11.  In any case there were those who preferred to discover what links could usefully be cultivated between some western and northern European states and the Commonwealth under British leadership.

12.  The possibility of action in company with leading European states was also raised.

13.  Lord Cherwell commented that without nuclear weapons Britain would be just another European state.

14.  At a NATO meeting last week, some European states pressed for evidence that would justify attacks on bin Laden.

15.  At the moment each European state can decide which weedkillers it approves, and all have approved glyphosate.

16.  But appearances deceive, for Denmark has an acute case of the identity crisis now afflicting several European states.

17.  But his authoritarianism has done much to keep his nation from becoming a modern European state.

18.  But projected UN budgets for Afghanistan are modest compared with big bilateral aid programs being planned by the United States, Japan and some European states.

19.  European states are worried that a change in borders within the Balkans could provide a precedent for others.

20.  European states cannot decide whether to view young immigrants as a burden or a potential benefit to their aging societies.