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Starting this year Mahannah boasts the toughest antler restrictions in the state-a minimum 18-inch inside spread or 20-inch main beam.

100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Mississippi 2007

"Such a dangerous threat against a sovereign state-a member of the United Nations-is a manifest violation of international law and contravenes the most fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations."'

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iran demands Security Council action on Israel threat 2008

'Such a dangerous threat against a sovereign state-a member of the United Nations-is a manifest violation of international law and contravenes the most fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations.'

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iran demands Security Council action on Israel threat 2008

"They're going to try to paint him as a small guy from a small state-a rube," says one Clinton aide.

Can He Beat Bush? 2008

The United States is now the globe's largest and most powerful rogue state-a nuclear-armed superpower bully capable of destroying any 3rd World Country that gets in its way of American Imperialism acting utterly without legal or moral constraint whenever Der Fuhrer Bush proclaims it necessary.

America is now a Fascist State. 2006

He followed the shoes toward a leaking yellow light, which bobbed ahead in a larger space, until, one by one, the two men ahead of him fell through an opening into a short white cave, or-no, he recognized it, even in its current state-a subterranean parking garage, the Orange level, apparently.

The Zero Walter, Jess 2006

The late addition of $70 million in cash collateral for the mezzanine loan from the state-a portion of the $261 million state tax rebate package-was a crucial factor that got the deal over the hill, people involved in the process say.

WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

One side of American politics considers the modern welfare state-a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society's winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net-morally superior to the capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2011

Thus, the frequently stated axiom that one can be truly Muslim only in an Islamic state-a conviction utterly at odds with the spirit of the Sufi.

Commonweal Magazine aniitcw 2010

"The predictable effect of a tax reduction such as the one you have proposed will be an increase in the number of cruise passengers visiting your state-a welcome result for passengers, travel agents and Alaska-based businesses alike,"

TravelDailyNews.com 2010