Sentence examples for state confronted from inspiring English sources

Last summer, the state confronted what engineers called "advanced deterioration" of the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge, which carries the highway from Nags Head to the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, on the north end of Hatteras Island.

The Indonesian state confronted IPOP, which was established by leading palm oil companies and facilitated by the Indonesian Chamber of Trade and Industry (KADIN).

This was incompatible with Bosniaks' aspirations of establishing a unitary state confronted by demands to partition the country.

Like it or not, big questions about the role, shape and size of the state confront Labour.

LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown has seen this before: a budget in crisis, a Legislature divided, a state confronting the possibility that its glory days are behind it.

With the state confronting a projected $10 billion deficit for next year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has little choice but to cut back the program.

"You Say You Want a Constitution," by Steven V. Mazie (Op-Ed, March 30), identifies some difficult issues of the identity of the Jewish state confronting Israel's constitution drafters.

They are facing hard decisions about water use as the state confronts the drought's long-term effects on farms and forests, including dwindling crops, a growing threat of devastating wildfires and a worrisome infestation of tree-killing beetles.

The agreement will help the city and state confront a vast array of challenges over the next year, ranging from contract negotiations with other state and municipal unions, a statewide attempt to contain health care costs and the painful chore of closing huge state and city budget gaps in tandem.

The moonlit road home from the church is so long as to seem never-ending, the backyard wall is high as high, and when the twin forces of church and state confront Angela, the priest and the policeman are so tall that the tops of their heads are cut off the page.

He regards recognition as the central ideological mechanism by which the state confronts its citizens with the choice between obedience and the loss of social existence (Althusser 1970, 174 176).