Sentence examples for sprawling states from inspiring English sources

The question is whether he can win the sprawling states that embody them too.

Mr Rüttgers sees himself as a Landesvater, a kindly patriarch of his sprawling state of 18m.

A staggering 1,719 vendors are paid to supply New York's sprawling state government with pens, paper and paper clips.

Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park This sprawling state park in northern Westchester also offers boating opportunities, with a lot more elbow room.

Zhongyuan Petroleum is one of 60 subsidiaries of the Sinopec Group, a sprawling state empire formed in 1983.

The sprawling state apparatus in China is as labyrinthine as one would expect for a country of 1.3 billion people.

On a recent blazingly hot Saturday, a convoy of two armored cars and an ambulance barreled into the sandy grounds of the sprawling state hospital, sirens wailing.

Governor McGreevey and a committee of business executives and politicians were eager to transform the sprawling state university and two other institutions into one nationally prominent research university.

A national snapshot of last year's results revealed that students were more engaged in the learning process at smaller colleges than at sprawling state universities.

Analysts cautioned, however, that potentially tough changes would also be needed — including, for example, allowing more competition in areas dominated by sprawling state-owned enterprises, and weaning the economy off its reliance on state-driven investment and exports.

Despite coming to power through the freest elections in Egyptian history, Mr. Morsi was unable to extend his authority over the sprawling state apparatus, and his allies complained that what they called the "deep state" was undermining their efforts at governing.