Sentence examples for states to define from inspiring English sources

The bills leave it to the states to define proficiency and to say how they will measure it.

The Bush administration issued final rules today allowing states to define a fetus as a child eligible for government-subsidized health care under the Children's Health Insurance Program.

The law allows states to define their own achievement standards, but imposes sanctions on schools whose students fail to make adequate progress.

A11 New Rules Grant Fetus Rights The Bush administration issued final rules allowing states to define a fetus as a child eligible for government-subsidized health care.

The brake will apply only in "tight" markets, a term which it is up to the 16 federal states to define.

The autonomy of states to define rural and urban, along with the haphazard nature of many areas newly classified as urban, makes for muddy statistical analysis.

The federal bill permits a state to define its own proficiency standards, provided the same standard applies to all students in a grade.

In the process, the court reaffirmed the right of parents, rather than the state, to define the boundaries of the home.

"It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

It also allows the state to define civil and individual liberties, since these must be surrendered according to an assessment made behind closed doors.

"It is up to parents to determine the way they want to help their children navigate boundaries and how they define right and wrong, it is not for the state to define that for them," he said.