(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.
Turnpike
Definition:
(n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
(n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
(n.) A turnpike road.
(n.) A winding stairway.
(n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
(v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the early hours of 2 May 1973, Assata Shakur was stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper named James Harper, allegedly for driving with a faulty rearlight.
(2) In doing so it creates a tollbooth economy: a system of corporate turnpikes, operated by companies with effective monopolies.
(3) The number of corporal accidents and deaths were 22.6% and 37.2%, respectively, on turnpikes, 31.3% and 47.2%, on rural roads, and 46.1% and 15.6% on urban networks.
(4) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
(5) Photograph: Alamy New Jersey, the Garden State, is often better known for its turnpikes and suburban sprawl than its green spaces.
(6) The New Jersey Turnpike was fine, but that was most likely because it’s a toll road with its own source of funding.
(7) Paul Jones, 24, a youth hockey coach from Warminster in the Philadelphia suburbs, was on his way to a game in Lancaster when he got stuck – along with his fiancee, another coach and three players – in a major backup on the turnpike.
(8) New communications demanded middlemen and dealers, hackney coachmen, canal and turnpike engineers, technicians, instrument makers and cartographers.
(9) But he also zeroes in on why all this is bad news for millions of Americans, in a passage that focuses on the Pennsylvania turnpike, almost sold by governor Ed Rendell after a bidding war that included the Spanish corporation Abertis and Goldman Sachs.
(10) Taibbi quotes a friend who worked for a Gulf-region sovereign wealth fund, apparently offered a stake in the turnpike by American investment bankers, and also makes reference to a small Pennsylvanian businessman called Robert Lukens.
(11) Speeding was responsible for one out of six deaths on turnpikes and national roads, one out of two on urban and rural roads.
(12) Industry became our forte from the infrastructure provided by the installing of a nationwide turnpike system from the 1730s, through the construction of the Iron Bridge in the 1770s, to the first public railway in 1803.
(13) She described: A long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road.
(14) Heavy snow in the Philadelphia area led to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that spawned fender-benders involving 50 cars, stranding some motorists for up to seven hours.
(15) Squares were gated, streets were controlled by turnpikes.