Paternalistic in a sentence

Bezzubetz was working to change a paternalistic system into a collaborative system, he said.

Management is coming off as a little paternalistic as well.

Moscow has been incredibly effective at offering an alternative to that paternalistic approach.

The subject matter also feels dated, as Christian and a wealthy benefactor, The Duke (James Bryers), fight over Satine; Christian’s characterisation in particular verges on manipulative, and the language can be paternalistic.

A lawsuit challenges the onerous requirements for getting sterilized, calling the regulations paternalistic and a violation of women’s constitutional rights.

But she’s also rightfully annoyed with the paternalistic approach of the local police chief.

He also spoke in paternalistic terms.

Lastly, I close out with theories that are exceptions to the rule and are not Eurocentric or paternalistic and with a minimum of racism.

What these perspectives have in common is a paternalistic approach to criminal-justice reform that treats residents of these areas with condescension.

But step back and think about how paternalistic and condescending that explanation is.

He inflamed passions by calling for the overthrow of the tyrant, and supported a paternalistic, authoritarian vision of society.

I think it’s fine to be a little benevolently paternalistic in this case.

It is true that China’s paternalistic state has ways to support Chinese businesses with cheaper credit and tax cuts.

Often linked by a family name to an older generation of Caribbean businessman but much less so women, they were usually paternalistic, influential and often philanthropic.

The struggle to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales shows how women can organise to have reproductive rights recognised, putting paid to the paternalistic and wrong assumption that we cannot be trusted to make decisions about our bodies.

From the beginning, Upworthy’s social-justice curation machine was based on a specific, paternalistic set of ideas.

Although the peasants were no longer tied to the same land as serfs had been, the old paternalistic relationship in East Prussia lasted into the 20th century.

Authored in a paternalistic style that depicted the Congolese as childlike idiots, in later decades it would be accused of racism, however at the time was un-controversial and popular, with further publicity stunts held to increase sales.

Baker argues that Klansmen seriously embraced Protestantism as an essential component of their white supremacist, anti-Catholic, and paternalistic formulation of American democracy and national culture.

Blake (1967), p. 168 For many years in his parliamentary career Disraeli hoped to forge a paternalistic Tory-Radical alliance, but he was unsuccessful.