In the American presidential system, whoever wins the most popular votes in a state usually gets all the electoral votes of that state.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Voters in Washington State approved a system like this in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

So,one year of kerosene would pay for a solid-state lighting system."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

There was no state-to-state highway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Thailand's National Health Commission reports that scores of medical specialists have moved from the state system to private health care.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The system was produced by the state-owned Rafael Arms Development Authority and is partially financed by the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

He adds that,unfortunately, post-Soviet countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have also preserved the Soviet system in which historians are funded by the state, rather than private foundations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Germany's state-regulated, public universal health care system dates back to the late 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I am therefore assigning priority to reforming and reorganizing our prison system, reviewing procedures for investigating alleged crimes by the state for special appeals and for the cases of detention without trial for citizens."

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20