1.   She explained that she wore furs and her jewelry only when she traveled abroad with her husband on state visits.

2.   The Queen will pay a state visit to China later this year.

3.   The president of Czechoslovakia is in Washington on a state visit.

4.   The symbolism of every gesture will be of vital importance during the short state visit.

5.   ...all the pageantry of an official state visit.

6.   King Hassan went to Washington on a state visit, when it was expected that he would discuss the question of a revised voting list for the Western Sahara.

7.   An embarrassing incident of espionage is being downplayed by the Chinese and U.S. governments as President Bush prepares for his first state visit to Beijing next month.

8.   An exchange between musical capitals often resembles a state visit, with a grand and venerable institution taking up temporary residence in a palatial hall.

9.   And in an Oval Office interview with Japanese journalists, Clinton said he would reschedule his state visit to Japan but was vague about the timing.

10.   And moreover, I recommended that President Clinton not hold private meetings with the leaders of the political parties because it is a state visit.