Sentence examples similar to constituting state from inspiring English sources

Only a legally constituted state can declare war on another state.

"These decisions confirm that many local public support measures do not constitute state aid.

Releasing preliminary details of an investigation last month, Brussels suggested deals between the Irish government and Apple "constitute state aid".

The indictments involved war crimes by a legally constituted state and crimes against humanity by individual perpetrators.

He added that Saudi Arabia would argue that its executions were different from killings by Islamic State (Isis), since Saudi Arabia is "a legitimately constituted state operating in a state system".

Mr. Mohamed's lawyers are also pressing for the release of American intelligence reports pertaining to his treatment, contending that they do not constitute state secrets.

Fiat insisted its dealings merely amounted to a clarification of pricing rules and did not constitute state aid, but it was ordered to repay £25.5m.

"I don't know about money because they said they can't do anything which constitutes state aid, so they won't be able to give anybody money per se.

The commissioner for transport matters, Loyola de Palacio, said that although Italy was financing 62percentt of the program, it did not constitute state aid because private investors were also taking part.

In Bowman v. Chicago and North Western Railway Company he declared that a state prohibition of common carriers transporting liquor into the state was unconstitutional because it constituted state regulation of interstate commerce.

East Germany regarded its separation from the rest of Germany as complete, but West Germany considered its eastern neighbour as an illegally constituted state until the 1970s, when the doctrine of "two German states in one German nation" was developed.