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How to use paternalistic in a sentence

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No wonder the Singhalese lawyer was appalled by an approach which reeked of such paternalistic colonialism.
And, gee whiz, you would also understand the paternalistic attitudes of the time and the nature of defense of the country.
Prominent firms adamantly resisted unionization, engendering the allegiances of workers through paternalistic benefit plans.
All these government programs are invasive of privacy, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient.
It is best to adopt a collaborative approach rather than a didactic or paternalistic manner.
We no longer practice in a paternalistic system where medical authorities dictate to patients what is in their interests.
At that time, their denial was their belief that they were popular all over the World as a paternalistic big brotherly, goody-goody neighbor.
An authoritarian response would be to delegate power to a paternalistic dictator, a Platonic philosopher king.
He was sharply aware of the pain of humiliation and dependency, the hatefulness and hurtfulness of paternalistic rule.
Make no mistake, the Democrats are guilty as well, they are often elitist and paternalistic.
His economic views are rooted in the paternalistic, interventionist tradition of postwar Germany.
Its public health administrators have inherited many illiberal attitudes of the paternalistic bygone regime.
In the film, recurring news broadcasts suggest the passing of paternalistic Titoism and the rise of ethnic supremacism.
One question underlying the trial will be how paternalistic the company's culture really has been.
Firm but fair, educated but impulsive, he embodies the finer qualities of a paternalistic seafarer proud of his ability to serve his country.
Assimilation is based on the paternalistic belief that there is little of worth to indigenous culture.
But Sandy refused to freeze him out of the conversation and kept putting a paternalistic arm on his shoulder and buying him more lager.
Many housing executives view people from a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude.
The paternalistic account supposes that the masters of mankind have their inferiors' interest at heart.
Poor women with children are discussed in punitive, paternalistic terms of single motherhood and personal irresponsibility.
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He might have planned a program of paternalistic propaganda in behalf of the farmers of the county.
It is always the paternalistic arm of the Government round every little son of Nippon, or the embrace of his family.
That is precisely the kind of tyranny or liberty that was enjoyed by the victims of the paternalistic laws above described.
Norway has been in the forefront in this paternalistic movement.
Robbins had banned retirement stories and news obits of Post people, as had long been the tradition when the paper was owned by the paternalistic Pulitzer family.
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