Originally, it was thought that the federal government could not ban guns, but states and cities could.

It extends until the year 2000, at which time the state could award the gambling franchise to another corporation.

The person there told her the swans weren't protected under law and the state could not, or would not, do anything.

European states could and frequently did express their commitment to peace.

"If it goes to fair market," she said, "I'll have to think what other state could I live in and be an artist."

In this light it is plausible that these 'city states' could at one time or other have acknowledged the pre-eminence of a 'first among equals'.

As a quasi-independent agency, the authority would be able to raise money, when the state could not, by issuing bonds.

Because states could and did ban agency fee agreements, there was no governmental action on which to base a constitutional claim against the union.

In what other possible state could our world exist?

Segregation was a way of keeping blacks as close to slavery as the states could.