The latest development, like earlier ones, has left some advocates of state rights sputtering.

This development left the British in a particularly bad position.

And leaders for Eskimo communities said that although they benefited from the oil industry, development was leaving deep scars on their culture.

The development left the talks for a new collective-bargaining agreement in an uncertain state.

But the development of the crisis has left distinct questions about the real state and role of the military.

But technological developments since 1968-71 have left farmers far more sanguine than they were.

This development leaves no further doubt where the endowment is heading.

This development has left him stunned, one moment sympathetic to his wife's position and the next disbelieving that they can't work it out.

Earlier technological developments left their mark on the language.

If there were no controls, development could leave wells dry.