In exchange for giving their people the best living standards oil billions can buy, the royal family gets to live it up at state expense, not to mention hold many top government positions.
To hold otherwise would remove any limitations on federal power, at the expense of state sovereignty.
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All exalt state power at the expense of the individual rights of liberty, property, and ultimately life itself.
The share of Swedish children educated privately but at the state's expense grew from negligible to around 12% in just 15 years.
Under Tory proposals, patients who are not treated within a guaranteed time could be transferred to the private sector at the state's expense.
Many older people were lost to the labour force for ever, at the state's expense, and few young people were hired to replace them.
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.
The advance of drug cartels, terrorist groups and criminality at the expense of state authority is, in the minds of the OAS leaders, only an American problem.
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The police, the army and the ruling party are growing stronger, at the expense of such state institutions as parliament and the courts.
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Most Croats feel strongly that friends of Tudjman who have become rich in recent years at the expense of the state should be punished.
WTO, it will have to cede sovereignty upwards, to a rules-based, supranational body, downwards to individual consumers and private companies at the expense of the state-industrial complex, the party's main base.
Robert Gates, who seems to be staying on as defence secretary, has been arguing for years that America has invested too much in the Pentagon at the expense of the State Department.
Opponents have argued that such schemes will subsidise private schools at the expense of weakening the state sector and that it will leave inner-city state schools, which many pupils will still have to use, in an even more neglected condition.
That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.
The program is a case study in how jobs often override ideology in shaping congressional constituencies: former Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy supported the GE engine with sizable earmarks, and so does his Republican successor Scott Brown even though the Boston Globe found the engine would only produce a few hundred jobs in the Bay State, won largely at the expense of neighboring Connecticut.
In the case of public employers, such laws at the local and state level have led to large settlements being paid at taxpayers' expense.
In the past, France has seen a series of state-led bailouts, at vast expense to tax payers.
Would it make sense to continue extending cheap credit to state-owned heavy manufacturers at the expense of greener private-sector start-ups?
Just this week, Yale University said it would open a liberal arts college in Singapore, at the expense of the island-state.
Meanwhile, the hardliners are capturing key squares on the chessboard of Washington power, at the expense of the moderates at state.
That, in turn, could have repercussions in Bosnia, where the Bosnian Serbs would rather unite with Serbia proper, at the expense of the unitary Bosnian state, weak though it is.
The reality is that Chavez has designed a model of "totalitarian democracy" where he has used state resources to gain political power at the expense of civil society and where petro-dollars have allowed him to buy the hearts and votes of people who have chosen to ignore the fact that they have less representation, less dignity, and fewer rights.
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Are we a caring and compassionate state or more concerned with balancing the budget at the expense of the least fortunate?
Do we cut federal and state spending just to win points with political bases at the expense of those truly in need?
If talks between India and the Hurriyat make headway, it is likely to be at the expense of Pakistan's aspiration to rule the state.
Then look at your home-state plan, focusing on just two things: the expense ratio and the availability of a state tax deduction.
Far from engendering peace, the two-state paradigm empowered the most corrupt and violent actors in Palestinian society, at the expense of its most productive and moderate citizens.
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Nevertheless, Safeco Chief Executive MichaelMcGavickMichael McGavick, who will soon leave his post to run for the U.S. Senate from Washington State, hammered away at politicians he sees as pandering to individual voters at the expense of common sense business practices for the insurance industry.
Nevertheless, Safeco Chief Executive Michael McGavick , who will soon leave his post to run for the U.S. Senate from Washington State, hammered away at politicians he sees as pandering to individual voters at the expense of common sense business practices for the insurance industry.
Its state-owned companies and armies of public-sector employees are still pampered at the expense of its entrepreneurs.
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