41.   By last night, five municipalities had Declared a state of emergency.

42.   Celanese Mexicana operates an oriented-polypropylene film production plant in Zacapu, in the western state of Michoacan.

43.   Cellular phones, too, often evoke a confused state of dread.

44.   Charles and Diana sent back the bland and unadventurous vegetarian dish, a taste of the lacklustre state of the royal Marriage.

45.   Cindy was wandering about her room in a state of undress.

46.   Ciudad Juarez, on the border with Texas in the northern state of Chihuahua.

47.   Continuing anxiety about the state of the economy forced families to pay off more outstanding debt last month.

48.   Defenders have advanced to a state of cognitive dissonance, an awareness that beliefs conflict with evidence.

49.   Depends, of course, on the state of play.