Sentence examples for limits state from inspiring English sources

Passed by voters in 1994, the law limits state and local elected officials to eight years in office.

The court has also upheld, within certain limits, state programs to keep violent sex offenders in extended civil confinement after the expiration of their criminal sentences.

Mr. Rowland argued that he has to comply with the state's spending cap, added to the constitution when the state approved its income tax in 1991, which limits state budget increases to 4 to 5percentt a year.

In McDonald v. Chicago (2010), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government.

By the time she leaves office next year due to term limits, state Sen. Fran Pavley will have left a very big mark on California's climate change efforts.

The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process of Law Clause, which limits "State" power, indicates that individuals have rights that precede both state and federal power.

The industry has long used provisions of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as Erisa, to fight off patient lawsuits; the 1974 law limits state-court actions against benefit plans, including claims for wrongful death or injury.

Rules limiting state aid ensure a level playing-field.

But the lesson that people should learn from history is the need to limit state power.

The Constitution does not limit state legislatures' power to choose the method of selecting electors.

Eighty-two percent supported limiting state legislators to five two-year terms.