Sentence examples for offending states from inspiring English sources
The distortions in the newly offending states are small compared with those that once gripped Punjab and Haryana.
But officials in several of the offending states have suggested that the attention they will win from candidates and the media outweighs any penalties the RNC may choose to impose.All this has left the primary calendar oddly patchy and attenuated.
The court remains a major lever for change in some of the worst offending states, highlighting serious systemic problems and putting pressure on individual states to improve national practices.
When states fail to comply with the equal access mandate, the department's options are either to reject a state Medicaid plan up front or withdraw financing after the fact — both of which punish Medicaid beneficiaries at least as much as they punish the offending states.
The recommendations of the so-called Phillimore Commission included the establishment of a "Conference of Allied States" that would arbitrate disputes and impose sanctions on offending states.
As with a similar high-profile dispute in North Carolina, the Texas case is a "test case" by voting rights plaintiffs ― with full backing by the U.S. Department of Justice ― that aims to show voting discrimination is alive and well and that, short of reviving stalled efforts to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, litigation can be an avenue for reform and oversight for offending states.
If the explanation is unsatisfactory then the commission will start legal proceedings against the offending state.
That would place the Obama administration in the tough political position of having to decide how to respond, including whether to withhold federal money from the offending state.
Mr. Silverman told a citizens meeting in City Hall that Carbide officials had declined to discuss abatement plans for fear of offending state officials.
The judge in the case, Ahmed Aden Farah, said on Tuesday that the woman was sentenced for offending state institutions by claiming she was raped, the AFP news agency reported.
If a state's law enforcement officials exercise their functions in the territory of another state without the latter's consent, that state is entitled to protest and, in appropriate cases, to receive reparation from the offending state.
