Sentence examples for states permission from inspiring English sources

Federal officials require states' permission to start the program, and states can refuse.

But the federal government can give states permission to cover pregnant women, and the Clinton administration granted such waivers to New Jersey and Rhode Island on Jan . 18

The conference, which supposedly was going to modernize some ancient regulations, instead offered a treaty that in the eyes of some critics would have given repressive states permission to crack down on dissent.

Under the new program, the federal Department of Education will give up to 10 states permission to focus reform efforts on schools that are drastically underperforming and intervene less forcefully in schools that are raising the test scores of most students but struggling with one group, like the disabled, for instance.

The NGO points to the national planning policy framework which states: "Permission should not be given for the extraction of coal unless the proposal is environmentally acceptable, or can be made so by planning conditions or obligations; or if not, it provides national, local or community benefits which clearly outweigh the likely impacts to justify the grant of planning permission".

Indeed, on Tuesday, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, tacitly acknowledging the problem, announced a program to give up to 10 states permission to focus their remedies mostly on schools that are drastically underperforming as a whole rather than those that are struggling with one group of students, like the learning disabled.

Earlier this week, West Virginia joined three other states -- Connecticut, Michigan and Rhode Island -- in prohibiting any rate increases without state permission.

Officials said it had become harder to get state permission to build hotels.

It also would allow cities and counties to make changes to their growth plans without state permission.

New State Ice concerned an ice maker who violated Oklahoma's Ice Act by operating without state permission.

The Bloomberg administration wants state permission to use 23 acres of parkland for an underground water filtration plant.