Similar words: welfare, estate, intestate, deforestation, reforestation, estates general, gestation, state. Meaning: n. a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc..
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1. The welfare state never came close to eliminating poverty.
2. The welfare state was set up to provide a safety net for the poor and needy.
3. These changes clearly signal the end of the welfare state as we know it.
4. But those problems are real and the social welfare state is in retreat.
5. The welfare state was restricted, and many workers' protections were stripped out in the name of free enterprise.
6. The modern welfare state is interested not so much in relieving poverty as redistributing income to achieve a more egalitarian distribution.
7. Because the welfare state is not neutral with respect to gender equality, it also takes sides on the question of language.
8. Our welfare state encourages, even ensures, poverty among retired people.
9. With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
10. The expectation that government action, through the welfare state, could remove inequality and uniformly improve living standards was openly challenged.
11. This model assumes that the welfare state can combat the worst injustice of modern capitalist societies.
12. Yet the defence of the welfare state in the face of the new immigration has revealed an undercurrent of racism.
13. These programmes were founded on a comprehensive Welfare State system complemented by the demand management of an expanding mixed economy.
14. I believe that the Government's general aim is to whittle away the Welfare State.
15. Their aim is to reduce people's dependency on the welfare state.
16. After 1951 Winston Churchill and his Conservative successors protected the welfare state, maintained full employment, and conciliated the trade unions.
17. Labour had disappointed many of its supporters, who closely identified the party with the advancement of the welfare state.
18. Just what was to be involved in the radical realignment of the welfare state was not always clear.
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19. Through the development of community services and a decentralised, non-bureaucratic welfare state, we can lift people out of poverty and deprivation.
20. In Parliament, opposition spokesmen condemned the proposals as an attack on the welfare state and a break with the consensus.
21. All such measures should be presented as part of a thought-out programme to recast the welfare state.
22. But the businessmen who are the driving force behind the TECs may feel diffident about administering a chunk of the welfare state.
23. This view sums up the present Conservative philosophy, seen in government policies towards the welfare state, local government and taxation.
24. Politicians, whether cynically or not, have so far dismissed such claims as pleas for a lawyers' welfare state.
25. After the Thatcher revolution, nostalgia for the lost stabilities and decencies of the welfare state is understandable.
26. However, the concern with the cost and scope of the Welfare State has been ideological as well as purely economic.
27. The hardest reforms will involve means-testing, challenging the assumptions of the welfare state, and cutting public expenditure.
28. The liberal politicians sigh with relief and continue their efforts to enlarge the welfare state.
29. The campaign in the popular press mobilised a backlash against the very idea of the welfare state itself.
30. The spirit of comradeship that had made victory possible had the welfare state as one of its natural corollaries.
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