1.  In unitary states, governments must evaluate the trade-off between higher taxes and higher welfare benefits.

2.  The major advantage of a unitary state is the presence of clear, hierarchical authority.

3.  ...a call for the creation of a single unitary state.

4.  The Republic of Indonesia is a unitary state in which executive power resides in a President who governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet.

5.  The third feature of the Constitution that I have listed -- that the United Kingdom is a unitary state -- is a less difficult one to comprehend.

6.  Equally, the count is highly sensitive for the government of President Kiro Gligorov, which is committed to a unitary Macedonian state.

7.  The only other modern federal state, the United States, had just finished a bloody civil war and many legislators originally favored a unitary state.

8.  The Turkish and Kurdish peoples, he insisted, could live together in a unitary state with a federal system similar to that of Spain or the United States.

9.  Twice before, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic has signed agreements on the division of his country, only to fight on for the unitary state of which he dreams.

10.  Deby finally bowed to pressure from France, the former colonial power, and agreed to a March referendum in which Chadians decided in favor of a unitary state.