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"the state has lowered its income tax"

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Robert_Snodgrass , state GOP chairman , said a meeting held Tuesday night in Blue_Ridge brought enthusiastic responses from the audience .

It permits the state to take_over bank_accounts , stocks and other personal_property of persons missing for seven years or more .

The bill would increase from $ 5000000 to $ 15000000 the maximum loan the state could make to a local water_project .

State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called_for yesterday in a report of a `` blue_ribbon '' citizens_committee on the aid to dependent children program .

Geneva must remain a sovereign state .

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government Soviets welfare_state

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province

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"his state is in the deep south"

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`` This is one of the major items in the Fulton_County general assistance program '' , the jury said , but the State_Welfare_Department `` has seen_fit to distribute these funds through the welfare departments of all the counties in the state with the exception of Fulton_County , which receives none of_this money .

State_Party_Chairman_James_W._Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking_up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen._John_Tower will be the featured speaker .

The TEA estimated there would be 182 scholastics to attend the day_school in Dallas_County , saving them from coming to Austin to live in the state deaf school .

State representatives decided Thursday against taking_a_poll on what kind of taxes Texans would prefer to pay .

Parson_Weems 's George_Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States .

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administrative_district Bavaria commonwealth Chihuahua Gansu American_state Assam Lower_Saxony Indonesian_Borneo Eritrea hebei Canadian_province Italian_region goa karnataka Bihar Gujarat Orissa friesland Transvaal Soviet_Socialist_Republic Buganda madras kosovo manipur andhra_pradesh Australian_state abkhaz adzhar Tyrol Yunnan eparchy guangdong hunan sinkiang inner_mongolia uttar_pradesh west_bengal Szechwan free_state cape_colony cape_of_good_hope Chechnya country

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country nation commonwealth land body_politic res_publica

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"the state has elected a new president" "African nations" "students who had come to the nation's capitol" "the country's largest manufacturer" "an industrialized land"

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The infamous Wansee_Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942 , to organize the material and technical means to put_to_death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe , was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state , including the Reich_Minister_of_the_Interior , the State_Secretary in_charge of the Four_Year_Plan , the Reich_Minister_of_Justice , the Under_Secretary_of_Foreign_Affairs .

Nor did the Trial devote much attention to exposing the usefulness of anti-Semitism to the Nazis , both in building their own power and in destroying that of rival organizations and states .

That 's a big step toward a modern state .

Essentially this imposed two conditions : First , international_law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political_system in which a number of states were competitive , suspicious , and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; second , it had to be compatible with the value_system that they shared .

Thus , theory and doctrine applicable among the great nations and the smaller European states did not really comfortably fit less developed and less powerful societies elsewhere .

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political_unit world_power ally Reich dominion renegade_state sea_power city_state suzerain estate

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"the current state of knowledge" "his state of health" "in a weak financial state"

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The guest list is in itself a little parable of the state of American civic life at this time .

And now , in March , all Laos suffered a state of siege .

Does that not suggest to you an uncertain and uneasy , not to say confused , state of the public mind ?

Apparently academic challenge in the structured setting creates an optimum of stress so_that the child with high anxiety is able to achieve because he is aroused to an energetic state without becoming confused or panicked .

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between , on_the_one_hand , her arranging the ventilation of the common living_room to her own liking , or turning the television off or on without regard_to the wishes of the others , and on_the_other_hand , my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections , bringing my big easy_chair with me , usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state , and plunking myself down in my chair - in_short , behaving as if I owned her room .

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condition degree condition action situation being sale office death freedom status integrity maturity nature relationship employment relationship order perfection end dependence grace readiness unemployment conflict motion inaction dead_letter imminence illumination merchantability plurality annulment utilization temporary_state union physiological_state nonbeing damnation immaturity omnipotence omniscience disorder dystopia utopia cognitive_state receivership imperfection ownership hostility turgor tribalism cleavage isomerism conditionality mulltivalency heterozygosity homozygosity kalemia ground_state ornamentation obligation flux motionlessness representation paternity medium skillfulness

Synonyms

say tell

Examples

"He said that he wanted to marry her" "tell me what is bothering you" "state your opinion"

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R._H._S._Crossman , M.P. , writing in The_Manchester_Guardian , states that departures from West_Berlin are now running at the rate not of 700 , but of 1700 a week , and applications to leave have risen to 1900 a week .

An amazing article in the Manchester_Guardian of last November , entitled `` Fate of Redundant Churches '' , states than an Archbishops ' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church_of_England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now , or will be in 20 years ' time .

For_example , a writer in a recent number of The_Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un English '' ' .

Similarly , the American_Cancer_Society ( ACS ) , the Arthritis_and_Rheumatism_Foundation , and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high .

The two fluids which gave the small negative pressures were polybutenes with molecular_weights which were stated to be 520 and 300 .

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express add give answer note declare declare present announce explain get_out play_down preface articulate sum misstate declare say statement narrator affirmation

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Department_of_State State_Department dos

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"the Department of State was created in 1789"

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executive_department bureau_of_intelligence_and_research bureau_of_diplomatic_security foreign_service

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country land nation

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"he returned to the land of his birth" "he visited several European countries"

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administrative_district Cuba Soviet_Union Australia fatherland Iceland Philippines European_country Indonesia Turkey kingdom Dominican_Republic Papua_New_Guinea sultanate Comoros Grenada Maldives Haiti African_country Jamaica Barbados Asian_country Trinidad_and_Tobago Samoa Cyprus South_American_country buffer_state Sao_Tome_e_Principe Fiji Dominica east_timor Bahamas Israel Burkina_Faso Turkmenistan Antigua_and_Barbuda North_American_country Vanuatu Malta Mauritius New_Zealand Tuvalu Saint_Christopher-Nevis Saint_Lucia Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines Marshall_Islands Kiribati Seychelles Solomon_Islands Nauru Russia Ukraine Sri_Lanka Tonga Cape_Verde rus banana_republic etruria federated_states_of_micronesia tax_haven palau democratic_republic_of_sao_tome_and_principe department domain midland

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state-supported

Examples

"a state university"

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Just_as the national and state parks place emphasis on features which are of national or state significance , counties should seek_out these features which are distinctive of their area .

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public

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submit put_forward posit

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"I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

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Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion , although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests .

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round_tables , workshops or panel_discussions - whatever they are called - on this subject will recognize that the final , boiled_down crux_of_the_matter is education .

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity , but this apparently is an overestimation .

With multiple member districts the still fragmentary local party organizations could have operated more effectively and parties might have been encouraged to state their positions more clearly .

But before discussing it , I should_like to record one vote of thanks to them for the clarity with which they have stated their case .

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propose affirmation

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state_of_matter

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"the solid state of water is called ice"

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chemical_phenomenon phase gas liquid plasma solid plasma chemistry liquid solid gaseous

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express

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"Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

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Scores are stated in grade equivalents on a national norm .

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denote vote vote

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"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"

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emotional_state colloquialism

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"state security"

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Just_as the national and state parks place emphasis on features which are of national or state significance , counties should seek_out these features which are distinctive of their area .

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public