1.  During the campaign against uranium mining, the legitimacy of the central state was constantly challenged.

2.  Federalism is intended to diminish the power of the central state.

3.  Congress was also successful in the small eastern states, the western state of Maharashtra and the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

4.  Russia and central Asian states were alarmed by the possibility of Islamic forces gaining the upper hand in the current conflict.

5.  PRI victories in the gubernatorial elections held in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Sinaloa and the central state of Puebla were fiercely disputed.

6.  An additional separator plant will be built in Valencia in the central industrial state of Carabobo, the official said.

7.  And he sent extra military police to the central state of Hidalgo, according to news reports.

8.  At a meeting in the Indian town of Tepexi de Rodriguez in the central state of Puebla on Thursday, President Ernesto Zedillo pledged change.

9.  A band of windblown heavy snow will be focused from northwestern Missouri to the central Great Lakes states as an intensifying storm center moves northeast from the Ohio Valley.

10.  A front separating cool air in Canada from the sultry weather over the central states will become active with afternoon showers and thunderstorms from the Dakotas to Ohio.