If any more claimants to the growing swarm of self-confessed wreckers have appeared, our paternalistic government chooses not to let us know.

This, they say, was mostly in the form of a "paternalistic" government which believed in the need to speed the country's economic growth, rather than in the form of an ideologically leftist government.

His stories illustrate the difficulty of achieving self-sufficiency and contentment in a dysfunctional and poverty-stricken society living under a paternalistic government.

Ronald Reagan loved to point to examples of spontaneous neighborliness to justify his opposition to "paternalistic" government.

Instead, those assets were kept in trust for them by a paternalistic federal government.

It was a logical, if extreme, product of his paternalistic big government.

He suggested during the campaign that if he failed to achieve the mandate, he would revert to a more paternalistic, authoritarian government.

He said a more paternalistic, repressive government would be the wrong response to what the voters were seeking by voting for the opposition.

Walk shorts are a symbol of a particularly bureaucratic era of New Zealand's public service and a paternalistic government led by Robert David ("Rob") Muldoon.

How ironic that after the fall of Soviet Communism, numbers of Americans seem to want a paternalistic government, rather than celebrating democracy by entering into the political process with renewed enthusiasm.