The phrase "a significant state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state that has considerable importance or impact in a particular context, such as politics, economics, or social issues.
Example: "The research highlighted the role of a significant state in shaping regional policies and international relations."
Alternatives: "an important state" or "a notable state".
By the time someone presents behavioural symptoms, such as forgetfulness, his brain is already in a significant state of disrepair.
Transformational systems perform terminating computations that, when terminated, do not leave the system in a significant state.
The reasonableness of highway checkpoints, at issue here, turns on whether they effectively serve a significant state interest with minimal intrusion on motorists.
A conservative court handed the NAACP Legal Defense Fund one of its greatest victories in years by not only endorsing the law school's affirmative action program, but declaring that diversity can, as a legal matter, be a significant state interest.
Compare that situation with New York and New Jersey's in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: Those states (plus Connecticut) already pushed a significant state and local tax burden onto their residents.
(d) While there is a significant state interest in eradicating the effects of past racial discrimination, there is little doubt that Georgia's true interest was to satisfy the Justice Department's preclearance demands.
New York's recent bird takeover offers a portal into a more significant state of culinary affairs: chicken, often passed over for, say, smoky pork and succulent beef, is currently the darling of proteins.
A political appointee hired by the Trump administration for a significant State Department role was accused of multiple sexual assaults as a student several years ago at The Citadel military college.
The results of the pooled bivariate model show a very high significant state dependence between the two stati, saving and remitting.
Michael Blosser says his Occupy group at the University of South Florida will hold walkouts and teach-ins as a response to significant state budget cuts.
Consider the international conventions that ban whaling, but with huge exceptions presumably based on science and/or national interests of a few significant states.
