Sentence examples for playing states from inspiring English sources

"What's happening here is companies are playing states off one another to get money," said Jon Shure, president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a nonprofit research group.

Like professional sports teams, companies have increasingly turned their backs on the places where they first put down roots and are playing states -- or even countries -- against each other in the hunt for incentives.

Rather than encourage the practice, the secretary of commerce should facilitate cooperation among the states -- via federal legislation or an interstate compact -- to reduce corporations' abilities to extract subsidies by playing states and their residents off of each other, as states sprint past one another, into ever deeper deficits.

For example, "It's 2 00 a.m. and I hear your stereo playing" states an observed fact, while "It's way too late to be making such an awful racket" makes an evaluation.

His family developed a traveling act around him, playing state fairs and rural talent shows.

When the buffer has enough data, the playback starts, thus changing to playing state.

"I'm going to the game on Wednesday and I hope he's playing," stated Pearce.

Following training, we compared the performance of subjects when playing state-of-the-art agents from the literature.

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He plays state fairs, minor-league ballparks and Las Vegas ballrooms.

We'd love to play State of Origin but probably will never get a chance to do so.