Not surprisingly, the birth control advocates cite the California law as a model.
Nicholas D. Kristof demonstrates the importance of enacting legislation across the country legalizing physician-assisted dying, using Oregon's law as a model.
At a debate last week in Arizona, Mr. Romney praised that state's tough, controversial border control law as "a model" for the nation.
He praised Minnesota's charter school law as a model for other states to emulate, saying it held charter schools accountable while giving them the flexibility to serve students from many different backgrounds and with many different learning styles.
In describing Massachusetts' health care law as "a model for the nation, state by state," aides noted, he was reaffirming his position that states, and not the federal government, should make such decisions individually.
The decision, by the Constitutional Council, which reviews legislation approved by Parliament before it goes into effect, is a major setback for the music and movie industries, which had praised the French law as a model solution to the problem of illegal file-sharing.
Republican officials in the state government said the decision "by three partisan Democrats ignores legal precedent, ignores the fact that other federal courts have used North Carolina's law as a model and ignores the fact that a majority of other states have similar protections in place".
Shelley, on the other hand, having established her husband's posthumous reputation with her discreetly edited collection of his poems, was scrubbed up for posterity (largely at the hands of her respectable daughter-in-law) as a model Victorian literary lady.
The memo being passed around by Wasserman Schultz staffers describes the Florida state law as a "model" for consumer laws on payday loans, and says the CFPB should "adjust their payday lending rules to take into account actions Florida has already taken".
