Sentence examples for forward-looking states from inspiring English sources

Fortunately, many forward-looking states have already begun to reform these unjust and cost-prohibitive penalties.

North Carolina's reputation as one of the most forward-looking states in the South suffered another blow this week.

Surely you value the image of North Carolina as a forward-looking state, filled with well-educated people and governed in a pragmatic, business-oriented way.

The forward-looking declaration commits member states to actions – including in conflict and post-conflict situations – that have never previously been so explicitly articulated in international documents.

While the recommendations of most government commissions are shelved to gather dust, before she left office as secretary of state, the forward-looking Clinton, prioritizing the nation's security at the expense of any political hit she might take, began the process of implementing all of the ARB's 29 recommendations and took disciplinary action against several officials at State.

Rex Duncan, a member of the Oklahoma State Legislature who elected to leave the legislature in order to run (successfully) for District Attorney in Osage and Pawnee Counties in Oklahoma, came up with a creative solution to this problem that, like the anti-immigration statute enacted in Arizona, is almost certain to be copied in forward looking states around the country.

But those same pantywaists can't be easily dismissed anymore, having nurtured the forward-looking business class the state needs to stay financially robust.

Backward-looking causal relations pertain to what actually, potentially, or typically causes the state in question; forward-looking causal relations pertain to what effects the state in question actually, potentially, or typically has.

They've started the new era in an appropriately forward-looking way by representing the state's creative ferment in the present.

But many states are more forward-looking.

Oddly, the corruption-tainted state of Illinois has been unusually forward-looking.