1.  The dismantling of the Czechoslovak federal state, accelerated by the federal and republican elections in June, gathered momentum during July.

2.  However, voting was marred by violence and almost one-quarter of the population was prevented from voting by protesters demanding a federal state.

3.  Although nominally a federal state, Yugoslavia has operated essentially as two separate countries for some time.

4.  And a series of institutional changes would transform the EU into a kind of federal state.

5.  Defense and foreign policy, as well as currency and customs, would be controlled by a federal state.

6.  His swing away from a European federal state is a bid for support from the powerful anti-federalists of his own conservative Gaullist party.

7.  If an agreement on a federal state cannot be reached, it may be time to contemplate formal partition.

8.  In a country where religious education is generally obligatory, Berlin is one of only three federal states that have made religion a voluntary subject.

9.  Meanwhile, President Clinton declared a federal state of emergency for New York State Saturday.