Sentence examples for voluntary states from inspiring English sources

Federal education laws are voluntary — states that don't want to follow the regulations need only agree not to accept federal money for schools.

Having enrolled in a voluntary state-run pension scheme, Stephen Okikiola was always luckier than most.

In both states, without either voluntary state-run health insurance exchanges or proposed Medicaid expansion, the Affordable Care Act has failed to make enough of an impact.

So I hereby invent the category myself, and declare its first winner to be Christopher Rowe for his story "The Voluntary State," a surreal work collected in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2006 (ROC, paper, $15.95) anthology.

But a generation born since the war has vowed not to be controlled or terrorized by this ideology or by the voluntary, state-protected militias that continue to try to control the streets.

To make the example cleaner, we can stipulate that the money for the subsidy is raised by a voluntary state-run lottery.

Thirty-three oft of 83 Michigan counties have adopted voluntary state standards for joint investigations by agencies.

At 23, I chose to freeze, spending months in a voluntary state of isolation—I wrote about this before.

Eagle Rock saw a flood massage parlor openings a few years ago after a 2009 state law allowed for voluntary state certification for massage therapists.

This voluntary state-based program works to measure trends in adult blood lead levels and to minimize lead exposure.

Therefore, new diagnoses of HIV infection, reported into a registry, varies despite of their mandatory or voluntary state.