Sentence examples for state foster from inspiring English sources

Federal grants to state foster care programs have increased in the past three years, to $4.4 billion in 2001 from $4 billion in 1999, the reports said.

The inconsistent requirements that prevail from state to state foster an atmosphere in which improper and secret purging of voter rolls by politically motivated public servants is possible.

Ms. Perez entered the state foster care system when she was 6 months old, shuttling from one home to another until leaving the system at 16. "My problem has never been about not seeing my situation," Ms. Perez said.

(AP) TRENTON: GROUP CHARGES EVIDENCE TAMPERING -- A children's rights group that is suing a state foster care agency charged yesterday that the agency had altered records and was otherwise "corrupting" the collection of evidence for the lawsuit.

PAGE A16 GIRL CANNOT CONTACT FATHER A day after the children from a polygamist group in West Texas began to return home to their parents from state foster care, a judge barred any contact between a 16-year-old girl and her father, the sect's leader.

Judge Hughes ordered New Jersey officials to make public extensive portions of state foster care files that had already been released under court seal to Children's Rights Inc., a Manhattan-based advocacy group that is suing New Jersey over its foster care system.

As a consequence of the sexual-abuse allegations, Treva Throneberry was removed from her parents' home in 1985 and, through the state foster-care system, placed in the home of Sharon Gentry, a sweet woman with a wide, forgiving face.

But, as the U.S. tried to build a unified and democratic Iraq, the Kurds developed a parallel state, fostering separate democratic institutions, preserving their army, and preparing for the Americans' eventual departure.

The idea that the state fostered audacity and individualism tarnished quickly, as Didion realised the degree to which the landscape around her had been shaped by federal grants and corporate ownership.

The bureaucratic, socialistic state fostered weak growth by stifling entrepreneurship and initiative.

The state fosters this growth to a great extent, as well.