1.  Because the Saints gave an economic boost to the young state, Illinoisans at first greeted them congenially.

2.  As a relatively young state under constant threat of terrorist attacks, Israel needs the United States to be such a friend.

3.  Even talk of tribe was taboo under some leaders, who were distrustful of its whiff of primitiveness and anxious to spread a national glue across their young states.

4.  France sought to protect the young revolutionary state from the power of the church, closely associated with the monarchy.

5.  Here there is no talk of splitting up, only of determining the character and future of this young state and ancient people.

6.  Oklahoma is still a young state.

7.  Superstores like Toys R Us, Ace Hardware and Tower Records are swallowing up orange groves and kibbutzim that were once the visual trademarks of the young state.

8.  The Vatican was one of the first countries to recognize the young state.

9.  While the young state did what it could to ensure physical survival, it was not ready to help heal the wounds.

10.  Still a very young state Belgium chose to copy the French monetary system.