1.  For Marxists, the global system is the capitalist global system, and the most important actors are the capitalist classes in the most powerful states.

2.  Louis XIV, young, anxious to assert his personal and dynastic prestige and conscious of ruling the most powerful state in Europe, reacted vigorously.

3.  The British state, compared, for example, with the powerful French state, developed in line with the interests of the dominant groups of civil society.

4.  And in the meantime, it is simply not possible to ignore and isolate other powerful states that do not share those values.

5.  But throughout history, Russians have suffered more from an overly powerful state than from invaders.

6.  Croatia and Serbia were the two most militarily powerful states to emerge from the breakup of Yugoslavia.

7.  Election Commission announces that Yeltsin has won approval of a draft constitution setting up a powerful presidential state and weak legislature.

8.  In fact, Mann said, the base closure process was deliberately designed to protect it from individual lobbying by powerful states like California.

9.  Proponents of the measure argue that the federal government would never carry through on a threat to deny funds to schools in such a politically powerful state as California.

10.  Such extreme sentiments made it almost impossible for Germany, by far the most powerful West European state, to act forcefully in the Balkans.