Virginia in a sentence

The Virginia General Assembly repealed the act of secession and, in 1866, brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the counties a part of Virginia, which would have declared West Virginia's admission as a state unconstitutional.

A 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, she has worked for nearly 25 years as a reporter and editor for several Virginia publications, written a book, and garnered more than a dozen Virginia Press Association awards for writing and graphic design.

She also serves as a spokesperson for promoting healthy choices and preventing substance abuse to students in Virginia’s elementary schools, as part of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority / Miss Virginia School Tour program.

The program is a partnership between the Governor’s Office, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, Virginia Association of Counties, and Virginia Municipal League.

The Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport is conveniently located adjacent to Virginia Tech on Research Center Drive, steps away from the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center and mere minutes away from the Blacksburg campus.

The school has already announced with home-and-homes with West Virginia, Northern Illinois, Charlotte, Virginia, and Virginia Tech among others over the coming seasons.

The communications directors of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia, the West Virginia Education Association and the West Virginia School Service Personnel Association read a 1-minute statement this afternoon.

Workers from Dominion Virginia Power tend to electrical lines on August 28, 2011 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Although the District of Columbia was originally created as a capital territory out of parts of Maryland and Virginia, the portion from Virginia was removed from the Federal District and returned to Virginia in 1846.

J. McGregor "The Disruption of Virginia", pg. 270 In most of what would become West Virginia, there was no vote at all as two-thirds of the territory of West Virginia had voted for secession and county officers were still loyal to Richmond.

Recreational transportation opportunities abound in West Virginia, including hiking trails, de Hart, A, and Sundquist, B., Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Charleston, West Virginia 1993.

Rivalries Official ACC designated rivalry games include the Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry and the brand new Virginia– Louisville series.

Trans-Allegheny Virginia details A celebration at a slave wedding in Virginia, 1838 Social conditions in western Virginia were entirely unlike those in the eastern portion of the state.

Virginia group The large-seeded Virginia group peanuts are grown in the US states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and parts of Georgia.

West Virginia University and the WVU Institute of Technology (aka West Virginia Tech), Marshall University, and West Virginia State University also have higher education campuses in the area.

After the American colonies declared independence, the Virginia General Assembly recognized that many of the laws that operated in the colony of Virginia would not work for the newly independent state.

An overcast day at the West Virginia Wildlife Center in Upshur County offered no shadows to West Virginia's official groundhog.

As oak forests matured after extensive logging efforts of the early 1900s, bears recolonized these habitats from our neighboring states of West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

By then, everyone knew that the next Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates would hail from a part of Virginia where many residents thought Stonewall Jackson deserved to be respected and honored.

Children will have the chance to see Virginia Tech’s formula race car and motorcycle team, and the Virginia Department of Forensic Science will have educators on site.