Syria and Israel have been in a state of war since 1948 but the border had been relatively calm in recent years.
North and South Korea are, technically, still in a state of war.
North and South Korea have no formal ties and remain technically in a state of war since a 1953 truce that ended the Korean War.
What has been in the past two decades such a frenzied issue in defining the US in a state of culture war has subsided into a near national consensus.
First, a unilaterally declared Palestinian state will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
That is, Obama is unwilling to commit himself to not recognizing a Palestinian state that will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
Assad has said, yesterday I believe, that the country is in a state of real war.
And so any state formed outside the framework of a peace treaty will be in a de facto state of war with Israel.
In 1875, the Constitution found a home in a tin box in the bottom of a closet in a new building that housed the Departments of State, War, and Navy.
As far as the commentators are concerned, Olmert's puerile attack on the American secretary of state in the midst of a war shows that the he is still the same prideful, vain, motor-mouth that Israelis have come to know and despise over the past several years.
In 2008, while Barack Obama was accumulating a 51 percent margin of victory in the state over war hero John McCain, those same counties once again awarded the Republican candidate over 70 percent of their votes.
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At that time, much of the world's documentary heritage was in a poor state of preservation, which was worsened by war and social upheaval, lack of resources, and ignorance of the importance of this heritage.
Declaring a state of war in Macedonia would need more than two-thirds majority approval -- or 81 of parliament's 120 deputies.
Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, last month submitted a long-awaited report on the state of the war in Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a formal state of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers north-west of Skopje, the capital.
Nor will he land in Skene Manor on Skene Mountain in upstate New York, named for a Skene who was declared an enemy of the state in the Revolutionary War.
In the meantime, Phongthep Thepkanjana, the justice minister, cannot think of any more dramatic victory in the war on corruption than a revision of the regulations concerning gifts to state-sponsored charities.
One of the most notable elements in modern war is the generally lower level of its own casualties that a state will tolerate (the other side too, at least if there is a camera around).
In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
With Labor just one seat away from losing its majority, war is imminent, and he is therefore in a state of maximum readiness.
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It is also rebuilding the main roads in the war-shattered north and east, and is constructing a state-of-the-art performance-arts centre.
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That conflict was marked by ever-shifting alliances, fragmentation of territory into fiefs and a collapse of the central state, which by the war's end in 1990 was headed by two rival claimants.
Norman Schwarzkopf, a West Point graduate who fought in World War I, became head of New Jersey State Police, helping to build the fledgling force and eventually leading the investigation of the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
It was born in 1922, matured after the second world war, and has all the features of a typical state-owned monopoly of the mid-20th century.
It took some searching to find a single precedent, William Jennings Bryan, a pacifist who had resigned as secretary of state in 1915 because he believed American policy favoured joining the war in Europe.
From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.
The result looks unlikely to advance a settlement of Sri Lanka's 17-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who want a separate state in the north-east for the Tamil minority.
If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
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