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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. 1002 The Achaeans..jarred and disagreed in the managing of State-affaires.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvi. Illustr. 253 Such as were receiued into State-fauour and friendship by the Roman.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Poetry 58 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. So many Pretenders to Business and State-Imployments.

1704 R. Fiddes Serm. Preach'd Jan. 31 14 What measures are to be taken..is properly a State-question.

1744 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 502/1 While thus you state-authority arraign, You set th' example to this wicked train.

1763 Gentleman's Mag. July 345/1 I see no limitation to state power, if suffered to exceed the bounds of law and justice.

1813 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 26 321 This spiritual jurisdiction..can be completely exercised..without..any state control whatsoever.

1876 Fortn. Rev. Apr. 630 Proof that, as the Katheder-Socialisten maintain in Germany, the part of state-intervention will go on steadily increasing.

1886 Westm. Rev. July 146 A civil injury is an act, which, without necessarily arousing any State antipathy for the agent, arouses State sympathy with another citizen who is hurt by it.

1943 A. Koestler Arrival & Departure iv. 165 State-bureaucracies and managers establish themselves in vital hedgehog positions.

1944 W. Lewis Let. 20 Aug. (1963) 378 Stalin has a working state-system.

1973 Listener 17 May 635/1 That section of the Left which wants greater equality without a massive increase in state ownership.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 31 Mar. 22/3 On state control of industry, the pivotal socialist issue, he had no consistent views.

1984 B. R. Clark Perspectives Higher Educ. ix. 259 ‘State failure’ causes a turn to the market, ‘market failure’ produces movement toward state authority.

1999 D. Waldner State Building & Late Devel. 215 The state would channel funds into state coffers by selling state assets.

2010 Independent on Sunday 19 Dec. 4/1 State authorities were able to lever in private investment to fund the much-needed construction..of hundreds of public buildings.