Sentence examples for idea of states from inspiring English sources

Reacting against the extreme nationalism predominant during the Civil War and in the early Reconstruction years, the Waite court did much to rehabilitate the idea of states' rights.

At home, polls show that a majority of Americans support the law, or at least the idea of states more rigorously enforcing immigration laws.

Automakers oppose the measure because it would be expensive and because they do not like the idea of states setting their own rules.

South Australian premier, Jay Weatherill, who himself proposed the idea of states getting a fixed share of federal income tax, said he thought the idea of going a step further and giving each state the power to increase or decrease their tax rate was "impractical".

But the idea of states asserting their authority over national firms is a nightmare scenario to some on Wall Street.

The idea of states' rights has a dark pedigree: it was the rallying cry of Southern politicians clamoring against "tyrannical" federal efforts to end Jim Crow.

"I'm not somebody who goes to the idea of state takeovers of anything lightly," Mr. Christie said.

The acerbic Austrian writer, who died in 1989, musters moral outrage against the idea of state-sanctioned art.

Despite Hinchingbrooke's record in the NHS, many staff were wedded to the idea of state control.

It was the idea of State Superintendent James E. Allen, and its essence is to delegate some of the powers of the Board of Education to the individual communities.

The loans are the idea of state housing finance agencies, or H.F.A.'s, quasi-government entities created to help moderate-income people buy their first homes.