Sentence examples for a means of state from inspiring English sources

I'll believe this government is wrong about a lot of things, but not that it would knowingly embrace systematic torture as a means of state policy.

Greene puts forth what she calls a "paranoid theory of copyright," under which literary property rights are a means of state regulation to assign responsibility for printed works, to identify one person who will step forward and claim the work in exchange for the right to reap the benefits of the literary marketplace.

Rubens, however, found in allegorical symbolism a means of dramatizing mundane state commissions, such as The Union of Scotland and Ireland and The Bounty of James I (Triumphing over Avarice).

Previous work demonstrates the potential for measuring gene expression within peripheral blood as a means of assessing ongoing disease states.

A trait, not a state, a means of incorporating these methods into our lives so that flow, or ecstasis, is threaded through all our months and years.

During the 1990s, states embraced legalised gambling as a means of supplementing state revenue.

One academic at Moscow State University told the US embassy that Russia lacked a means of enforcing state ideology – that there was no institution tasked to create "historical propoganda" which prevented widespread attacks on academic freedom.

We continue to oppose gambling as a means of financing state government.

They argue that Congress meant to limit subsidies to state exchanges as a means of "inducing states to take the desired action of establishing Exchanges".

Restrictions on the subsidization of prescription costs paid by patients in the community may be a means of controlling state-funded drug use.

As I show, however, enforcement authority can serve as a potent means of state influence, enabling states to adjust the intensity of enforcement and to press their own interpretations of federal law.