31.   The Institutional Revolutionary Party has run the state with an iron fist in an attempt to keep a lid on rural discontent.

32.   The president chose the governors and they ran their states like little kings.

33.   Then, as is so often the case now, African states were run with little thought to the benefit of their subjects.

34.   This phase of the business is controlled mostly by the Wa, Kokang and Shan warlords, who run rebel states within Myanmar.

35.   They run states.

36.   Top aides to the governor maintain that they are scrupulous about separating campaign work from the business of running the state.

37.   Women may run the state Capitol, but men still pull in the biggest paychecks in Arizona government.

38.   You boasted you were fiscally responsible and that you would run the state as you ran your businesses.

39.   A statewide poll last month indicated that Minnesotans are split as to whether they agree with him or believe he should stay focused on running the state.

40.   And the auto-dependent masses have plenty of cause for anxiety in how Whitman is running the state.