The EU has long been a federal system in many crucial respects.
Technically, the current transitional government is a federal system that is supposed to share power with various regions, but it is unclear, even to the people in the government, what exactly that means.
A real "education president" would be one who admits that our education crisis cuts across state lines, and that the solution is a federal system based on national standards and paid for with federal dollars.
Acid rain is a by-product of electricity production, and the EU is a federal system characterized by decentralized leadership; that is, regional governments are leaders and the center is a common follower.
Because H-2A is a federal system and marijuana remains illegal under federal law, foreign labor remains off-limits for weed growers.
As President Obama acknowledged in his own carbon reduction plan announced recently, the U.S. is a federal system with very large states that can determine their own environmental policies.
The Shiites will be unhappy that, now when their majority political status will finally be realized, power and resources are going to be diffused throughout a federal system and constraints are going to be placed on the power of the majority.
The Obama administration is proposing a federal system of cyberbreach reporting with a 30-day window.
If you're in a federal system that allows registration at state and national levels, you'll need to check the relevant registers.
"It's mind-boggling that there were hundreds of attorneys advising their clients that it was O.K. to do this, only to be bushwhacked by a federal system that most people in California are not even paying attention to," said William J. Portanova, a former federal drug prosecutor and a lawyer for one of Mr. Davies's co-defendants.
