Sentence examples for federal stance from inspiring English sources

The federal stance, which looked from the outside like diplomacy, turned out to be police strategy instead.

Obama acknowledged that the discrepancy between the federal stance and that of Washington and Colorado will need to be addressed.

The federal stance on cannabis remains murky and may now be more so.

The federal stance that marijuana is a dangerous drug on par with heroin and LSD discourages conventional banks from doing business with cannabis-related entrepreneurs.

Despite the conflicted federal stance, legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., according to a recent report from industry analyst ArcView Group.

Many praise the federal stance, saying a credible criminal investigation will ultimately ease rage in Ferguson, a predominantly black community where many protesters fear the local prosecutors are determined to exonerate the officer, who is white.

Independence-seeking Croatia and Slovenia targeted his pro-federal stance and accused him of wasting their taxes on the federal bureaucracy and the JNA, which was engaged in a crackdown on the ethnic-Albanian majority of Serbia's Kosovo province.

While Brown has been edging towards this pro-federal stance for months, having resisted it for much of his political career, his allies in Labour insist this more radical viewpoint is driven by the crisis forced on the UK by the unexpected vote in June to leave the EU.

But now, the quest to sharply shrink government that all the Republican candidates embrace, driven by the fervor of the Tea Party, has brought a sweeping anti-federal government stance to the fore on education, as in many other areas.

Republican officials in the Lone Star State took a hard anti-Washington, anti-federal government stance soon after Obama entered office.

Republican officials in the Lone Star State took a hard anti-Washington, anti-federal government stance soon after Obama entered office.