51.  APTV has pictures of the tense confrontation in the traditionally conservative northern state of Queensland.

52.  Demand for Islamic banking is growing in this oil-rich conservative Gulf state.

53.  Dorgan and Conrad are from the small state of North Dakota, and the others represent conservative southern states.

54.  In Nebraska, Republicans were giddy when Kerrey, a rare Democrat in the conservative state, declined to run for a third term.

55.  Tapping a growing sentiment that immigration must be curbed, the conservative state of Bavaria introduced a measure Friday to reduce the number of foreigners allowed into the country.

56.  The conservative Muslim states of the Gulf have been traditionally pro-Western, but since the collapse of communism have established relations with Moscow.

57.  The four-month trial has shocked Egypt, a conservative state where homosexuality is seen as a shameful sin.

58.  The Indian rock group Indus Creed began pounding out a beat, and the crowd responded with frenzied dancing never seen before in this conservative Persian Gulf state.

59.  The South Carolina primary was looming at the time, and Bush went on to win in the conservative state.

60.  The sentence came at the end of a four-month trial that has shocked Egypt, a conservative state where homosexuality is seen as a shameful sin.