Sentence examples for state happen from inspiring English sources

"In my book, Stalinism and a police state happen when ministers direct and interfere with specific investigations that the police are carrying out," she said.

Many indexicals seemed to be sensitive to highly variant aspects of the context, such as what is salient or what the speaker's mental state happen to be.

If all those who live together as legally recognized citizens of a constituted democratic state happen to distinguish between friend and enemy in exactly the same way, the equal participation of all citizens in the political process and the electoral appointment of officials would indeed be a requirement of democratic political justice.

Most of these guys were on the field that day in Nebraska and felt the pain of letting one of the biggest comebacks in the history of Ohio State happen to them.

Most people have never been to a caucus, even if their state happens to have them.

The great hoarding of power at the centre of the British state happened silently, and over a generation.

Khamis's problem, like that of many Palestinians – and, for that matter, many Israelis – is precisely that he doesn't see a Palestinian state happening.

Michigan State happened to be where Devin Thomas, Walker's best friend and teammate in junior college, went before joining the Washington Redskins this season.

And this tiny state happens to be the geographical center of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the oldest religious institutions in the world and the largest denomination of the Christian faith, with more than 1.25 billion members worldwide.

Kafka was sick in bed when the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire and the founding of the Czechoslovak state happened in the great square — the Altstädter Ring — directly outside the window of his family's apartment.

The attack on the school in Chibok, a remote part of Borno state, happened late on Monday.