How to Use big government in a Sentence

big government

noun

• Here again, big government has been part of the problem.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
• Railing against big government, all the rage in 2010, is now firmly out of style.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Jan. 2022
• If the Covid vaccine push has proved anything, it’s that big government works.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Jan. 2021
• If local and state governments can’t make the rent go down, then the biggest government of them all might need to step in.
  — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
• And in fact, many of the features of big government (19th-century style) fell away before long.
  — Andrew Ferguson, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2020
• With outrage at big government in Madison and Washington in the wake of the Great Recession at its height, the time had come.
  — Brian Reisinger, National Review, 17 Aug. 2020
• Progressives don't want to hear it, but the era of big government is probably over again.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 2 Feb. 2022
• Because this is big government telling people what to do.
  — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022
• What was once largely the domain of big government is now increasingly the realm of Big Tech.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• Locals say Uniontown is a place where many people distrust big government and are wary of strangers.
  — al, 16 Mar. 2021
• The crisis could be traced to that other defining Texas trait: independence, both from big government and from the rest of the country.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2021
• In Britain the Big Four face threats of break-up after the failure last year of Carillion, a big government contractor for which all four had done work.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2019
• For Democrats, the concept is a wager on big government at a time when faith in democratic governance is at a low ebb.
  — Jonathan Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• To many in the GOP, big business has become a more attractive target than big government.
  — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
• One winner, even if Republican Trump stays in the White House, is big government.
  — Nick Wadhams, Fortune, 18 May 2020
• Whether such an attitude holds, however, could be a key signal of whether big government is back to stay.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2021
• The larger lesson is that sooner or later the middle class always gets the bill for bigger government.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
• Powell has always been a fixer, with a deft hand, who has helped accommodate the needs of big money and big government.
  — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
• The biggest threat to competition and consumers in our time is the collusion of big business and big government.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2021
• Defenders of these policies need to face the basic question: If big government is so good, why aren’t people willing to pay for it?
  — Tomas J. Philipson, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• But the resistance to making the child tax credit permanent is a sign that even in a White House that embraces big government, there are some limits.
  — Josh Boak, ajc, 30 Apr. 2021
• The lessons of Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992 and the backlash against Barack Obama’s attempts to fix health care seemed to be that the country is as hostile to big government as ever.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• The most ambitious private spaceflight industry dreams start here at 39A, the site of the biggest government successes of the Space Age.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2018
• Biden's 100-day gamble on big government leaves little room for failures.
  — Alex Connor, USA TODAY, 2 May 2021
• Did big government deliver on the noble intention of big solutions in terms of the creation of new jobs?
  — Rajshree Agarwal, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• The left tends to push control by central authority and big government.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
• Konczal too blithely assumes the neoliberal era has met its end and a new dawn of big government is emerging.
  — Stephen Eide, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
• The lesson of Covid capitalism is that big business needs big government, and vice versa.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
• Twenty years ago a Democratic president declared that the era of big government was over.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• In announcing the mandate, the governor seemed to publicly weigh her concerns about big government versus the need to take action.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024