Sentence examples for state owed from inspiring English sources

Rather than the right of a monarch to rule, Rousseau proposed that the state owed its authority to the general will of the governed.

A blogger or two pointed out that the lopped-off, naked mountains in the south of his state owed much to Mr Byrd's votes for uninhibited mining.

By some historians' estimates, the state owed half its annual revenue to debt payments, and others say the payments were even higher.

The infant state owed its conception to centralizing and modernizing forces generated by mineral discoveries, and its character was shaped by eight years of "reconstruction" between 1902 and 1910.

Several observers said that the commission's ideas came at a time when the state owed roughly $5 billion in aid to poor school districts, under a 2007 agreement that followed a lawsuit and a Court of Appeals ruling.

In a speech on Thursday that his staff had widely advertised as "important," Mr. Pataki explained how he "disagreed" with a court ruling that said the state owed public school students only an eighth-grade education.

The state owes $14.1 billion on bonded projects, Mr. Genuario said.

They are the people to whom the state owes the most protection and support.

"The state owes something to the victims," said Governor Perdue, who campaigned on the issue.

"Justice is a debt the state owes the citizen," the judge said.

"Or else maybe he would have gotten the $23 billion the state owes us for education.