It is the ultimate swing state, a place where voters have managed to side with the winning candidate in every presidential election over the last half-century.
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It assumes that the State has ultimate ownership of all personal property and that the State knows better than individuals how their wealth should be distributed after their death.
In its capacity as ultimate landlord, the State distributes the land among its beneficiaries on its own terms.
The ultimate cure for the state-aid addicts does not lie in tinkering with procedures or in giving the commission more power or, indeed, in Brussels at all.
The ultimate responsibility would rest with state legislatures and governors.
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For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.
Israeli leaders have for years acknowledged that a Palestinian state will be the ultimate outcome of any negotiated peace.
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The right of the state to have the ultimate word on social and environmental issues is embedded in the constitution.
For a state governor, the ultimate third-party payer is the federal government.
The ultimate goal is to create a state-of-the art company office that provides ergonomic solutions for amputees and seriously wounded veterans that will work at the startup.
The result was that Bolton understandably felt he could not trust the analyst, a sentiment he conveyed to Westermann's ultimate boss, Assistant Secretary of State Carl Ford .
But in 2008, having judged that the ultimate power in Russia lay with state energy companies, BP went behind the backs of its private Russian partners to negotiate a deal with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas behemoth.
Like Europe, the ultimate price for the growing corporate state will be paid by the American consumer (in the form of higher prices, reduced choice, and foregone innovation), and the American taxpayer, who is already facing an enormous bill from the direct subsidy of favored constituents.
The move will nurture Palestinian hopes that, down the road, they can reach their ultimate objective: a full-fledged state.
The interests of the Free World in general and the United States in particular will suffer from what the Saudis and most of the other attendees have in mind for the Jewish State namely, its dismemberment and ultimate destruction.
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And I reiterated and we discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday -- the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state.
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His ultimate goal has been the formation of a Kurdish state in Turkey's rural southeast, which has a predominantly Kurdish population.
The dry, hot desert air and laid-back southwestern state of mind creates an otherworldly setting for ultimate relaxation.
Twice the size of Germany, the Lone Star state is vast: the quest for the ultimate chilli might as well start in its capital.
Unguarded comments by some PA officials have also suggested they still see Israel's existence as temporary - that a two-state solution is merely a stepping stone to its ultimate demise.
The diplomatic skills of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are about to be put to the ultimate test.
The ultimate jurors are the constituents in every member's district or state.
The President made clear last night that he's Commander-in-Chief and he carries ultimate responsibility for everyone in the administration, for the Secretary of State and others.
The Pentagon's ultimate goal of creating a single network of sensors may also benefit state and local programs designed to monitor air pollution, noxious fumes and municipal water supplies, the report stated.
Mr Bursford's great passion for design led him to invent several state of the art bikes, including the renowned Bursford Ultimate Bike for which he received a Millennium Product Award from the Design Council.
And Washington, with its foreign-policy pivot to Asia, will devote less attention to the conflicts that threaten the Jewish state, even as the U.S. remains the ultimate guarantor of Israeli security.
Caught in the throes of its redistributive delirium, the welfare state redistributes more and more of less and less until driven to its ultimate lunacy, it leaves everyone sharing equally in the misery it creates.
China should also spare no effort in fighting corruption of any form, because corruption of party officials, government officials, state-owned enterprise officials and their relatives and cronies may become the ultimate nemesis of political stability and the viability of the political system in China.
With the exception of a team working at Pennsylvania State University, he stands alone in the pursuit of what may be the ultimate feat of bioengineering, (see table).
Just as the Second Amendment in the United States, at its core, remains the final right of a free people to prevent their ultimate political repression, a powerful instrument is needed to prevent a corresponding repression State monetary supremacy.
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