How to Use statism in a Sentence

statism

noun

• Their pedigree can be traced back to Plato, the father of statism.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
• The best news is that the eurozone is growing again, while France seems earnest about loosening the grip of statism.
  — Josef Joffe, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• The ideology of the gold standard was laissez-faire; that of the Ph.D. standard (let’s call it) is statism.
  — James Grant, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Macron promises only to nibble at statism’s ragged edges.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 29 Apr. 2017
• Some of the Westerners dared to suggest that autocratic statism might harm China in the long term.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Sharp turns towards statism and government overreach at City Hall and in Albany threaten the gains of the last generation.
  — WSJ, 12 July 2018
• For those who might decry this as nanny-statism, a couple of points: First, the tax credit would be an optional incentive.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• That would only accelerate the trends of uniformity, statism, and alienation, frustrating our long-range aims.
  — Andy Smarick, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• In his cosmopolitan family, Ellul grew up with a distrust of statism, which partially explains his attraction to Marx.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2011
• The fact that this anti-statism, following the horseshoe, creates common ground between left populism and right populism, with all the hate, violence and injustice the latter breeds, is not a matter Stoller pursues.
  — Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Unfortunately, there appears to be a concerted effort to move the United States rapidly away from localism toward statism.
  — Robert Brooks, National Review, 28 July 2021
• As a general rule, a recommendation to follow the European Union down the rabbit hole of statism never delivers as advertised.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019
• David Friedman, emancipated from the statism of his father, Milton, admitted that the market might not be able to handle such problems perfectly; but government handles them even less perfectly.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Just as leaders then needed a rebuttal to the view that wartime centralized planning was superior to the free market and should be continued in peacetime, leaders today must be reminded that statism shouldn’t be the model for post-Covid governance.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, WSJ, 17 June 2020
• Populism was a central idea nearly every speaker vehemently opposed because of its ability to enable despotism and statism.
  — Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2020
• Every form of statism — from absolute monarchy to socialism to fascism — involves the state forming an alliance with some faction or another and giving it preferential treatment.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
• Central American corruption, statism and crony capitalism have led to poverty and exclusion.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 6 May 2018
• Some of the sentiments expressed by the Rooseveltian national conservatives, by contrast, came dangerously close to endorsing the civil-society-consuming statism to which Burke was so opposed.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Oppressive statism and compulsory structures have long sapped human creativity.
  — Robert Brooks, National Review, 28 July 2021
• Alternatives of populist statism or socialism will both require greater public expenditure and worsen economic outcomes for everyone.
  — The Economist, 18 Oct. 2019
• The procedures of American conservatism can ward off statism, empower citizens, facilitate community action, and protect faith communities.
  — Andy Smarick, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020

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