After the end of the Bank of the United States, there was little control of any kind over the state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The Hobbesian state will always exist in a world of hostile other states, unregulated by some kind of higher law.

即国家总是存在于,一个充满敌意的世界里，而且总是被更高的法则约束着。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The polis is not merely a city state in the same way as,let us say, the Mesopotamian city states of the third millennium B.C. Were.

那就是城邦不仅仅是一座城市,并不是像,我们说的公元前三千年的,美索不达米亚的城市

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Of course there are lots of states that would have maybe local pockets of one substance in excess and another substance in excess somewhere else In other words, there would be lots of states nearby to the equilibrium state.

当然，我们有很多的态,这些态中，某些位置被一种气体完全占据,另外一些位置被另一种气体完全占据,换句话说,在平衡态附近有很多的态。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In fact, our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly depended on our state of mind, not on our status, or the states of our bank account.

事实上，我们的准备和体验幸福的可能性,主要由我们的心境决定，不是我们的地位或银行账户状况。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He was thrown from a taxi. After recovering, he moved to the state of Kansas, and met United States Senator Sam Brownback.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In 1864, a United States senator called for legislation to give the Yosemite Valley to the state of California as a public park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Glenn became famous. He later was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Secretary of State Blaine wanted to increase trade between the United States and other countries.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Mister Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in front of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The Bank of the United States also helped to control the smaller state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Former United States Senator Robert Toombs of Georgia was the Confederate secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

The report is called "The State of the Birds United States Two Thousand Nine."

VOA: special.2009.05.12

On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will hold talks with the UAE and other countries about possible bans on BlackBerry services.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

And he said it was right for the United States to pay the debts of Texas, because that state no longer could collect taxes on trade as an independent country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The ceremony was held under the pine trees with Stumpy saying the simple works: "I proclaim you Thomas Luck, according to the laws of the United States and the state of California, so help me God."

VOA: special.2009.06.06

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09

Secretary of State Clinton said the United States agreed with Russia it was important to pursue diplomacy toward Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

State Department Spokesman P.J.Crowley said the statements show the United States condemns all forms of terrorist and sectarian-driven violence wherever it occurs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

After the group was pardoned, Berhanu went to the United States, where he teaches economics at a university in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25