Sentence examples for may take a state from inspiring English sources
The Shockers will have nearly two weeks off before playing V.C.U. in Portland on Thursday, so it may take a while before Wichita State's high-octane offense is back up to speed.
So Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the state, and Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist, may take a prominent place in the state's history books.
In Illinois the governor, Pat Quinn, has made pension reform a priority, but has not yet convinced lawmakers to put a comprehensive deal on his desk.In the end, as with Detroit, it may take a financial crisis for states and cities to face up to the scale of their pension shortfalls.
For our model, the relaxation times are of the order 360 days; we can therefore expect that it may take a year before steady-state lower prevalence rates are realised.
The economic integration of several countries or states may take a variety of forms.
Rogue states may take a "use it or lose it" attitude and feel the need to strike quickly before we hit them (though in the future, governments will know what they risk if they go the way of Iraq and North Korea).
Governors in others states may take a different tack.
Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison are both expected to take charges in the billions (PG&E is expected to take a $4.1 billion charge, and SoCalEdison may take a $2.7 billion charge) because of the state deregulation laws that prohibited them from raising rates even as energy prices rise.
The RSPB stated: "it may take a custodial sentence before people engaged with this activity begin to take the matter seriously".
But state Department of Environmental Conservation investigators may take a dim view of the town's practice of allowing local lobstermen to store several thousand lobster traps and bait buckets around the bottom of the landfill.
