Sentence examples for state grounds from inspiring English sources

The logic is sound: if Oklahoma wants to put privately-donated religious monuments on state grounds, it should not be allowed to prefer one faith to another.

The Confederate flag was removed from the Capitol dome on July 1 but was placed on a flagpole on state grounds.

If the House approves it, the bill will go to the desk of Governor Nikki Haley, who has said she would sign it and remove the flag from state grounds.

Noting in a statement that as Florida's governor he moved the flag from the state grounds to a museum "where it belonged", Bush said of South Carolina: "I'm confident they will do the right thing".

The Battle Flag of the Northern Virginia Army, as the controversial banner is also known, once flew above the state house dome, but was moved to its current location still in state grounds in 2000.

Haley's speech, which perhaps not unexpectedly equivocated about a decision that will alienate a swath of the electorate, held that it was possible for the tradition that valorizes the Confederate flag to coexist with the one that recognizes it as a symbol of oppression and slavery — just not on state grounds.

Despite huge dislocations and disruptions, the machinery of the state ground on.

Peace talks between its jailed leader, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Turkish state ground to a halt early this year.

On our own church-state grounds, the Obama Administration is revving up the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, as it is now called, and putting it into the hands of Joshua DuBois, a twenty-six-year-old Pentecostal minister.

Maine has derailed a long-standing school choice program on dubious separation-of-church-and-state grounds.

Their stated grounds omitted wages and working conditions.