11.   Last week, McCasland warned that the drive was in financial trouble because of its route through the sparsely populated state.

12.   Last week, drive organizer Bud McCasland warned that the drive was in financial trouble because of its route through the sparsely populated state.

13.   Montana and North Dakota, sparsely populated states, are the only two that are not slated to receive any of the money.

14.   Nevada, a sparsely populated state that has only four members of Congress and is the test site for nuclear bomb blasts, drew the short straw.

15.   New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country, and it also is the most litigious.

16.   New Jersey is a densely populated state with an economy dominated by petrochemical complexes and other heavy polluters.

17.   One wedge pointed across the Northern Plains, and took in such sparsely populated states as Wyoming, the Dakotas, Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and Kansas.

18.   The conservation programs will help densely populated states hoping to control urban sprawl.

19.   They talk confidently now that the Endangered Species Act can help the sparsely populated states overcome the political disadvantage of having fewer representatives in Congress.

20.   Under the Electoral College, small and mid-sized states get slightly proportionally more representation than heavily populated states.