Playing the lottery is gambling, which people will do anyway, so why not let the state capture some of this revenue, so it can at least be reinvested in the public good?
Faced with any problem, any crisis - given any excuse - Labour grasp for more information, pulling more and more people into the clutches of state data capture.
George Papandreou, the opposition leader, has denounced the plan as an example of the state's capture by special interests, implying that the only hope of fighting back lies in the mobilisation of ordinary people, determined to save whatever remains of the country's pristine beauty.
President Bush won Virginia by 8 percentage points in both 2000 and 2004, and President Bill Clinton was never able to capture the state when he ran in 1992 and 1996.
The Republican presidential nominee is hoping to pick off enough conservative Democrats and independents, along with Republicans from Pennsylvania's midsection to capture the state for the GOP for the first time since 1988.
Fascism was not, or not simply, a capture of the state by thugs or gamblers.
The soldiers had no intention of repeating mistakes made last month in Mali, where plotters floundered after failing to capture the head of state.
Early last month a group of 12 Saudis and a Yemeni killed two Saudi security guards in an ambush as they tried to cross into Yemen, leading to the deaths of four of the men and the capture of the others, Saudi state media said.
State Department officials said they hope Saddam's capture would move the countries to eliminate some of the debt, which for several countries, runs into billions of dollars.
Fothergill and Linfield used state-of-the-art camera technology to capture nature's predator-prey interplay from great distances without disrupting the hunt.
The State Council said the personal income tax would be adjusted to capture more of the income from the nation's well-to-do.
This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.
The artist, who told police he had a "major reputation" for having "some of the best portraits of children in the last 200 years" told the court there was "no shame" in the so-called "state of grace", saying there was a "moral obligation" to capture that.
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When you start to remove the state from the equation, this opens the door to many potential opportunists, deregulatory capture, and so forth.
Philip Reeker, deputy State Department spokesman, said the tapes underscore the need for continuing international cooperation to capture al Qaeda operatives and freeze the group's financing.
Don't be surprised if they stretch this out to the State of the Union, when Mr. Obama will have a national audience to capture the tax issue.
Following the example of other billionaire NFL owners like Bob Craft and Jerry Jones, Benson and the state are teaming up to develop the Plaza Festival shopping area outside the stadium to capture even more cash.
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The State Department ultimately assisted Mr. Wang in handing himself over to central Chinese authorities so he could avoid capture by local officials loyal to Mr. Bo.
Turkey's capture of Ocalan in Kenya in 1999 did not end his role in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels.
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