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Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French estat, from Latin status; see stā- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Often, Democratic-voting blue states are \ "donor states\" - they put more dollars into the federal kitty than they get back in benefits.”
“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Arabs revising peace plan to win Israel backing for 2 states\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Arab states are revising elements of a 2002 peace plan to encourage Israel to agree to the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state, the London-based paper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported Wednesday. ”
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“VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Eliot Spitzer: How to Ground The Street'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'When the attorneys general of all 50 states sought to investigate subprime lending, believing that some lending practices might be toxic, we were blocked by a coalition of the major banks and the Bush administration, which invoked a rarely used statute to preempt the states\' ability to probe.”
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“Administration officials said the 2003 Medicare law required them to charge the states, in exchange for taking over the states\ 'Medicaid drug costs.”
OpEdNews - Quicklink: States Protest Mandatory Contributions to Drug Plan
“The Webb-Kenyon Act was passed in 1913 to enable the states to close this remaining loophole that essentially discriminated in favor of out-of-state sellers of alcohol and undermined the states¡¦ ability to enforce their laws in dry states.”
“And let it be here particularly noted, that this union was a union of states, _as states_.”
“On the other hand, the union under the constitution is a union, not of the states, as such, but of the _people of the states_.”
“You say, _that the people of the North would not think it "neighborly and friendly" if "the people of the slave states were to form societies, subsidize presses, make large pecuniary contributions, &c. to burn the beautiful capitals, destroy the productive manufactories, and sink the gallant ships of the northern states_.”
“Saxony, and America; and the Protestant will see the Catholic states of Belgium, Bavaria, and France, all granting full liberty of conscience -- leaving every creed to settle its tenets with its conscience, and dealing, _as states_, only with citizens, not sects.”
“The ten least healthy states are all among the "red" states*.”
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