41.  In one model the RSK and the Bosnian Serbs would join Yugoslavia as federal states.

42.  In Germany however, the governments of the various federal states had always opposed industrial mergers because of the job losses and factory closures they inevitably entailed.

43.  In written statements, the mysterious group has demanded the creation of separate federal states for tribal groups, Muslims and Christians in the Philippines.

44.  A note also accompanied the bomb demanding the government create separate federal states for tribal minorities, Muslims and Christians, he said.

45.  At the heart of the dispute is a demand by the IFP, which is strongly in favour of a federal state, for greater autonomy for KwaZulu-Natal.

46.  By that time the newly created federal state had hardly had time to consider the extent of its cultural losses.

47.  Eichel has also pointed the blame at the regional German federal states who were not doing enough to get their finances in order.

48.  The regional parliaments of Berlin and Brandenburg in eastern Germany voted Thursday to transform the two federal states into a single entity.

49.  The plan envisages turning Sri Lanka into a federal state in all but name.

50.  The south weste constituencies had called for a federal state with regional autonomy.