Other states ban them or leave the decision to local communities.

Leaving (or being left) is the natural state of affairs.

Instead, she had abandoned her responsibility, left the state to decide what was to become of him.

Many states, like Massachusetts, have left their language more vague.

So 52 individual states left to look after themselves?

While a state can leave, there is no provision for it to be excluded.

The Church's state had left the site vulnerable to looting.

The state should protect freedom but otherwise leave virtue to individuals.

At the heart of the dispute was whether to require states to upgrade their election systems or to leave any such action to them.

"We've got five states left where it's legal," he said.