Sentence examples for state standing from inspiring English sources

Today, Mr. Sarkozy's campaign is built around the "values of national identity," of a protective state standing against the threats of globalization and uncontrolled immigration, Mr. Buisson said.

He thought that in the long run Switzerland had been a democratic state, standing for freedom in self-defense and largely on the Allied side.

It was extraordinary: there was our personal pride and joy at the result, after our court case; and there was our nation state standing up with an absolutely affirming majority of over 60% voting to recognise gay marriages.

He and his lawyers said they were confident the New York tribe and the state, standing shoulder to shoulder, could beat back any legal challenge that the out-of-state Oneidas might mount.

But where Sturgess has really done his homework is with regard to the finances of raising an army in the early modern period, when there was no state standing army.

On August 29, 1934, the day after winning the nomination, he explained the plan: There are a couple of thousand factories in our state standing entirely idle and the rest are working less than half the time.

States standing on their own feet might help clean up India's politics as well as its accounts.

The Order was still not subject to local government, making it everywhere a "state within a state"—its standing army, though it no longer had a well-defined mission, could pass freely through all borders.

While segregated schools are located throughout New York state, the segregation of schools in New York City -- the country's most heterogeneous area -- contributes to the state's standing.

Mr. O'Malley argues that tax rates are just one measure of a state's standing.

If this theory is right, New Jersey has helped the entire state by standing up for its gay residents.