101.  A command spokesman said the freed hostages, who were in a poor physical state, were transferred to a Russian military hospital.

102.  Accidents with high numbers of fatalities happen frequently in Nigeria due to the poor state of the roads, bad vehicle maintenance and dangerous driving.

103.  Almost all illegal immigrants in Algeria are Africans from the south, mostly from the poor Sahel states of Niger and Mali.

104.  But authorities decided to return the Kurds sooner because of their large number and poor state, they said.

105.  But the expulsion of a diplomat was seen as a grave gesture that underscored the poor state of relations between Havana and Washington.

106.  But now it senses a shift in sentiment among Britons fed up with the poor state of national healthcare, education and transport.

107.  Currency dealers there were far more concerned by the poor state of the domestic economy than by military tensions in the Middle East.

108.  Earlier this month, a human rights group in Bosnia warned that prisons in the country were in a poor state.

109.  The outcome marks a dramatic pullback for the PRI in this poor southeastern state, leaving the party well below previous high-water marks.

110.  The poor state of schools has led to a rise in private education in the communist country.