1.  Nor does this case involve any accredited representative of a foreign state in this country.

2.  Counterintelligence experts say racial focusing is not uncommon in spy investigations because foreign intelligence services often target people who may have sympathies with foreign states.

3.  If the attack was clearly launched by a foreign state, the generals might get busy retaliating.

4.  The law gives plaintiffs a chance to collect a judgment if they can locate assets of the foreign state in the United States.

5.  The new rules will enable the pension funds to invest in infrastructure projects abroad and participate in the sale of companies by foreign states.

6.  The problem, some regulators said, was foreign states that ignored quotas and fishing agreements.

7.  The ruling against Iran was the first time a foreign state had been held liable in a U.S. court for a terrorist act committed outside the United States.

8.  The United States began tightening its export of microbes from germ banks to foreign states more than a decade ago.

9.  A Palestinian professor arrested in July after discussing corruption in the Palestinian Authority with students was charged Tuesday with illegal contacts with a foreign state.

10.  Addressing high-ranking officials of the ruling Baath Party on Thursday, Saddam said Broughton was acting on behalf of intelligence services of foreign states.