Because of potential risk to national and international security, nuclear-weapons states have inherited substantial responsibilities in protecting and stabilizing their nuclear forces.

Big Stage for State Politics Legislative campaigns have become highly competitive, sophisticated and costly as nearly one-third of state legislatures may change control and as the states inherit responsibilities from Washington.

The Byzantine state inherited from pagan times the administrative, and financial routine of administering religious affairs, and this routine was applied to the Christian Church.

Ten years later, the German Empire was founded and the new state inherited the old Prussian treaty.

Among its provisions it establishes that newly independent post-colonial states are subject to the "clean slate" rule, such that the new state does not inherit the treaty obligations of the colonial power (article 16).

Many states in the southwest that were originally Mexican territory have inherited several unique features from the civil law that governed when they were part of Mexico.

Now we know that these new states have inherited huge problems from the Soviet Union.

English common law was incorporated into the statutes of many states, thus the states inherited the rules prohibiting this practice.

The new Estonian state inherited a ruined post-war economy, and an inflated ruble currency.