State-of-the-union Sentence Examples

Nevada is the most sparsely settled state of the Union.

Sanitary institutes are held by the state board at various towns each year for the instruction of the public. Boards of appraisers and equalization oversee the administration of the tax system; the cost of collection, owing to the fee system for payment of collectors, was higher than in any other state of the Union until 1907, when the fees were greatly reduced.

The female population is greater (and has been since 1765, at least) than the male, the percentage being in 1900 greater than in any other state of the Union (51.3%; District of Columbia, owing to clerks in government service 52.6%).

The number of the foreign-born population in 'goo was 113,091, or 35.4%, the highest proportion to be found in any state of the Union.

This part of the state, strongly Unionist, had striven to prevent secession, and soon became itself a state of the Union (1863).

In 1907 iron ore was mined for blast-furnace use in twenty-nine states only, but the ore occurs in almost every state of the Union.

The officers refused to obey any orders but those of the council of State of the Union.

At the instance of Holland a Grand Assembly was summoned, consisting of delegates from all the provinces, to consider the state of the Union the arm and reli ion.

California was the fourth state of the Union in 1899 in the production of granite.

In 1904, when the U.S. Census Report showed California to be the twenty-first state of the Union in population but the sixth in wealth, the total estimated true value of all property was $4,115,491,106, of which $2,664,472,025 was the value of real property and improvements thereon.

Tobacco was an important crop in the earlier history of the colony, and Virginia continued to be the leading tobacco-producing state of the Union (reporting in 1850 28.4% of the total crop) until after the Civil War, which, with the division of the state, caused it to fall into second place, Kentucky taking the lead; and in 1900 the crop of North Carolina also was larger.

It is the fifth largest state of the Union.

In the five years1896-1900the combined value of the crops of Indian corn and wheat exceeded the value of the same crops in any other state of the Union (Illinois being a close second).

Grasses are perhaps the most noteworthy vegetable forms. Nebraska claims a greater variety of native hay and forage species than grow in any other state of the Union.