The dispute between parents and LEA in Dewsbury in 1987-88 exemplified this struggle between parent and state agencies over what is essentially the exercise of the paternalistic role concerning the formal education of a child.

Commerzbank, one of the banks that balked at another bailout, argued that much of the blame also rested with Deutsche Bank, which assumed a paternalistic role and yet remained oblivious to the problems.

Paternalistic deception is deception that is ostensibly performed for the deceived individual's own good by a person assuming a paternalistic role, whether they are their actual parent or not.

Mr. Dennis, who is also an auxiliary police officer, former choir leader and occasional motivational speaker, assumes a paternalistic role with his employees.

The state's increased paternalistic role led to the pursuit of a welfare penological philosophy model.

The native people were legally defined as children, and priests took on a paternalistic role, often enforced with corporal punishment.

College students now brought a whole culture of their own onto the campus, eroding the colleges' paternalistic (in loco parentis) role.

The adoption by Hart of a position which accepts the possible paternalistic role of the criminal law requires a 'certain modification of the laissez-faire principles propounded by John Stuart Mill'.

It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them, seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths.