21.  The French state has shown no enthusiasm.

22.  The EU also demanded that the French state sell its controlling interest in GAN by June.

23.  The French state has been trying to bring the two companies together to build critical mass within the French aerospace industry.

24.  You should know that as head of the French state, you would be required, now and again, to utter rather harsh words about America.

25.  President Jacques Chirac on Sunday admitted the responsibility of the French state in the deportation of Jews to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

26.  Alcatel also has been implicated in a scheme in which it admitted to systematically overbilling its biggest client, the French state telephone giant France Telecom.

27.  Both paintings belong to the French state.

28.  But everything depends upon on whether the French state will give its OK.

29.  But President Jacques Chirac scoffed at the role of the French state in the world of commerce, saying it must be reduced.

30.  But Renault, which is partly owned by the French state, definitively announced the closure of the factory last Saturday.