Sentence examples for and the first state from inspiring English sources

The prospect has inspired a flurry of lawsuits against spammers by Internet service providers and the first state law, in Virginia, that makes sending misleading messages a felony.

Among the plates he wrote were "Land of Lincoln" for Illinois, "Great Lake State" for Michigan, and "The First State" for Delaware.

California Led the Way Although law enforcement experts say that the large number of inmates being returned to prisons is a nationwide phenomenon, nowhere is it more striking than in California, the state with the largest prison population and the first state to abolish flexible sentences, which historically led to early release for good behavior.

Profile Founded in 1839, the University of Missouri, Columbia was the first public university west of the Mississippi River and the first state university in Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase territory.

We were the first state in the country to pass a civil union law and the first state to pass gay marriage legislation without a court order.

Success in Iowa is crucial in presidential politics, as it both a swing state and the first state to hold a caucus or primary.

San Francisco was the first city and Connecticut the first state to pass paid sick days legislation.

Then in March 1776 they skirmished with the British and became the first state to declare independence.

In 2010, New York passed the "Vacating Convictions Law," and was the first state to take such groundbreaking action.

In addition, Arizona has had a traditionally strong tobacco control program and was the first state to establish public smoking bans, in 1972.

Tom Price became the first TCC judge ever and the first state-wide Republican judge anywhere to publ​icly oppose the death penalty from the bench.