paternalistic

How To Use paternalistic In A Sentence

• Yet necessary public-health interventions are by nature paternalistic: think fluoridation of municipal water supplies, compulsory vaccinations and mandatory reporting of communicable diseases.
• All these government programs are invasive of privacy, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient.
• Reducing access to credit as a means of preventing overextension, of course, risks reorienting policy towards the paternalistic practices of the past.
• You have a much more paternalistic (maternalistic?) perspective than I do. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime to Repeatedly Insult a Minor
• But for a supposed servant of the people to use such a metaphor to refer to a bill that affects us all in such important ways is outrageously and offensively paternalistic or should I say “maternalistic?” and flies in the face of what the relationship between the citizens and Congress in this country is meant to be. HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it
• At that time, their denial was their belief that they were popular all over the World as a paternalistic big brotherly, goody-goody neighbor.
• It is best to adopt a collaborative approach rather than a didactic or paternalistic manner.
• Changing the medical profession from one that is paternalistic to one that is self aware and quickly responsive to society's expectations is a difficult assignment.
• Migrants were first represented in very paternalistic terms.
• But deep down I would love to see kids mooching round on bikes in groups, scrumping apples and being clipped round the ear'ole by paternalistic cops.