Sentence examples for keep his state from inspiring English sources

Mr. Waltz, who voted against a bill that would have restored $150 million in state education financing, is running to keep his State Senate seat against Representative Mary Ann Sullivan, who was the only Democrat in the House to champion an education bill that tied teacher pay and promotions to performance.

Not to overdo it — this is the guy who, besides lying to his staff, tried to keep his state from getting stimulus money and brought live and, one imagines, squealing piglets to the floor of the state legislature to make a point about pork (the spending, not eating kind).

Astonishingly, the garrulous Liverpudlian managed to keep his state of near collapse from the media industry and most of the staff, despite the fact that problems arose almost as soon as Mulville and his business partner - and now ex-wife - Denise O'Donoghue sold 45% of Hat Trick for £23m.

Indiana's Mitch Daniels, who has helped keep his state's unemployment rate lower than its neighbours', flicked away his challenger.

Harrison had helped secure Roosevelt's nomination at the 1932 Democratic National Convention by convincing Mississippi Governor Martin Sennet Conner to keep his state's delegation loyal to Roosevelt, but Roosevelt preferred Barkley because of his support of the New Deal.

But he kept his state job working with the developmentally disabled.

But Mr. Aubrey has kept his state job as an agricultural specialist, and she has leveraged her farm expertise into consulting work and books, including "Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business".

And, he had this to Tweet about Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican: "Haley Barbour is the perfect GOP icon: A grotesquely fat corporate lobbyist whose gubernatorial rule keeps his state 1 of America's poorest"...

Adam Larson went East for college and stayed, yet he did what he could to keep his home state in his life -- taking his two children back to Big Sky country for horseback riding at a dude ranch, and even carting his family to Yankee Stadium and Camden Yards in Baltimore to cheer his beloved Minnesota Twins.

The Cuban cigars and Champagne that Mr. Claywell says he gave the governor and some of his aides were presented not to land the contracts, so much as to keep his access to state officials open and to expedite payments he believed he was owed, according to Mr. Twardy.

But as he seeks to keep his job as the state's chief fiscal officer — a job state lawmakers handed him in 2007, when he was an assemblyman, after Alan G. Hevesi resigned in a scandal — Mr. DiNapoli has found his relative obscurity to be a central challenge of his campaign.