Sentence examples for have been state from inspiring English sources

Not even an electronic readout that would have been state of the art in 1981.

He presents a despairing picture of conditions in the Susquehanna Valley without noting that there have been state investigations of unsafe practices there.

The president also addressed what he called the "steady ramping up" of threats from cyberattacks, saying that some of them have been "state sponsored".

The outcome might have been state conservatorship or hospitalization and treatment, in which case perhaps the tragedy could have been averted.

Under its former coach, Gary Barber, Middle Township's girls teams have been state public school powers on and off through the 1980's and 1990's.

"From my standpoint he could have been state chairman for life," Mr. Pataki said in Washington, where he was attending a conference of governors.

Mattel's monitoring of its suppliers is said to have been state-of-the-art, but that did not save it from costly embarrassment in China.

The universities on both sides of the Atlantic have tried to balance things up (indeed, some rich British children are whisked out of private schools in their final years so they appear to have been state-educated).

In every society in which there have been state-led efforts to bring about equality of outcome, there has been the abandonment of free speech, the imprisonment of dissidents and sometimes state-sanctioned torture and mass executions.

At The Times, such rules have been stated and vigorously enforced for many years.

In the case of Iran, most of the banks have been state-owned up to a few years ago, and the government has prevented them from insolvency.