Sentence examples for compelling states from inspiring English sources

Medicaid could be converted to block grants, compelling states to assume more of the burden of cost control.

Congress last month passed the Death in Custody Reporting Act, compelling states to report to the US justice department the number of people who have died each year while being arrested or in police custody.

The Tenth Amendment restricts the federal government from compelling states to provide all necessary data, which has meant, for example, that 19 states have provided fewer than 100 records of individuals disqualified on mental health grounds since the implementation of NICS in the early 1990s.

Student body diversity is a compelling state interest.

It held that any racial classification must serve a compelling state interest.

The law prohibits the federal government from imposing a "substantial burden" on any religious practice without a "compelling state interest".

Any classification regarding race triggers "strict scrutiny" and must be "necessary" to achieve a "compelling" state interest.

It held that any racial classification must be very narrowly tailored, and it must serve a compelling state interest.

We turn to the question whether the law school's use of race is justified by a compelling state interest.

The question the court must ask is "whether the exclusions are necessary to promote a compelling state interest".

Justice Gans ruled that "severe restrictions on ballot access must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest".