Sentence examples for direction of a state from inspiring English sources

The fads presented to California teachers have increasingly been at the direction of a state political bureaucracy that changes its preferences with the wind.

Widespread criticism of the direction of a state run for the past eight years by Democrats and an increasingly GOP-friendly electorate have propelled McDonnell, who runs competitively even in the Democratic strongholds of Northern Virginia.

1. Treatment of Terri Schiavo Vote on legislation to allow a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, allowing her parents to seek to restore a feeding tube that had been removed from her at the direction of a state judge; President Bush quickly signed it at the White House.

Egyptians are searching for signs of clarity in such declarations, hoping to discern the direction of a state led by a secretive military council brought to power by a revolution based on demands for democracy, rule of law and an end to corruption.

But then there is the matter of whether a governor can ever credibly claim responsibility for job growth when so many factors other than public policy determine the direction of a state's economy.

In 2013 the city of Flint, under the direction of a state-appointed official, decided to draw its municipal water supply from the nearby Flint River instead of buy water from the city of Detroit.

When paired with smart spending, Warren's views on tax policy seem much more likely to help deter us from heading in the direction of a failed state than they are to promote a welfare state.

We may have been heading in the direction of a police state, these observers argue, but at least it was an inefficient police state.

The first order of business of the revolutionaries therefore was to strive for the reform of the confederal state, with its discrimination of the Generality Lands, and of particular minorities (Catholics, Jews), in the direction of a unitary state, in which the minorities would be emancipated, and the old entrenched interests superseded by a more democratic political order.

This means that a large number of poor voters, who pay little tax but benefit from government welfare spending, help to push the parties in the direction of a bigger state.

The proposals, calling for a mobile antimissile system that could be deployed rapidly and aimed in the direction of a threatening state, are another step in a diplomatic campaign to convince both Europe and the United States that the missile threat from so-called rogue states can be met through cooperative and limited defensive efforts.