welfare state

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Recent Examples of welfare state Nearly all of them helped prop up one of the world’s largest welfare states, nationalizing everything from public utilities to the Central Bank. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024 Her policy plan promises a lot of new and expanded tax credits, and would raise taxes on corporations and the very wealthy, but says relatively little about expanding the welfare state. Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024 Advertisement Americans who have had their run-ins with the health insurance industry, never mind our own inadequate welfare state, won’t have trouble feeling indignation. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 The Republican welfare state Republicans spent decades railing against welfare recipients. Ivana Saric, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for welfare state 
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Noun
  • The Jaguars made three straight Class 2A state appearances from 2007 to 2009, finishing as the state runner-up in 2008.
    Tom Schardin, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The task force determined that California courts had enforced fugitive slave laws and that more than 2,000 enslaved people were brought to California to work in gold mines even after it was admitted as a free state in 1850.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.
    Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024
  • Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
Noun
  • In the early stages of the Cold War, Hungary, a client state controlled by the USSR, rebelled, fueled by student demonstrations arguing for secession and freedom of speech.
    Daniel Seifert, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
  • But Assad’s fall (and Russia’s indifference to the collapse of his regime) suggests that concern for Syria or any other client state has been subjugated by Putin to his overriding focus on dealing Ukraine a decisive defeat.
    Alexander Baunov, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For years, the U.S. government has provided millions of dollars worth of condoms and other contraceptives to foreign countries as a way to help prevent the spread of AIDS and HIV and to make sure that family planning is available in developing nations.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • In a market overwhelmingly dominated by U.S. fare (usually above 80%), last year’s dearth of Hollywood titles inevitably hurt the theatrical market of the smallest Nordic nation, which dropped 5.8% in box office to ISK 1.6 billion ($11.4 million), and 9.8% in admissions to 904,809.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His policies, especially cutting taxes, are also popular in the commonwealth, and Earle-Sears’s popularity is higher due to her support for them.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Of course, the state’s senators, representatives and governor conduct the commonwealth’s business here.
    Kim Foley MacKinnon, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, borrowers with loans subject to the settlement's provisions should see their collection efforts halted.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Meta had agreed to a $25 million settlement with Trump over his ban from the platform after Jan. 7, 2021.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
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  • Such situations can become even more complicated when money is involved, as financial dependencies may create additional expectations or obligations.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Traditional monitoring tools, designed for simpler architectures, often struggle with these intricate dependency chains.
    Karthik Sj, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • That same mandate could also reopen the door to millions of acres of federal land that became off limits to hunters during the Biden Administration.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2025
  • As part of the five-day office mandate, Amazon also set a goal to flatten its corporate structure by having fewer managers in each organization.
    Annie Palmer, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025

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