Sentence examples for states revised from inspiring English sources

Sixteen states increased age and service requirements and 11 states revised their COLAs.

Martin Guggenheim, a legal scholar at the New York University Family Defense Clinic, said the states' revised version "does not address the basic flaws" of the pact.

It happened over decades, as new states entering the union adopted new and more democratic constitutions and old states revised theirs to eliminate property requirements for voting and to call for more direct and frequent elections.

Seventeen states revised their plans in the middle of this fiscal year, cutting spending, cancelling or delaying capital projects, issuing more debt and, in four states, raising taxes (by more than 5% in Arizona and New Hampshire).Almost all had to draw on their reserves.

States revised their death-penalty statutes to eliminate arbitrariness, and four years later the Supreme Court upheld Georgia's new and improved death-penalty law in Gregg v. Georgia.

In some cases, though, librarian cuts were only a threat until states revised their budget forecasts or unions negotiated to retain their jobs.

Michigan is one of several states revising mandatory minimum sentences.

A30 Sentencing Rules Revised Michigan is one of several states revising mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.

While New York says it updates its online listings every month, some states revise their Web sites annually.

Those rankings are subject to change, economists cautioned, as other states revise their 1999 economic figures to take account of new data.

Bitter redistricting battles involving bare-knuckle politics are being waged all over the country as states revise their Congressional district maps to take account of population changes reported in the 2000 Census.