Sentence examples for state clerks from inspiring English sources

Women, working as state clerks, teachers and nurses, dominate the organized public sector.

That is why, after the hardest week in recent Rhode Island history, more than 1,000 of its residents -- from state clerks to United States senators -- crossed into Massachusetts tonight, seeking hugs, backslaps and even a few laughs.

Sean Hudson, a spokesman for the state clerks' association, said he was unaware of any clerk that didn't plan to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples seeking them, although several have said they won't do any more weddings for anyone.

A majority of those clerks voted for a resolution condemning the policy during a hastily called meeting of the state clerks' association last month, and some have said they would refuse to enforce the policy, which is scheduled to take effect late next year.

After the Supreme Court ruled in June that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) -- who was a losing party in that case -- ordered state clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to all couples without regard to sexual orientation.

Mr. Howard, an editor at Bicycling magazine, explains that, in 1789, a state clerk tucked the document into the files, where it stayed until a Union soldier looted the place in 1865.

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As Elizabeth Cooper Allen, an adoptee has said, "It would be far better to hear that I can't have my original birth certificate from the woman who gave birth to me, rather than from a state clerk.

Get a subpoena duces tecum request form from your state clerk of court.

He was stated clerk, or executive director, of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and its successor group, the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., from 1951 to 1966.

"This was a church that had really been isolated," said Harriet Sandmeier, stated clerk of the denomination's local governing body.