Voorbeelden van affairs of state

• Affairs of state and affairs of the home estate alike were most often managed by ambitious professionals.

• The caretaker cabinets that administer the affairs of state while negotiations proceed generally have no authority to take major policy initiatives.

• The business of government was a preserve for the intellectuals and upper middleclass experts who would manage the affairs of state in the public interest.

• For ages, human rights transgressions and adjudication were essentially internal affairs of state.

• Virtually all modern commentators have taken 'politics' to mean references to kings, princes, and affairs of state.

• All these parts must be close to the magnificence seen in public buildings, because in these houses there are often gatherings dealing with the affairs of state.

• It will not be the great affairs of state but the little things that people cannot understand.

• Those who most need the state's efforts are often those who make the least effort to influence affairs of state.