The state's occupation tax is computed on gross sales.

The IBRD program imposes a threshold based on gross national income per capita when determining a member state's eligibility to borrow.

Hoeven's governorship included the expansion and diversification of the state's economy, which led to a 49. 5 percent increase in the state's real gross domestic product.

: Davis ' actions were a " gross mismanagement of California Finances by overspending taxpayers ' money, threatening public safety by cutting funds to local governments, failing to account for the exorbitant cost of the energy, and failing in general to deal with the state's major problems until they get to the crisis stage.

An agrarian state, most residents are involved in agriculture and allied activities, although service sector is the biggest contributor to the state's gross domestic product.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

The meaningful policies governing the purchase, assignment, use and management of state vehicles have been shaped by the state's administrative officers.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.

These include four national forests and one national preserve within state borders that provide over 25 % of the state's public recreation land.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.

Some constitutions, especially written constitutions, also act as limiters of state power, by establishing lines which a state's rulers cannot cross, such as fundamental rights.

Post-1938, federal courts deciding issues that arise under state law are required to defer to state court interpretations of state statutes, or reason what a state's highest court would rule if presented with the issue, or to certify the question to the state's highest court for resolution.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

Thus the necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth of a proposition of law simply involved internal logic and consistency, and that the state's agents used state power with responsibility.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

The state's party bosses, however, rejected this compromise and the state legislature rejected the plan on three occasions in 1909 and 1910.

The US state of Illinois declared " American " to be the state's official language in 1923, although linguists and politicians throughout much of the rest of the country considered American simply to be a dialect.

Depending on the state and the number of athletes competing in the state, certain qualifications must be achieved to compete in the state's championship meet.

As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of " First lady ": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints.

The party also made gains in the two state elections held at the same time, acquiring sufficient seats for a CDU-FDP coalition in the northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein and gaining enough votes in left leaning Brandenburg to clear the 5 % hurdle to enter that state's parliament.

Every state maintains its own bar association, supervised by that state's highest court.

Certainly, there is a growing trend toward judging a state's domestic actions in the light of international law and standards.

A party's consent to a treaty is invalid if it had been given by an agent or body without power to do so under that state's domestic law.

On July 23, 2009, three members of Wisconsin Family Action filed a petition for an original action in the Wisconsin Supreme Court, seeking a declaration that the domestic partner registry is unconstitutional under the state's Marriage Protection Amendment.

May 13, 2011: Governor Scott Walker asked to withdraw the state's defense of the domestic partnership registry.

Among McGreevey's accomplishments were implementing a stem cell research plan for New Jersey, heavily lobbying for the state's first domestic partnership law for same-sex couples and signing such a law in early 2004.

* 6 – Bob Taft, governor of the U. S. state of Ohio, signs the state's Defense of Marriage Act which denies recognition of same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partner agreements performed in other states.

argue, two key sets of factors for successful deterrence are important being ( i ) a defending state strategy that firstly balances credible coercion and deft diplomacy consistent with the three criteria of proportionality, reciprocity and coercive credibility, and secondly minimises international and domestic constraints ; and ( ii ) the extent of an attacking state's vulnerability as shaped by its domestic political and economic conditions.

Indeed, all three elements of a balanced deterrence strategy are more likely to be achieved if other major international actors ( for example the United Nations or NATO ) are supportive and if opposition within the defending state's domestic politics is limited.

that must taken into consideration is the domestic political and economic conditions within the attacking state affecting its vulnerability to deterrence policies, and the attacking state's ability to compensate unfavourable power balances.

This in part is a function of the strength and flexibility of the attacking state's domestic economy and its capacity to absorb or counter the costs being imposed.

The state's Republican U. S. Senator George Voinovich and then-Senator Mike DeWine opposed the amendment's broad language, fearing it could bar not only same-sex marriage but also civil unions, domestic partnerships, and possibly wills and any legal contracts for homosexuals.

While Attorney General, Sandoval led the state's legal fight against the storage nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, developed Nevada's first Public Integrity Unit and sponsored legislation strengthening Nevada's laws against domestic violence, drug abuse and human trafficking.

National wealth was widely viewed as the groundwork of national power, governmental controls soon dominated nearly all of the state's domestic economy.

In the House of Representatives he opposed the isolationism of many of his conservative Republican colleagues, opposed anti-lynching legislation on state's rights grounds, rejected minimum wage laws and most of FDR's domestic policy.

The petitioners countered that they had attempted to exhaust the domestic remedies, but had been prevented from so doing by excessive procedural delays on the part of the state's judicial officers.

* Incorporation of international law, giving domestic legal force to a sovereign state's international legal obligations

Melzi was described as a gentleman, and effectively ruled over the state's domestic affairs during the three years of the republic's life.

Anticipating the trilemma that would later be formulated as the Impossible trinity, Lord Keynes and White argued that freedom of movement for capital conflicted both with nation state's freedom to pursue economic policies based on their domestic circumstances, and also with the semi fixed exchange rate system that was widely agreed to be important to maximise international trade in goods and services.

Students at the school have participated in a nine-week domestic violence program, aimed at cutting the state's nation leading rates of such violence.

Given the use of the term " domestic partnerships ", the Oregon legislation is more in line with Washington state's recognition of same-sex relationships and California's recognition of same-sex relationships, as opposed to the civil union legislation created in Vermont, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.