Sentence examples for challenging state from inspiring English sources

Nationwide there are more than a dozen states with federal lawsuits challenging state bans on same-sex marriage.

In 2002, two political hopefuls who had failed to get onto the ballot filed a lawsuit challenging state election law.

At his urging, the delegates also adopted a call to complete a double-layer border fence and to end federal lawsuits challenging state enforcement laws like Arizona's.

National gay-rights groups had been challenging state sodomy laws based on supposed harms to gay citizens, who were, litigators claimed, made to look like presumptive criminals.

The Democrat who was challenging State Representative Charles Doc Andersonon, Republican of Waco, tried to make an issue of Mr. Anderson's outstanding federal tax liens.

It calls for a double-walled fence along the Mexican border, and an end to federal lawsuits challenging state immigration laws.

"They may have been starting at a more challenged state of health," he said.

It jails lawyers who challenge state leadership, and nearly everyone tried in criminal court is convicted.

He twice challenged State Senator Roy M. Goodman (1970 and 1976) and ran for the City Council (1980 and 1995).

DAVOS, Switzerland — In certain ways, the very setting of the World Economic Forum reflects the restless, challenged state of human affairs.

In legal terms, the case is about whether federal law "pre-empts," or displaces, the challenged state law.