Before Obamacare, health care insurance regulation had been a state function, and each state had written laws mandating that all health insurance policies written in the state must cover certain services.
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Congo's war, for example, began because neighbouring countries invaded, but they were able to invade only because the Congolese state had ceased to function, leaving a vacuum.
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Another part is increased spending to bailout spendthrift Democrat states, which Obama calls hiring more teachers, firemen and cops (a state and local government function, not a federal function).
At the ministry of higher education, where officials try to mollify petitioners, Tahar Labassi, a linguistics professor drafted in to serve as chief of cabinet, thinks the state may cease to function.
They included cost of living and the tax climate for retirees (generally a function of state law).
But as Vodafone reminded the world on Thursday, those new media can just as easily function as state-of-the-art propaganda.
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Through all this madness, the state assembly, remarkably, continues to function.
"There is a worsening of the respiratory function, related to the state of his depressed immune system, " Villegas said, reading an official statement on state-run VTV.
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But instead of publishing the leaks on its site--a strategy that has made WikiLeaks the target of cyber- and legal attacks since it began posting a quarter-million secret cables from the U.S. State Department last month--OpenLeaks will function as a secure tip box that passes leaked files on to whatever media outlet or NGO the leaker chooses.
Over the past 20 years, the state has hired nearly a million extra civil servants whose function has not always been too clear.
Officials say that one function of party cells in the non-state sector is to help ensure that such enterprises uphold the law.
It is hard to imagine a more devastating form of terror than that entailed in the dislocation, hardship and destruction that would accompany an America returned to a pre-industrial state - except now with its population crowded into cities that could not function, with a military unable to protect us or to maintain order.
It is quite evident that Cuban intelligence is extremely organized and sophisticated, and does not function like that of a typical isolated third-world rogue state.
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Coleridge believed (if such a searching and puzzling mind can ever be summed up), that all creation, especially man himself, was suffused with God, and that imagination was a function of the divine power, a recovered memory of a higher state.
The government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.
The LCD display also shows the current function of the buttons directly below it, which, in the current state, means switching between tracks in our project.
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The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.
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Another reason a state is suspected is that the virus is designed to gather information but has no clear monetizing function.
In some such places, so-called non-state players (from warlords to private firms to religious leaders) are about the only things that really function at all.
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The four-engine Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter that can perform various long distance air transport tasks targeting cargo and passengers, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
The head of state has no real power, and is chosen indirectly every five years by a federal convention that has no other function.
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