But in 2008, having judged that the ultimate power in Russia lay with state energy companies, BP went behind the backs of its private Russian partners to negotiate a deal with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas behemoth.
For Democrats in the state, the ultimate humiliation came when the last great Democratic power-broker, the former lieutenant-governor Bob Bullock, who had dominated Texas politics for four decades, threw his support behind Mr Bush.
The interests of the Free World in general and the United States in particular will suffer from what the Saudis and most of the other attendees have in mind for the Jewish State namely, its dismemberment and ultimate destruction.
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The President made clear last night that he's Commander-in-Chief and he carries ultimate responsibility for everyone in the administration, for the Secretary of State and others.
In its capacity as ultimate landlord, the State distributes the land among its beneficiaries on its own terms.
The right of the state to have the ultimate word on social and environmental issues is embedded in the constitution.
Twice the size of Germany, the Lone Star state is vast: the quest for the ultimate chilli might as well start in its capital.
The ultimate jurors are the constituents in every member's district or state.
His ultimate goal has been the formation of a Kurdish state in Turkey's rural southeast, which has a predominantly Kurdish population.
The ultimate cure for the state-aid addicts does not lie in tinkering with procedures or in giving the commission more power or, indeed, in Brussels at all.
With the exception of a team working at Pennsylvania State University, he stands alone in the pursuit of what may be the ultimate feat of bioengineering, (see table).
Like Europe, the ultimate price for the growing corporate state will be paid by the American consumer (in the form of higher prices, reduced choice, and foregone innovation), and the American taxpayer, who is already facing an enormous bill from the direct subsidy of favored constituents.
It is the ultimate swing state, a place where voters have managed to side with the winning candidate in every presidential election over the last half-century.
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As for sales of health insurance across state lines, I wonder when people are going to figure out that this is the ultimate in false solutions.
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The Supreme Court in Delhi, which so mistrusts the state that it has become a maker and enforcer of law as well as its ultimate interpreter, now monitors such transfers.
And I reiterated and we discussed in depth the principles that I laid out yesterday -- the belief that our ultimate goal has to be a secure Israeli state, a Jewish state, living side by side in peace and security with a contiguous, functioning and effective Palestinian state.
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