1.   In either case, the end result was the emergence or a strong centralized state under authoritarian rule.

2.   And the instinctive fear of a centralized state remains as strong today.

3.   They want to retain Sinhala dominance in a strong centralized state, and their preferred means for keeping things as they are is more war.

4.   France and Britain, for centuries highly centralized states, are wary of creating a European superstate.

5.   It supports a strong centralized state and rejects Basque demands for greater self-rule.

6.   The ANC, which favors a more centralized state, has rejected mediation until an agenda can be agreed.

7.   The Popular Party supports a strong centralized state and has recently made gains in the three-province Basque region long dominated by Basque nationalists and the Socialists.

8.   They are often Christians who are captured by northern Muslims who run a centralized Islamic state in Sudan.

9.   Separatist Crimean President Yuri Meshkov meanwhile accused Ukraine Saturday of seeking to create a centralized state by force.