1.  A fragment of time in the pure state...

2.  But they have also been abandoned by the Croatian government, whose policies continue to reflect a desire to have an ethnically pure Croatian state.

3.  It legitimizes the terrible proposition that a tribal group in a territory has the right to create its own ethnically pure state, killing or expelling all others.

4.  No one knew of the danger, because natural gas in its pure state is colorless and odorless.

5.  One of the main obstacles is the continuing presence of the same hard-line extremists who waged war to create ethnically pure states in Bosnia.

6.  The Croatian government has no interest in a peaceful settlement in eastern Slavonia because it will disrupt the plans for an ethnically pure state.

7.  The trouble is, no one can stay in that pure state forever.

8.  These men used the call for an ethnically pure Serbian state to drive tens of thousands of Muslim families from their homes and kill thousands of others.

9.  They see Croatia becoming an almost ethnically pure state with tacit American backing and Serbs outside Serbia being hounded or bombarded.

10.  Though many Bosnian Serbs have considerably more moderate views, some of their leaders view their portion of Bosnia as an ethnically pure state that someday will be independent.