Sentence examples for cornerstone of the state from inspiring English sources

Others warn that the bill could impose burdensome regulations on health care providers and damage a cornerstone of the state's economy.

However, "Iowa nice" has caused the city of Des Moines, and the state of Iowa, to slow progressive ideals that were once the cornerstone of the state.

The API is considered the "cornerstone" of the state's high-stakes student accountability system that determines whether a school meets federal Adequate Yearly Progress requirements under the No Child Left Behind law.

By that point, Schwarzenegger and legislative allies had made the tailpipe emissions law -- which makes cars more fuel efficient and cleaner all around -- a cornerstone of the state's landmark climate change program, signed into law in 2006 in another spectacular San Francisco ceremony, this time on Treasure Island with then British Prime Minister Tony Blair beaming into the festivities.

New Californian cuisine As California is the garden of America, it's no surprise that local and organic are cornerstones of the state's cuisine.

The sick-enough-for-marijuana pattern extends in a broad band from Nederland west through an archipelago of communities that were equally tinctured by tie-dye a generation ago and are now cornerstones of the state's resort and tourism industry.

Many oldies would feel aggrieved; the universal state pension has long been seen as a cornerstone of the welfare state.

If the Commonwealth graves honor individual sacrifice, the Turkish monument looks as though its architects took literally an instruction to design a cornerstone of the Turkish state.

Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is the cornerstone of the current state-of-the-art management of atrial fibrillation (AF).

It is at this point that the State Department is supposed to have initiated an intra-departmental inquiry as to just who it was who had made the commitment under which the cornerstone of the State Department's policy toward Afghanistan seemed to be that President Harding ought to shake hands with Princess Fatima.

It was a landmark in the abolition of the workhouse; a cornerstone of the future welfare state.