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He regarded himself as a model employer-a paternalist, yes, but that is what the men wanted, was it not?

As an industrialist, he was a philanthropist and a paternalist.

"He's a politician in the traditional paternalist mold."

He was a paternalist towards his workforce.

An enlightened paternalist, he was happier in his relations with the students and shaped the careers of many of them.

But if we are to generalise, it is better to characterise the Tory position as paternalist, rather than populist.

It has been argued that Chalmers was both a paternalist, on the moral plane, and a supporter of economic individualism.

The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970-4.

Slaves, on the other hand, recognized that paternalist ideology could be twisted to suit their own ends, by providing them with improved living and working conditions.

Take that, you do-gooding, liberal paternalists!

GFA works for empowerment of targeted populations, not dependence (non paternalist organization).

Nor does he expect the proposal to please paternalists offended by rules that obligate people on welfare to follow the government's route to eventual self-sufficiency.

Before buying it, he participated in 70 student demonstrations in his "human skin" to protect demonstrators from police, which he found impractical and paternalist.

He was absolutely opposed to the paternalist dispensation which saw JP's fixing prices and action against sharp practice.

In fact, in a stunning display of hypocrisy, some white paternalists accused rebellious slaves of ingratitude.

Arnoldian values, paternalist but progressive, had been transformed by the twin forces of capitalism and imperialism into an openly conservative code.

By the beginning of the medieval era, the Christian paternalist ethic was "thoroughly entrenched in the culture of Western Europe."

Now restored to print, this book argues that slave owners, far from being paternalists, were ruthless capitalists who regarded slaves purely as cash investments.

But if Lawes was a paternalist, he was willing to test his belief in "his boys" on himself and his family.

The paternalist streak in Toryism is something very different - a recognition that a hierarchical society cannot long survive if the rulers do not look after the ruled.

Paternalist ideology, they believed, also gave the institution of slavery a more benign face and helped deflate the increasingly strong abolitionist critique of the institution.

She thus shows the elitist, paternalist (and shallow) roots of Franklin's progressivism, his tendency to compromise, the personalism of his program.

Tory paternalists reacted by calling her a Malthusian "who deprecates charity and provision for the poor", while Radicals opposed her to the same degree.

A right-wing liberal party, it promoted less government control over markets, in contrast to the paternalist and somewhat authoritarian policies of National, the other significant right-wing party.

Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, who had spent most of his career in northern Nigeria, Lugard's country, was a reliable paternalist.