Sentence examples for embattled state from inspiring English sources

[LiveScience] The Arizona Legislature approves a bill that would prevent state park revenue from being diverted to other budgetary uses; the Illinois House passes a measure that would require embattled state parks to charge admission fees for the first time ever.

On the CBS Evening News last night, John Roberts reported that Bush's solution to his current, highly embattled state is to "sharpen his focus and ramp up his sales pitch in the coming weeks, telling Americans why it's important to stay the course in Iraq, pressuring Congress to get some of his agenda passed by the August recess.

He raised at least $2.5 million more than he needed to defeat the surmountable Waterbury Mayor Phil Giordano, and if he had any thoughts of using the overage to help embattled state candidates, these seem not to have been translated into action.

In Nevada, the Senate race has become almost a metaphor for the embattled state.

The senate last week confirmed his appointment by Governor Whitman as the new chief of the embattled state parole board.

Those factors include shifting demographics, an embattled state economy and increased violence in Mexico, as well as the perception that the federal government has failed to act.

But perhaps the most important deal was symbolic: as much as $7 billion in credit for Brazil's embattled state-run oil company, Petrobras, struggling from the fallout of a sleaze scandal.

The embattled state-backed operator and owner of 20,000 miles of track and 18 of the busiest stations, including Liverpool Lime Street, London Victoria, and Glasgow Central, has drafted in experts from IDDAS to sit in on board meetings on an annual basis.

It needs the support of its allies, particularly embattled states like Pakistan, to fight the war on terror.

The poor will go without health care in a state that practically invented the health care safety net and as some financially embattled states seek to expand coverage for children.

But the move has unleashed a torrent of telephone calls and e-mail messages to state lawmakers, newspapers and the Department of Transportation deploring the lost toilets — one of the scores of small indignities among larger hardships that residents of embattled states face as governments scramble to shore up their finances.