21.  In northern Maine, in many ways a separate state from southern Maine, the decades-long decline in logging and paper-mill jobs continues.

22.  Islamic insurgents want a separate state in Aceh, an oil-rich province on the northern tip of Sumatra.

23.  It has also brought the ethnic Albanians closer to realizing their goal of a separate state, a goal most of the outside world rejects.

24.  It accepted the principle of a separate Bosnian Serb state and it recognized that the Bosnian Serbs might work out some as yet unspecified political relationship with Serbia.

25.  Kemal says in the article that he does not advocate a separate state for Kurds.

26.  John Kennedy had the gift in spades, keeping Cuba, Berlin and other matters of state separate from chronic ill health and a reckless sex life.

27.  Just one week ago, the governing Labor Party dropped its longstanding opposition to a separate Palestinian state.

28.  Lee should drop his talk of separate states, and Beijing should abandon the idea of reunification by military force.

29.  Militant Flemish separatists have used the crimes and accusations of complicity on the part of French-speaking officials to step up demands for a separate state.

30.  One group that jumped into the fray is Am Chofshi, or Free People, an organization that seeks to keep synagogue and state separate in daily Israeli life.