1.   The state Decided to defend the charges.

2.   It is for each member state to decide how its powers should be exercised domestically.

3.   And Republican governors have called on the Senate to eliminate the mandatory cutoff of unwed teen-age mothers, letting the states decide on their own.

4.   As the welfare overhaul kicks in, states are deciding whether they would want to continue to finance some benefits.

5.   At the moment each European state can decide which weedkillers it approves, and all have approved glyphosate.

6.   At the insistence of Gov. George E. Pataki, the state decided not to, and state legislation was passed to conform to the federal law.

7.   Beyond that, some states have decided to resist conversion at all.

8.   A House of Representatives committee voted Thursday to scrap the national school lunch program and let states decide how to feed school children with federal money.

9.   According to sources, the states decided to proceed with their long-threatened antitrust suit, to be filed Monday with a similar complaint by the Justice Department.

10.   Advocates of term limits are hoping the Court will ignore the Constitution and allow states to decide how long members of Congress can serve.