21.   Even if the state does not assume city operations, Kenny said her office will take action if officials fail again to make the corrections.

22.   Hence, the state assumes heavy responsibilities and obligations because it can neither cause people to disappear nor tolerate disappearances.

23.   In another option, the states would assume ownership of the assets.

24.   In the fourth option, the states would assume ownership of the physical assets.

25.   It also would then meet one of the legal criteria to have the state assume city operations, she said.

26.   It must be realized that the foundation of a law-upholding state is the responsibility the state assumes over the safety and security of its citizens and residents.

27.   Like the START pact on reducing nuclear weapons, it had to be renegotiated to determine how the successor states would assume the Soviet obligations to cut conventional arms.

28.   The court, without comment, rejected appeals in which prosecutors argued that the state can assume people convicted of certain crimes are violent predators unless they prove otherwise.

29.   The state has assumed electricity purchases because no one has been willing to sell to the cash strapped utilities.