Sentence examples for prohibited states from inspiring English sources

One result: The Obama administration's $4.3 billion "Race to the Top" grant program, whose rules prohibited states from limiting the number of charter schools.

In 1868, however, the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution, and it prohibited states from denying people "liberty" without "due process".

The Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, prohibited states from denying the vote to people on the basis of race or color.

The Oneidas contend that New York State violated the Federal Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited states from buying land from Indians without federal approval.

Jocelyn A. Guyer, co-executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, said the federal law also prohibited states from adopting enrollment procedures that made it more difficult for people to sign up for Medicaid.

The national health care law has generally prohibited states from tightening eligibility for Medicaid before 2014, when the law envisions expanding the program to cover more low-income people.

Instead, Scott has prohibited state officials from even talking about climate change.

It prohibited state laws that "substantially burden "a person's ability to follow his or her religious belief.

Lobbyist gifts are prohibited, state contractors cannot give to campaigns, ethics training is mandatory for state employees and an ethics board has real power to enforce the laws.

He issued an executive order that prohibited state workers from using state-issued cell phones while driving state-owned or private vehicles.

Rejecting theocracy, Althusius developed a non-sectarian, non-religious contractualist political theory of federations that prohibited state intervention even for purposes of promoting the right faith.