Sentence examples for acted as state from inspiring English sources

Later Spruyt acted as State President during the absences of President Pretorius from Bloemfontein.

When Japan annexed Palau from Germany in 1914, Japanese settlers and their descendants acted as state liaison officials and interpreters for the Japanese military administration.

District courts became circuit courts in 1998 and act as state trial courts of general jurisdiction.

In the 1960s, the United States Supreme Court adopted an expansive view of state action opening the door to wide-ranging civil-rights litigation against private actors when they act as state actors (i.e., acts done or otherwise "sanctioned in some way" by the state).

Sixteen other states have acted as well.

All of the active compounds bind to the open-inactivated states of the channels and therefore act as state-dependent modulators.

Compounds were shown to act as state-dependent modulators of Nav1.3, Nav1.4 and Nav1.7 with IC50 values in the lower micromolar range for the open-inactivated state of the channels.

However, Catholic Charities also acted as a state contractor and received state and federal money.

Throughout the 1970s and '80s the PLO, dominated by Fatah, acted as a state in the making, launching frequent military attacks on Israel.

After Leopold stepped down, Baudouin acted as head of state from Aug. 11, 1950, until July 16 , 1951 and the next day he became the fifth king of the Belgians.

Of course, you have Fianna Fáil ministers who have also acted as if the state is something to be treated with contempt".