Sentence examples for state declines from inspiring English sources

What happens, for example, if a Member State declines to act on Council recommendations?

If a state declines, the federal government imposes requirements directly on polluters, without commandeering state institutions.

If any state declines to participate in the expansion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could strip that state of 100% of its Medicaid dollars.

If a state declines to set up an exchange, the Act directs Health and Human Services to establish a federal exchange to serve that state's citizens.

When even legal recourse of seeking justice is made impossible, then the citizen's trust on the state declines and he may adopt a method that can have a detrimental effect on state itself.

Proposition 42 amends the state Constitution to, in effect, prevent lawmakers from gutting guarantees that local governmental meetings will be open and records will be available to the public, even if the state declines to reimburse them for such costs.

Ohio State declined to comment.

Could wildcat currencies start off a spiral of state decline?

The state attorney general's office, which defended the state, declined to comment.

David Axelrod, the preëminent strategist in the state, declined to work for Blagojevich.

Other commentators questioned whether the ascendance of global cities implies state decline along zero-sum lines.