welfare state
Example Sentences
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In the Danish city of Kolding, voters are worried about rising prices, the welfare state and immigration ahead of the country's general election, reflecting nationwide concerns reinforced by worries about Greenland and global uncertainty.
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Despite the high service level of Denmark’s welfare state, Greenlanders’ health lags behind that of Danes.
In any case, he says, “in modern welfare states, the struggle for subsistence has been abolished.”
Foreign economists want Beijing to build a bigger welfare state to encourage more household spending.
After Khomeini’s historic compromise and subsequent death, Iran entered the 1990s under Khamenei buoyed by economic growth, postwar reconstruction and the building of a welfare state with high levels of education and healthcare.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
