"state" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To attract Democrats in tobacco-producing states, Republican leaders also included a hotly disputed provision that would pay tobacco farmers $9.6 billion in exchange for giving up price supports and quotas.
- Opponents have denounced it as an expensive giveaway, but the deal may have persuaded as many as 10 House Democrats from tobacco-producing states to vote for the overall tax bill.
- Lawmakers from tobacco-producing states have been pushing for a buyout for more than two years.
- Mr. Helms, the second-ranking Republican on the Agriculture Committee, represents North Carolina, a large tobacco-producing state.
- It is paradoxical that South Carolina, a major tobacco-producing state, has chosen to prosecute women for child abuse in these situations.
- Mr. Richardson said the notion of striking a deal on the two Administration programs originated with lawmakers from tobacco-producing states, but he refused to identify them.
- Both Kentucky and North Carolina are large tobacco-producing states.
- With all due respect to my colleagues from tobacco-producing states, I just see no useful or legitimate purpose for the Government supporting tobacco subsidies.
- Even the legislature of the tobacco-producing state of North Carolina considered cigarette prohibition laws in 1897, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1911, 1913, and again in 1917.
- As a senator from the tobacco-producing state of Tennessee, Al Gore supported requiring warning labels on cigarette packs even though the industry fiercely opposed the idea.
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