1.   The state could face social apartheid if minority students do not have access to higher education.

2.   Heads of state and government agreed that member states face common economic challenges, and were concerned at lower growth and increasing unemployment.

3.   Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face, in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems.

4.   Although instant deportation is becoming more common, EU states still face legal and diplomatic obstacles to expelling illegal migrants.

5.   Although the full-page ads say the state faces major challenges to clean the air, the umbrella theme is success.

6.   Although most of those who were trapped by the floodwaters have been rescued, the state now faces an environmental problem with enormous and long-term consequences.

7.   Although Rhode Island is not a major trash exporter, Chafee feared the small state could face tough times in the future if its options were limited.

8.   And the state will face increasing costs for the health industry, for nursing homes, and for services for seniors, Haley said.

9.   Antonacci said that a new tax on slot machines would provide the state a much-needed windfall, now that the state is facing a massive budget deficit.

10.   As competition for capital investment has intensified, states have faced difficult choices about their internal economic, political and social structures.