Sentence examples for granted states from inspiring English sources

"This fight is far from over," said Ms. Brewer, whose lawyers had argued that Congress granted states the power to enforce immigration law particularly when, in their view, the federal government fell short.

While the public's attention focuses most often on the end of prohibition, it is important to note that the Twenty-first Amendment also granted states greater leeway in regulating alcohol within and across their borders.

"And if the money were lent rather than just granted, states would I think spend it wisely, and the states that didn't need it at all wouldn't take any".

Two years later, legislators granted states a $3.9 billion fund to mix with local assets to replace the nation's old punch-card and lever voting machines.

But the Supreme Court ruling that upheld Obamacare last year also granted states the right to opt out of the expansion.

While it is fair to say that the Supreme Court's ruling in the Kelo case granted states and their municipal governments even broader powers of condemnation authority to effect the removal of blighting conditions and/or improve economic conditions, more than ten years later the holding has been largely overshadowed by how the vast majority of states responded to it.

India legislated the Wildlife Protection Act in 1972, a law that granted state protection to wildlife.

Work began in 2011, and in October Tianfu was granted state-level new area status, bringing substantial government support.

Hundreds of lawyers in New York have been illegally granted state pension benefits, according to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.

It would also prevent officials from taking jobs with companies they once regulated or granted state contracts of more than $25,000 for a year after they leave office.

It thus does not grant states additional powers, nor does it alter the relationship that exists between the federal government and the states.