Paternalistic philanthropies and sentimental charities, which sprang up like mushrooms, only tended to increase the evils of indiscriminate breeding.

  20. Employers are often unwilling to adopt such devices as these, while the laborers frequently regard them as paternalistic measures which at best are a poor substitute for the higher wages to which they consider themselves entitled.

  21. He is repressed by no paternalistic government, embarrassed by no feudal system.

  22. The great task confronting our government is to do as much for the individual as any paternalistic government, without endangering his rights by an undue extension of governmental control.

  23. From a few sources not readily accessible to the masses, I have copied a partial summary of paternalistic legislation which even the most devout devotees to mass or ruling class wisdom would now decline to defend.

  24. I think it not unlikely that eventually the demos, thinking of the future, will be as paternalistic as was Louis XIV, who told the habitant of the St. Lawrence how many horses he should keep.

  25. The French communities that grew in the midst of those naked timocrats, whose savagery they soothed by beads and crucifixes and weapons, were the plantings of absolutism paternalistic to the last degree.

  26. The little outcast colony was laid on the steps of Versailles again, and was again subject to "paternalistic nursing," because of or in despite of which it began at last to show signs of growth.

  27. A similar paternalistic attitude has developed in the legislatures of several States to a noticeable degree.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paternalistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.