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Example sentences for "several states"

  • State denied, and the law as to barbers in several States annulled.

  • Several States threatened to dissolve this Union; several States had taken an attitude hostile to the Government of the country.

  • I may state that I have another objection to this bill at the present time; and that is, that the people of several States in the Union are not represented here, and yet this law is mainly to operate upon those people.

  • An Act to authorize and empower the Delegates of the State of New Jersey in Congress to subscribe and ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the several States.

  • An Act to authorize and empower the Delegates of the Delaware State to subscribe and ratify the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the several States.

  • Pig hickory or pignut are names used in several states, but without good reason.

  • It is known as water elm in several states, but that name is applied indiscriminately to any elm that frequents river banks, as most of them do in some part of their range.

  • At the same election several ladies voted in Nyack, New York, and in Toledo, Ohio, and many unsuccessful attempts were made by others in several States of the Union.

  • Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of authority between the Nation and the several States, has been on the whole far more advantageous to our development than a more strongly centralized government.

  • The title to all the Indian lands within the several States of our Union, with the exception of a few small reservations, is now extinguished, and a vast region opened for settlement and cultivation.

  • Names of men having great political influence had been held up to the people in several states as his successor, but were not satisfactory.

  • The Recall has been used chiefly against city officials, though in several states it may be applied to a majority of both local and state officials.

  • State support is almost always accompanied by a measure of state control, though the extent of this control varies widely among the several states.

  • In several states, and especially in Oregon, it is claimed that the device stimulates political interest on the part of the voters.

  • In several states, notably in Maine, the recognition of this difficulty has led to the adoption of a modified Initiative.

  • They were not appointed to constitute the government of a single people, but to regulate the association of several States; and, whatever their inclinations might be, they could not but divide the exercise of sovereignty in the end.

  • In several States *g the law excludes them from political life, public opinion in all.

  • This city was growing rapidly and was plainly destined to be the principal center of the mineral development of several states.

  • They not only affect our commerce with foreign nations, but trade and transportation among the several states.

  • These banks were authorized by the laws of several states to issue notes as money payable on demand, with no common system or methods of redemption, and varying in value according to the solvency of the banks issuing them.

  • I will not go out of my way to interpose in this between the Executive and the several States, until the administration appeals to me in the right spirit.

  • In several states, for example, the school systems a few years ago were crippled by political domination and nepotism.

  • For years attempts have been made in the legislatures of several states (in part successfully) to enact such legislation, but the practice has been so firmly entrenched that many of the efforts have failed.

  • If there is no white man to pay him out, or if his crime is too serious to be paid out, he goes to the chain-gang--and in several states he is then hired out to private contractors.

  • In several states, however, the per diem compensation ceases, or is reduced to a nominal amount, after the legislature has been in session 60 days or 90 days.

  • Even in several states of the West, as Illinois, more than half the population is now living under urban conditions.

  • Formerly the term was one year in several states, but by 1920 all of them had changed it to two years.

  • These were more confirmed in their sentiments, by observing the temper already discovered in the legislatures of several states, respecting the proceedings of congress.

  • I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging somewhere a power which will pervade the whole union in as energetic a manner, as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.

  • In several states[203] the law excludes them from political life; public opinion in all.

  • They were not appointed to constitute the government of a single people, but to regulate the association of several states; and, whatever their inclinations might be, they could not but divide the exercise of sovereignty in the end.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    class cruisers; few steps; human face; let her; projecting part; screw propeller; several churches; several cities; several colours; several days; several feet; several hundred; several instances; several letters; several members; several pieces; several places; several rows; several small; several things; several waters; several ways; several works; several writers; several years; shot away