The state has already ruled that the tigers cannot stay where they are.

The state ruled in March that it could be built without an environmental impact study.

The state, not the market, still rules the media in China.

Some lawyers say the state could still rule differently in other cases.

The return cannot be permitted until the soil is relocated, the state has ruled.

Can the federal court hear the case once the state has ruled on the merits of the constitutional issue?

It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military.

In no case can a state ruled by law be built with laws that permit racial, religious or political discrimination.

Eight other states had not yet ruled on the proposal.

A socialist one-party state ruled the country from 1977 to 1993.