Sentence examples for setting a new state from inspiring English sources

In just one day in June 2008, lightning sparked 1,700 different fires across California, burning a million acres and setting a new state record.

Lawmakers set a new state record for being dilatory in 1994, completing the budget on June 8; the next year they went to June 7.

But after setting up a new state ethics commission in his first year in office – whose effectiveness has been questioned – Mr. Cuomo has not pursued additional changes, although he had said before last week's scandals that he would seek an overhaul of the state's campaign fund-raising laws in this year's legislative session.

So it is setting up a new state investment agency to recycle some of its surpluses.

This is the 2012 theme that began at the State of the Union when he positioned Warren Buffet's secretary to sit next to Michelle Obama, setting a new bar for State of the Union theatrics.

Yet the state is steadily increasing its economic presence and control.Since the referendum, Mr Chávez has set up a new state airline, a phone company, a cement firm and a television news channel to spread his message across Latin America.

If students meet the goals set by a new State Office of Education Accountability, the teachers in their school will get bonus pay.

Nanzhao declined during the late 9th century and fell in 902, when a rebel official killed its last emperor and set up a new state.

Mr Gove also suffered another blow yesterday when a plan to set up a new state boarding school in the West Sussex countryside for inner city children from Stockwell in South London was turned down by the local planning authority.

Provincial officials who helped bring Siribunyasan to the throne subsequently rebelled against him and tried to set up a new state, and he called in Burmese assistance against them (c. 1763).

But there is much to be said for distinguishing, regardless of which theory of the right to secede is adopted, between the right to secede (understood as the right to repudiate the state's authority over a portion of its territory and to attempt to set up a new state there) and the right to recognition as a legitimate state.