Sentence examples for being state from inspiring English sources

Class: Despite over 90% of the country being state educated, just 55% of Oxbridge students come from state schools.

Since then the restaurant has appeared as local colour in movies – the most recent being State of Play – and has turned into a stop on the Washington tourism trail as well as being a late-night fast food joint.

The measures are being adopted because of the unprecedented level of attacks being suffered from hacking groups in China, Russia and North Korea, which are suspected of being state sponsored.

My mother, who graduated from high school in 1923, was always pleased to tell about her team being state champion runners-up, and her stories of her basketball playing days were delightful.

Reading the fine print, one learned that in reassigning accused priests, bishops had often relied on medical and psychological authorities -- some of them amateurish, it seems, but some with every appearance of being state of the art.

While other candidates evoke the "myth" and the "dream" and the "epic disaster" that is California, Brown is more likely to speak of "the mundane quality of the enterprise," that enterprise being state government.

I would rather medicine was being state-funded to the absolute hilt".

"We're known for being state-of-the-art," Mr. Haversat said.

Being state-owned, it can theoretically call on the government if it needs cash which it does not.

New regulations will make this even more important.As emerging-market banks begin to consider bigger acquisitions, they will find that being state-controlled will be a serious disadvantage.

He called the UK the "ringleader of a backroom campaign" to prevent reforms, and said it was lobbying hard for China to be granted "market economy status", despite 80% of its steel industry being state-owned.