31.  Slovenia and Dalmatia have been thrown to Italy while the other provinces are divided into small separate states ruled from Berlin.

32.  Some sought separate states, some sought autonomy agreements and some were occupied primarily with banditry and drug running.

33.  Tamil leaders eventually demanded a separate state, but they were denied.

34.  That its minority Serbs would worry about their position in a state separate from Yugoslavia was not surprising.

35.  That sensible arrangement was deliberately challenged last month by Lee with his new formula of two separate sovereign states.

36.  The best way to provide that uneasy coexistence is with real separation into two separate states.

37.  The central aim is to locate nonpaying parents who live in a separate state from their children, or who change jobs frequently, or both.

38.  The Chinese government insists the ethnic Uighur seeking a separate state of East Turkestan in Xinjaing have links to Osama bin Laden and the al Qaida terrorist network.

39.  The best bets, though, are that the Scots will get a home-rule Parliament but not the creation of a separate state.

40.  The demand for a united Ireland, an independent Kenya, a separate Tamil state, a Jewish or a Palestinian homeland -- these at least are comprehensible.