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  • Examples of state
    1. Intolerance as a state policy must not be tolerated. ‎
    2. The state of Israel was established so that the community of Jewry could be safe from murder and oppression.
    3. English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
    4. As he grew, he sat in the council of state, learning kingcraft, and showed there the hard-headed sense of fairness and justice that went with him through life.
    5. “We get so wrapped up in the lei thing,” Ms. Shibata said, noting that instead of that perishable adornment, children will create bracelets of nuts from the kukui, the Hawaiian state tree.
  • Examples of states
    1. That’s good money lying unclaimed in these fresh hard times and the states, looking for a cut, argue that they have the means to track down bondholding taxpayers and ease their pain.
    2. The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake. ‎
  • Examples of stated
    1. According to Gérard Prunier, everything conspired to turn Congo into a kill zone: a dying dictator; the end of the cold war; Western guilt; and a tough, suspicious, postgenocide, Israel-like Rwanda, whose national ethos, simply stated, was Never Again.
    2. He stated that he was willing to help. ‎
    3. stated preaching
    4. stated business hours
    5. The eloquent speaker persuasively stated her argument.
    6. The bishop, a highly placed churchman, stated the religion's opinion.
    7. He stated the case but I did disaccord.
    8. The window display was made up of an assortment of rather curiously shaped guns, rifles as well as small arms; and a glowing sign in the window stated: THE FINEST ENERGY WEAPONS IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
    9. "Several other witnesses gave corroborative evidence, and a constable who helped to arrest the prisoners stated that one of them, on being taken into custody, said: 'Ah, well, this is a fair cop.'"
    10. The problem is exactly the one you have stated: many people would not be comfortable with a sudden genderswap in the Doctor, when the possibility has not even been hinted at in the past.
  • Examples of stating
    1. The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
    2. In stating that the Woosters never give up, I was in error. These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me, leaving me a spent force.
    3. 'Whilst my boat was preparing (a Maltese speronara, with a crew of twelve men, selected for their knowledge of the coast,) I wrote two letters, one to Malta, and the other to Lisbon, stating the loss of the ship.
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