1.   Ministries send in monthly reports which are annotated and submitted to the Chancellor via the state secretaries.

2.   The example of state secretary Jo?

3.   The function of the parliamentary state secretaries has not yet been clearly established.

4.   The only ministers not belonging to the Cabinet are the parliamentary state secretaries.

5.   Borodin, who is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the current Russian president, is now the state secretary of the union between Belarus and Russia.

6.   A teary-eyed motorcyclist impressed J. Charles Fox, the state secretary of natural resources.

7.   CPFL will be the next company Sao Paulo state puts on the auction block, said state planning secretary Andre Franco Montoro Filho.

8.   She announced plans for a new state secretary of Commonwealth security to coordinate safety efforts.

9.   Still, John Wilson, Victoria state secretary of the Finance Sector Union, said workers are concerned more than a quarter of the staff could lose their jobs.

10.   The EU leaders were going line-by-line through a draft treaty, said Michiel Patijn, the Dutch state secretary for European affairs.