To put it simply, Pakistan is not a normal state with a military establishment, but a military establishment that owns a state.
The rivalry with India must be resolved if Pakistan is ever to become a normal state: that is the blunt message of Syed Rifaat Hussain, professor of strategic studies at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.
Maine, on the other hand, has a fairly normal state income tax based on federal adjusted gross income.
And an open letter, signed by 32 Icelandic economists, gave warning that it would not even provide Iceland with what it needs: international credibility as a normal developed state.
The threat that Khomeinism poses to stability in the Middle East and, beyond it, to international peace, will not be removed until Iran once again becomes a normal nation-state with the interests and ambitions of normal nation-states.
The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.
On the other hand, the vast majority of Iran's people wish to live in a normal and free nation-state.
For history tells us that the American Revolution was a radical departure from the normal state of affairs in which those in power determined the common good, and individual liberty by necessity had to yield to the needs of society.
This will give you an opportunity to convert money from your regular IRA to a Roth IRA while in a lower-than-normal federal and state income-tax bracket, says Mr. Baldwin.
As I pointed out above, for some (although not all) economic variables the new normal offers a good description of the current state of play.
"If you are able to see a more or less stable situation in Afghanistan, if it becomes another relatively normal Central Asian state, China will be the natural beneficiary, " says Andrew Small, a China expert at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American research institute.
Next up is a scan on coordination of benefits through normal claims processing to look for cases when another state program or private insurance paid all or part of a claim.
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However, when state television resumed normal transmission with a delayed news bulletin at 21:45 local time (18:45 GMT), there was no comment on the incident.
In the past, business as normal has meant choosing a favourite son to deliver a state or region.
And I think certainly, in China, of course, in a normal week, it's very difficult to stand up and state your beliefs in China.
In this, the stream of video and audio data is recorded as a series of minuscule spots on the disc's surface that have been gently fried by a laser beam and turned from their normal crystalline condition to an amorphous state that has different reflective properties.
In its unfolded state, a protein's backbone is exposed from its normal hiding-place deep within the folds.
The eight days of torrential rainfall that began on September 4th, drenching the Pacific side of the state parts of it with a year's normal supply in 24 hours killed at least 400 people, and left some 800 missing.
Secretary of State Cheryl Gillan has cast aside the speculation over her own future to spend a normal Monday in Cardiff meeting officials and politicians.
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In a statement carried by state media, North Korea said it was prepared to discuss with the businessmen how normal operations could be resumed.
Mr. MARK WASSER (Attorney): It could substantially interfere with the ability of those courts to handle just the normal flow of litigation that they process, and so it's a tough question and elected officials in both state and perhaps the federal level are going to have to debate that.
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