Sentence examples for states- from inspiring English sources

They are seen as fetters on our freedom of action and finances, but doing little to moderate the behaviour of irresponsible states or to assist our wellbeing as a nation".

The ruling effectively enlisted Google into partnership with European states in striking a balance between individual privacy and public discourse interests.

The 2 million people from other EU states who live in Britain will be forced to have resident permits or identity cards if David Cameron is to fulfil his pledge to make rules on access to public services for new migrants the toughest in Europe.

A successful referendum requires a double majority – a national yes vote, and affirmation in the majority of the states.

States and territories will also lose access to reward payments for reducing waiting times under the national partnership agreement on improving public hospital services, saving the federal government $201m over three years.

Abbott said the federal government believed "the states should take more responsibility for their public hospitals and for their public schools and we make no apologies for wanting the states to be grown up, adult governments that take responsibility for the programs that are theirs, for the institutions that they run".

Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA life sentence prisoner and chief researcher on the Belfast project, defended the archive and blamed Boston College for failing to make clear to him and the interviewees that there was a legal treaty that allowed the British state to seize academic material from the United States.

Gay marriage is legal in many parts of the United States and the supreme court will soon rule on whether state-imposed bans are unconstitutional.

Such a development could pose a new threat to the isolated country's neighbours and the United States.

Kazakhstan, a country with a large Russian minority, has strong relations with Russia, China and the United States.

I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States.