Sentence examples for sore state from inspiring English sources

"I don't believe Alaska is a racist state, but I have seen this governor pick at the scab of racism until it's a festering sore," State Senator Pete Kelly, Republican of Fairbanks, said.

In January 1863, he confided that "Olmsted is in an unhappy, sick, sore mental state..

It makes you heart-sore for the state of democracy.

And she cares about education, a sore spot for the state.

Happily, unlike Lieberman, Specter will be constrained by his state's sore loser laws which ban him from running in the general election.

Many of Manchin's attacks centered on Morrisey's ties to the pharmaceutical industry, a sore spot in a state ravaged by the opioid crisis.

The fact that he was sent by American officials to Syria for interrogation without Ottawa's explicit permission has become a sore point in United States-Canadian relations, although officials from both countries have said that he was seized based on information gathered and supplied by Canadian security officials.

Some states have "sore loser" rules which bar any primary candidate who doesn't win their party's nomination from appearing on the general election ballot, such as Virginia.

Robinson, who sat out Sunday's victory over Golden State with a sore back, scored 6 straight points late in the third quarter to put the Spurs ahead by 16.

The relationship between religion and the state, ever the sore spot of Turkish identity, is one of the most explosive issues of the debate on the new constitution that Mr. Erdogan has pledged to give the country in the new legislative term that opens Saturday.

Last week he cancelled a summit with 11 other leaders of former Soviet states, claiming a sore throat.