western state
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwesternandstate
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western
adjective
uk/ˈwes.tən/us/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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state
noun
uk/steɪt/us/steɪt/
a condition or way of being that exists at a ...
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(Definition ofwesternandstatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwestern state
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Althoughwesternstateconstitutions contained more protections for labor than other state constitutions, labor did not get all it wanted.
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My reading ofwesternstateconstitutions and the deliberations at the conventions where they were written, leads me to the conclusion that this consensus view is incomplete.
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Eachwesternstatehas slightly different requirements for claim staking.
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The authors suggest that citizens, who used to be the backbone of thewesternstate, are no longer relevant.
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The agency was subsequently dismantled and the director moved to awesternstate.
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For example, the perceived antigovernment stance of the western states is a staple assumption of western history and political studies.
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In the political economy of the western states toward the end of the nineteenth century we see the less-advanced politics and economics of uneven development.
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Writing laws for rights to water was an issue peculiar to the western states.
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What was tradition in older and (usually) bigger states, seemed anachronistic to the newly minted western states.
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Michigan was the firstwesternstateto adopt the town meeting system, but it was initially very restricted in its function.
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While quangos are not new to western states, their number increased rapidly as a result of public sector reforms.
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By 1876, four northern states, three southern states, and two western states offered multiple classes of stock in some form or another.
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No longer fearful of communist expansion, western states followed suit.
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Table 1 displays protections for labor provided in state constitutions, both in the western states and states from other regions, written between 1870 and 1899.
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Western states were able to be players and shape the global economy because they had the knowledge, capability, organization, and credibility.
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Western states account for a bit over half the bias.
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Later, the sewage farm's apparent ability to convert waste into valuable produce also caught on in some western states in the late nineteenth century.
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Protections for labor were for the most part confined to constitutions of the western states.
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