1.   But critics fear an amendment would push the economy into a recession and lock growth states like Florida into unfair funding formulas for welfare, Medicaid and other programs.

2.   Once again, the three states are locked in bitter dissention.

3.   Posner essentially locked the states out of the process, several state officials said.

4.   The Davis administration was criticized in some quarters for locking the state into long-term contracts at high prices.

5.   The two small Arab Gulf states have been locked in a territorial dispute over a chain of islands and a strip of land.

6.   Arab states have been locked in efforts to activate internal trade, hit by customs barriers, political rifts, and financial and economic problems.

7.   The summit aims to devise a programme to enhance economic cooperation and promoting trade in the region where several member states are locked in bilateral disputes.

8.   The summit aims to devise a programme to enhance economic cooperation and promote trade in the region where several member states are locked in bilateral disputes.

9.   The two states are locked in a dispute over territorial claims to the Hawar islands and sandbanks in the area.

10.   The communist state is locked in a row with the international community over the inspection of its nuclear installations.