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paternalism

puh tur nuh li zuhm

  • n  the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good

  • Said President Green: "As for group insurance that is always paternalistic and the employer wishes to pay as small a price for his paternalism as possible.
  • But it's still paternalism, and Sunstein will have the power to put it into action.
  • On one level you have to admire his paternalism.
Quotes

  • Malcolm Fraser in Independent Online
    Australia has achieved and preserved that wonderful balance by shunning the harshness of the American social security system that leaves too many people out in the cold, it has avoided the ultra-paternalism of the European social security system... John Howard http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFDkwfWMg8IAUPTl_zgAMfcDWHY9A The Age http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theage.com.au/news/federal-election-2007-news/stronger-prouder-richer/2007/11/22/1195321922518.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEcfK2iLo5kTICdoOQKDRYFrsa8OQ Nov 21, 2007 72699 97285 paternalism People must be treated with respect, and in relation to this point they have not been," Fraser told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "In relation to that, I said it was a throwback to past paternalism because it clearly this time has...
  • Laura Bush in Reuters
    The period of aid and paternalism has passed. A joint venture with Africa, that's what the future is all about,Bush said before he left for his Africa tour.

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