Examples of 'nanny state' in a sentence

Meaning of "nanny state"

nanny state: This phrase describes a government or authority that is perceived to be overly protective, controlling, or intrusive in regulating the personal choices and behaviors of its citizens. It is often used in a critical or derogatory manner to comment on perceived excessive intervention by authorities
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  • A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.

How to use "nanny state" in a sentence

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The nanny state made them illegal.
Where will the nanny state stop.
Nanny state are not available to the poor.
Insert joke about nanny state here.
The nanny state treats us like children.
God spare us from the nanny state.
Nanny state limits the freedom of citizens.
This is the nanny state gone mad.
We are certainly not creating a nanny state.
That is the nanny state mentality gone too far.
We do not want the nanny state.
I do not want a nanny state watching over my every move.
I am not going to indulge in what this nanny state is becoming.
The nanny state problem would become known to everyone.
They reject the nanny state.

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The nanny state has intruded into our lives.
We do not believe in the nanny state.
They do not need a nanny state dictating their every move.
We are tired of being mandated to by the nanny state.
It is the nanny state.
The nanny state follows children all the way through school.
Give me the good old nanny state any day.
But he has also talked of making Singapore less of a nanny state.
Your call for the nanny state to protect you is adorable.
These positions have been described by critics as nanny state behaviour.
Stupid nanny state ruined Christmas.
I think that is the real reason your nanny state banned guns.
But Nanny State is getting long in the tooth.
My woman will never live off handouts from this nanny state.
Returning to capital controls and the nanny state lead to equality in misery.
To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.
It could not exist today in the nanny state with all the helicopter parents.
Freezing the rates is nothing more than more nanny state bull.
Is not Europe where the nanny state culture originated from.
ABS is just another example of the nanny state.
The Nanny State is meeting its fate.
And everything from gay marriage and the nanny state to taxes and terrorism.
The nanny state is over, ladies and gentlemen.
The former end will resist what they see as a nanny state that threatens individualism.
Wimps… the nanny state is only for the wealthy.
And turning America into a nanny state.
Bloody Nanny state bullshit.
I believe in a Nanny State.
I hate all nanny state regulations, such as seat belt laws and smoking bans.
Growing numbers of us can see Nanny State should pack her bags.
Government should not be a nursemaid . We do not want the nanny state.
What sort of nanny state are we promoting?
Certainly too risky in today 's nanny state.
The number of the nanny state has also, if there are problems.
The last remaining home in America 's nanny state.

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