Sentence examples for plague the state from inspiring English sources

Even though the state is rich in minerals, the inequitable distribution of wealth and the lack of political will plague the state.

Water shortages continued to plague the state, however, and in 1963, after a long and bitter fight with California, Arizona obtained a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that affirmed Arizona's right to some 2.8 million acre-feet (3.5 billion square metres) of water annually from the Colorado River, as well as the entire flow of the Gila River.

Even the former governor has said he could and should have done more to address the structural problems — a boom-and-bust tax system, a crazy-quilt budgeting process — that continue to plague the state.

But I have witnessed the same knotty issues that play out regularly on the national stage plague the states and local government areas with equal vehemence.

Drug and organized crime violence has plagued the state for years.

Instead, they're lobbing localized attacks in key states on issues plaguing the state insurance exchanges mandated by the law.

The budget cuts that have been plaguing the state have forced the city to hold off filling department vacancies.

Lehr of Churchill Downs says he has been battling a drought that has plagued the state for three years.

The Transportation Trust Fund was created by the State Legislature in 1984 as a solution to the chronic maintenance problems that plagued the state's highways in the 1970's.

Bradley M. Campbell, the commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, said October rainfall had eased the severity of the statewide drought, which has plagued the state for most of the year.

Mr. Blagojevich arrived in office in 2002, portraying himself as a fresh break from the investigations that had plagued the state for years — and most recently from the investigation and eventual conviction of Gov. George Ryan, a Republican whom Mr. Blagojevich succeeded.