Sentence examples for states competing from inspiring English sources

Most economists are critical of states' competing for jobs by offering ever-larger subsidies and depleting public resources.

The dozen states that have passed laws restricting drones do not fall into conventional red-blue divisions, nor do the score of states competing to be the site of the Federal Aviation Administration's test sites for drones.

But Wisconsin, a swing state in the presidential election, was the biggest winner among states competing for brownfields grants, receiving $10.38 million, which includes the biggest single award, $4 million, for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Boren, a former Democratic senator from Oklahoma, met the president years ago through the elder President Bush, and in recent years the two have sparred over their states' competing college football teams.

Labour has its own problems over Europe, not the least its core vote hostility to those arriving from new EU member states competing for fewer and fewer low-pay jobs, social housing and school places.

A large-scale fusion of information technology and energy technology could have many benefits, but in a world of states competing for energy resources, and using these resources as geopolitical levers, there is no prospect of such a scheme operating at the global level.

— Gedike undertook a ruthless talent search in an academic world where states competed for researchers.

States compete with other states, cities compete with surrounding suburbs, and even small towns have entered the race with the goal of defeating their neighbors.

Government subsidies for film and television productions proliferated in flush times as more than 40 states competed for entertainment work.

Critics say that no one wins when states compete against one another by offering increasingly large tax breaks.

More than 4,000 boys and girls from schools in seven states competed at the meet in Upper Manhattan.