big government
Britishnoun
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Frank Capra, the multiple Academy Award winner whose everyman heroes symbolized the American spirit triumphing over mercenary or venal big business and big government, died Tuesday at his desert retirement home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
In 2020 American Compass defended organized labor as a means for combating big government, writing: “We prefer the private ordering of bargains between workers and management to overbearing dictates from Washington.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
The OBR - which is independent of government - assesses the health of the UK's economy and usually publishes its forecasts alongside big government events, such as the Budget and Autumn Statement.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023
Donald Kohn, a former vice chair of the Fed, said big government deficits and the transition to green energy could keep growth and rates higher by propping up demand for borrowed cash.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
“Get your map, John—the big government map—and let’s have a look at this country in west of here.”
From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough
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