In any case, the situation in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state of 180m people, looks dire.
Foreigners looking nervously at this nuclear-armed state wonder whether militants who murder ministers might one day take over the government.
And today, this weakened leader is presiding over a tinderbox that threatens to engulf the nuclear-armed state and its neighborhood.
Every day we are beset by an avalanche of evidence that Iran is on the verge of becoming a nuclear armed state.
And on the other hand, it warns Israel daily that it opposes any independent Israeli operation to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
But the transition had not been completed and analysts fear Mr Kim's death could trigger a period of instability in the internationally isolated nuclear-armed state.
At the time of Aziz's attempted overthrow of the Musharraf government and since, the Red Mosque became emblematic of the jihadist war to take over the nuclear-armed state.
Mr Netanyahu praised the president for his stance on Iran, saying he was "absolutely convinced" that Mr Obama was determined to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear armed state.
So far, the transition seems to have been orderly previous purges under his father had involved car crashes but there is enough uncertainty in a nuclear-armed state to leave plenty of concern.
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Rather than face the dangers head on, Panetta's message was that the Obama administration would rather accept a nuclear-armed Iran than support an Israeli military strike on Iran to prevent the mullocracy from becoming a nuclear-armed state.
The undisputable bottom line is that more than six years after Washington allied itself with the Pakistani dictator, the nuclear armed state is beset by the kind of intractable conflict, violence and extremism that may lead to its undoing.
These attacks are perpetrated by non-state armed groups and state actors alike.
He has turned almost the whole of the state bureaucracy, including the armed forces and the state oil company, into an election machine.
Alamo Group ( ALG) makes serious mowers, like the long-armed kind the state uses to mow highway medians, or the kind pulled behind tractors into fields.
Armed groups have targeted state buildings in the past, storming the General National Congress (GNC) on several occasions.
The city is powerless, suggests Mr Atrianfar, to force the conservative-run armed forces and the state broadcaster to pay the millions of dollars of back taxes they owe.
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Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of Iran's armed forces, according to state-run Press TV.
The presence of a 400, 000-strong occupational force has turned the state into an armed camp.
The armed struggle for a separate state for Tamils started in Jaffna peninsula in the 1970s.
In the 1980s, suggestions emerged that the armed forces be put under state, rather than party, control.
Like other bits of the Russian state, the armed forces are falling out of the centre's grasp.
The Jewish state's armed forces should go for the knockout blow on the ground and in the air.
In a 1996 interview, he told CNN the time for an armed struggle for a Palestinian state was over.
South Korea has put its armed forces on a high state of alert.
Thousands of people have been killed in the state since an armed revolt against Indian rule erupted in 1989.
But the zealots who opt to move into Arab districts bring with them the armed support of the Israeli state.
The state said Pistorius armed himself, attached his prosthetic legs and walked 7 meters to shoot Steenkamp through a bathroom door.
It's not confined to a state's armed forces or to rebel groups.
Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, said in December that the Aldershot move would mean 440 job losses among civilian staff.
He was an inspiring resistance leader, calling for public protest, armed attack and a Palestinian state on every inch of the West Bank and Gaza.
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