(a.) Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that half or more of the interstate differences in spending for this population group are due to actuarial and efficiency factors rather than deviations from equity potential.
(2) U.S. interstate migrants (over a five-year period) are separated into three groups: (a) those leaving state of birth; (b) those returning to state of birth; and (c) those outside state of birth at the beginning of the period and moving on to a third state by the end.
(3) The town is Democratic, and much of the rest – particularly west of interstate 94 – is Republican.
(4) Yet neither factor registered as even slightly consequential initial objections to a fresh new expressway – and one eligible for 90% federal funding as part of the Interstate Highway system.
(5) On Monday, snow drifts kept Interstate 29 closed from Sioux Falls to the Canadian border before reopening in the morning.
(6) Seven miles east of McAllen’s palm-studded city streets, the interstate off ramp slides past the sprawling branch of a popular Texas supermarket – HEB (Here Everything’s Better) – and a drive-in bank.
(7) Outlining his plans in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek Musk said the tubes would be elevated on columns 50 to 100 yards apart and run alongside California's Interstate 5 highway.
(8) In contrast, suicide rates were more strongly related to indices of social integration (e.g., interstate migration and divorce rates).
(9) If people do choose to resign, we will have in place arrangements to replace those people and if we have to replace people from interstate or overseas ... we shall do that,” he told parliament on Thursday.
(10) Trying to follow through a complaint in relation to a non-Queensland police officer, either interstate or internationally, would be an onerous task and unlikely to generate a reasonable outcome,” he said.
(11) 5021, signed last August, an act that moved $7.8 bn into the Highway Trust Fund , which maintains interstates.
(12) Initial queries about the program from the EFF, Franken and others referred to the Next Generation Identification-Interstate Photo System (NGI-IPS, or NGI), which allows the FBI and some state and local agencies to cross-reference surveillance camera footage and other photographs with its collection of candidate photos.
(13) Interstate highways were closed by flooding, including a 75-mile stretch of I95 in the eastern part of the state that is a key route connecting Miami to Washington and New York.
(14) Higher government spending could stimulate the economy further, assuming that it generates a level of inspiration like that of the Interstate Highway System.
(15) Of most interst were those techniques with substantial resource implications and those which were relatively recent.
(16) The charges include conspiracy to commit an offense against the US, assaults and threats against law enforcement, using firearms to commit violence, and interference with interstate commerce by extortion.
(17) The interstate highway may have been a barrier to deer movement which slowed the southward dispersal of Ixodes dammini.
(18) The first night we collapsed in a small hotel just off the interstate, about halfway to our destination.
(19) California data currently available still do not take into account (i) persons who are exposed and become ill, but do not visit a physician or call a poison center, and (ii) most occupational exposures of the self-employed, U.S. military employees, U.S. government employees, maritime workers, and interstate railroad workers.
(20) But we won't because we're busy listening to one of the most exciting frontwomen of recent times on the phone to her dad, trying to convince him to sell her the car at daughter rates before he finds out about the accident, while we stand beside the interstate eating what could well be the best burrito in the States.
Testate
Definition:
(a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.
(n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.
Example Sentences:
(1) A psychiatrist may be asked to assess the competency of a testator when he or she is planning to create or modify a will or after the death of a testator when the will is challenged.
(2) The finding by a court that the author of a will (the testator) lacked mental capacity or was subject to undue influence at the time the will was executed can invalidate the will.
(3) On examination it is found to be intertwined with the testator's attitudes toward death.