Sentence examples for virginia from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A state of the United States of America. Capital: Richmond. Largest city: Virginia Beach.
Closer to home, two small Virginia colleges have closed since 2013: St Paul's College in Lawrenceville and Virginia Intermont College.
Hill's attorney, Brian Kammer, issued a statement after the stay: "All the doctors who have examined Mr Hill are unanimous in their diagnosis of mental retardation, so there is no question that his execution would have been in violation of the US supreme court's 2002 ruling in Atkins v Virginia.
At the end of April, Heitkamp introduced bipartisan legislation in the Senate to re-write the rule, with the backing of other Democratic senators, including Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, which produces around 15% of America's fossil fuel energy, according to the region's department of commerce.
Quinnipiac has Obama in the lead 51-46 in Virginia and Marist has Romney in the lead 48-47, with a three-point gain from last week.
The supreme court is heavily entwined in the Hill case because it was the court's own 2002 ruling, Atkins v Virginia, that banned the death sentence for "mentally retarded" prisoners.
For example, if you went to the University of West Virginia, you could do economics and Asian studies, with elective classes in maths, philosophy, history and French.
"I think we got our message across, and people listened," said Isaiah Beaman, 21, a Walmart worker in Landover, Maryland, who travelled to Alexandria in Virginia to join about 200 protesters there.
A pioneering modernist writer, Mansfield was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand before moving to Britain, where she became friends with DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Bill Clinton warned that the unusual timing of New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections during the "off year" that follows national elections was the biggest danger for Democrats facing a radicalised Republican base.
We have now forgotten that in the summer of 1854, when Anthony Burns – who had run away from slavery in Richmond, Virginia – was returned to slavery by a state judge acting as a federal commissioner under the second fugitive slave act, Boston itself had to be placed under martial law for three whole days.
The other universities from both the US and France, include: Georgetown University, Cornell University, HEC Paris, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Virginia Commonwealth University and Texas A&M University.
