Sentence examples for had been state from inspiring English sources

It was kept as a maternity clinic for years afterwards - partly because the Nazi era equipment had been state of the art.

Mr. Janklow's political career -- he had been state attorney general, then governor, and now congressman -- was known to all in the room, Mr. Mitchell said.

And on Thursday the campaign announced it had rehired Craig Schoenfeld, who had been state director in Iowa before the departures, and Katie Koberg, who had been deputy director.

It had been state policy in East Germany, the court said, to require people who wanted to leave for the West to sell or give away their property before they could get permission.

Here, too indeed, throughout the whole northern glacis of the empire it had been state policy to allow entire tribes of barbarians to immigrate and to settle on vacant lands, where they dwelled, farmed, paid taxes, and offered their sons to the army.

"Mubarak's base of support and his main tool and weapon against dissidents and the Egyptian people in general had been state security police over the past 30 years," Hossam Hamalawy said.

His concern had been state-sanctioned death squads, "professional killers".

But the standards have come under attack, primarily from conservatives who call them a nationalization of what had been state-level decision making.

Even the Russian voucher system of the 1990s may contain clues, since it allowed individuals to acquire ownership in what had been state-owned enterprises.

The sales were also hampered by some concern about the government's commitment to free competition in a country where, until a few years ago, many major industries had been state-run.

There had been state-of-the-art technology for printing photos since Edison's day, and the explorer's spirit that would soon put men on the moon was evident in every unfolding of some unsuspected natural wonder.