Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

The Bank of the United States also helped to control the smaller state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

One bank in the state of Michigan offered paper money with a picture of a wildcat on it.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

And it would permit the bank to open offices in a state, but only if the state approved.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Bank offices would be permitted in any state where the state legislature did not immediately refuse permission.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

and Netanyahu fears a Palestinian state in the West Bank would lead to a similar situation in Israel's backyard.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

There have been reports that Germany is considering buying Greek government bonds through a state-owned bank, as an emergency measure.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Mr.Obama called for the creation of a Palestinian state and condemned Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

They are accused of sending money to the Iran's state-owned Bank Melli.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

The West Bank has never been formally annexed by the Jewish State.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

President Obama,in his speech to the Muslim world in June, called for Israel to stop settlement expansion in the West Bank and allow for the establishment of a Palestinian State.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Mr.Netanyahu also warned that the Islamic militant group Hamas could seize control of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, just as it ousted Mr.Abbas from the Gaza Strip in 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The Palestinian divisions pose a major obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which is the stated goal of the peace process sponsored by the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

The Palestinians claim the West Bank and East Jerusalem as territory for a future state, and they have conditioned a resumption of peace talks on a halt to all Israeli construction in those areas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03