1.   ...a unified German state.

2.   The ruler of the Habsburg territories was also Holy Roman Emperor, in theory at least the suzerain of hundreds of German states and rulers.

3.   In relations between the German states, in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large, Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally.

4.   New legislation in the German state of Bavaria provides for a sophisticated system of recycling rubbish.

5.   And Germany, where five German states unilaterally banned British beef imports last month, said it would seek a European-wide proscription.

6.   Any Jews who suffered, Bardeche wrote, or who were indeed killed were enemies of the German state, so such executions were really an act of justice.

7.   Another company from the German state of Saxony, Transport-Systemtechnik AG, recently presented its own electric car to the public.

8.   As for the prevailing conservatism, Wilson adds, these events occurred before the French Revolution and the panic it provoked among the German states.

9.   Bavaria and Saxony are the only German states where the conservative Christian Democrats have a majority in the state parliament.

10.   Bavaria has the strongest economy and lowest unemployment rate of any German state, and political leaders have carefully distanced themselves from Kohl in their campaigning.