Example sentences of "the state ['s] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is agreed that to regulate corporate crime the level of intervention should be organizational ( although individual offenders should be prosecuted in tandem ) and different judicial principles to increase the state 's chances of securing conviction should be instituted , then what ? |
| 2 | When elections were held in Maine to elect the state 's senators in 1978 , Hayes E Gahagan stood for office on a strong right-wing , no nonsense ticket : abortion , women 's rights and similarly liberal measures found little sympathy in his campaign . |
| 3 | Participation in the affairs of State and open discussions of political matters must now be tempered by the need for survival between the testing conditions of competition abroad and what results from the State 's reactions to these conditions , the resentments of the population at home . |
| 4 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 5 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 6 | This was accompanied by corporatist relations between unions , management and the state under which , although conflicts existed , there was consensus on the state 's tasks in managing the economy 's overall balance . |
| 7 | The NRA suffered two defeats earlier this year : in Virginia , which restricted handgun purchases to one a month , and in New Jersey , where gun-rights advocates lost a three-year campaign to repeal the state 's restrictions on selling assault rifles . |
| 8 | The task therefore was to recover greater autonomy at the centre and limit the state 's obligations to those that were essential and/or that it could carry out . |
| 9 | The last traces of independence within the military establishment were removed and the State 's powers of coercion greatly enhanced . |
| 10 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 11 | And the greater the growth of the monopoly sector , the greater the state 's expenditures on social expenses of production ’ . |
| 12 | In some societies coinage was minted solely in accordance with the government 's instructions , in order to meet the state 's requirements for public expenditure on war , army and civil service pay , food , or public buildings . |
| 13 | State medicine 's defeat over the Contagious Diseases Acts effectively heralded the displacement of the medical profession by a new force in sexual politics , with a different conception of the state 's responsibilities in the moral sphere . |
| 14 | Rieber 's view that the purpose of the emancipation was to fill the state 's coffers with the peasants ' redemption payments does not square with the background to the reform 's financial arrangements . |
| 15 | Not supporting Mr Clinton is no liability in Texas : the president received just 37% of the state 's votes in 1992 , and in February he recorded the lowest-ever approval-rating among Texans for an incumbent president . |
| 16 | Former Governor Evan Mecham had been impeached and dismissed in 1988 , while both of the state 's representatives in the federal Senate were involved in the case of the Keating Five [ see above ] . |
| 17 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 18 | The promotion of Peru 's telecommunications firms will begin in earnest next month after the regulatory framework and methodology for fixing rates have been established , Reuter reports from Lima : investment advisers Morgan Grenfell and Coopers & Lybrand will begin pre-qualifying firms interested in acquiring 100% of the state 's shares in Entel Peru SA and 20% of the government 's stake in the Compania Peruana de Telefonos SA ; Peru has just 2.3 lines per 100 inhabitants . |
| 19 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |