Sentence examples for state autonomy from inspiring English sources

The conflicts have highlighted the tensions between environmental protection and economic development, and between state autonomy and federal oversight.

With $2m they hit airwaves casting the debate in terms of civil rights, jobs, fiscal gain (claiming $60m in savings and revenue) and state autonomy.

Mr. Perry's aides and supporters defend the governor's record, praising him for taking bold stands to strengthen state autonomy and fight federal overregulation.

This has to do not just with voting rights but also with evolving, and legitimately debatable, ideas of local and state autonomy.

Democratic Lincoln is the president of civil rights (freeing the slaves), federal power over state autonomy (saving the Union), government stimulus packages (those land grant colleges and railroads), and working-class pride (born in a log cabin).

By departing from his deeply held belief in state autonomy to side with the Republican Party in a redistricting case, Chief Justice Rehnquist has once again invited the public to question this court's motives.

The latter flag is the rallying point of the Hong Kong City-State Autonomy Movement, which has a Facebook page and a Web site.

The Hong Kong City-State Autonomy Movement called on legislators to veto the motion, citing the alleged misuse of the funds that Hong Kong sent to Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake, when money that was intended for relief reportedly ended up paying for government banquets.

That stance is odd, given that the two great conservative rallying cries today are opposition to "activist" judges and support for "federalism," or a greater respect for states' autonomy.

A spokeswoman for the Californian computing group said: "As HP has consistently stated, Autonomy senior management participated in deals with value-added resellers designed either to improperly accelerate revenue recognition or to manufacture revenue where none existed, all with the end goal of making Autonomy appear to be growing at a faster rate than was actually the case".

Finally, if a state decided to abrogate the compact at the last minute and instruct its electors to cast their votes for the winner of the state rather than for the winner of the national popular vote, its action might be sustained by the courts because the Constitution gives the states autonomy to decide the manner of choosing and instructing its electors.