Sentence examples for practices of state from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the Bill of Rights originally applied only to the federal government and not to the practices of state and local law-enforcement officials.

Mr. Hevesi will oversee the health of the $102 billion state pension fund, the second largest in the nation and one that serves 307,000 retirees, and keep watch over the fiscal practices of state and local governments.

The two major events on his public schedule that day were a bill signing authorizing $800 million in state aid to communities to protect drinking water sources and a new executive order that tightened the accounting practices of state agencies and authorities.

After enduring two years of criticism for the racial profiling practices of state troopers, Gov. Christine Todd Whitman is suddenly struggling with a self-inflicted public relations problem: a picture of the governor herself, grinning as she frisks a black man.

In this article, we examine articulations of mobile citizenship produced through the discursive practices of state agencies, drawing in particular on a study of the contested reconfiguration of outdoor citizenship in Norway.

Both in design and implementation, tree-planting programs have been guided by forest rent distribution practices of state forestry bureaucracies and by corporate accumulation strategies linked to increasingly globalized commodity chains.

As Jasanoff puts it, this means a focus on how 'knowledge making is incorporated into practices of state-making, or of governance more broadly, and in reverse, how practices of governance influence the making and use of knowledge' [ 26].

[ http://www.icj.org/dwn/database/Maastricht%20ETO%20Principles%20-%20FINAL.pdf] See article 38.1 of the Statue of the International Court of Justice which states that the primary sources of international law are international treaties and conventions, customary practices of states accepted as law and general principles of law common to most legal systems.

The practice of state control began after World War II, when European countries wanted to maintain transportation links to their former colonies, and when a national airline conferred prestige.

Remarking on the practice of state companies bulking up on assets, which was common during Mr. Putin's presidency, Mr. Medvedev said, "There could be another stagnation hiding behind the so-called stability".

"He hasn't tried to block Obama's health care law, he hasn't come out in favor of repealing the cap-and-trade program or Roe v. Wade, and he hasn't stopped the practice of state borrowing without voter approval".