Sentence examples for retaining state from inspiring English sources

And in 1996, he worked a compromise, retaining state money for use for family planning in general but agreeing that none would be used for abortions or abortion counseling.

He was trying to consolidate his legacy among Kenya's various ethnic groups while retaining state control of higher education.

Meanwhile, the Boxer-Markey bill would specifically retain state authority, allowing states to pass laws that are stricter than the federal laws.

Ricardo Lara, a Democratic senator from Long Beach who sponsored the bill, said the organisation needed to go further in order to retain state support.

The voting machines, some of which are 50 years old, are the only approved method now, and would retain state approval.

Bill Walker, a spokesman for the the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, said a judge would be asked to decide whether to return the children to their mother, retain state custody or send them to live with their mother under state scrutiny.

One lawmaker, Assemblywoman Gloria Davis of the Bronx, admitted in a Manhattan court that she accepted transportation from the company in the late 1990's in return for helping it retain state contracts.

The state's goal was to curb energy costs, improve air quality, ensure that needed services would still be available (for instance, garbage collection) and help to recruit and retain state employees.

The aim was to retain state government's control over its funds.

However, state of enrollment was associated with cardiovascular mortality and was moderately correlated with ambient PM2.5; therefore, we retained state of enrollment as a possible confounder in subsequent models despite potential underestimation of PM2.5 effects.

Kiev would retain state-wide functions like defence, foreign policy and the legal system - in other words, central government would be much diminished.