The Hindu nationalist BJP, which currently holds power in the state and is the main opposition party at the national level, got just 40 seats, the same as the Janata Dal (Secular), a local party in Karnataka.
He says that his party's campaign will take up issues such as the shortages of electricity and drinking water in the state, and adds that the main theme of the election is the caste of the candidate, rather than the communal divide.
Most French newspapers and television channels are owned by corporations that count the state as their main, and sometimes only, client.
Texas's importance as America's leading trading state, and one of its main distribution centres, is bound to grow.
The state is the main employer and therefore the main benefactor.
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Much of it has gone on improvements to the state capital's metro and its main arterial roads.
State and federal health organizations are investigating Main Street Family Pharmacy, LLC, in Newbern, Tennessee, and its preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, or MPA, a steroid product used for a range of conditions.
We need state and local politicians to think outside of their party affiliation and facilitate a Main Street business environment that encourages the local barbershop, restaurants, manufacturing plants, and other businesses to create and invent the products and services that will change lives and communities for the better.
Public-sector jobs, state hand-outs and pensions are the main sources of income for most households.
Some big nonprofits also made the list, including both of the Mayo Clinic's main hospitals and Ohio State University's hospital.
The city of Berlin and the state of Brandenburg are the main parties involved in the construction of the airport, with the German federal government also footing part of the bill.
Okay, with these two meanings in mind, in fact, in the same document, there is also the stipulation which is - which has been in the past, the old defunct constitution about Islam being the religion - the religion of state and the principles of shariah being the main source of legislation.
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Shaheen says the Mecca talks will produce a long-term truce only if Hamas makes a clear ideological and financial break with its main sponsor, Iran, and embraces the two-state solution political platform of Fatah.
She carried none of the counties in the east of the state, where the main concerns are agriculture and hydroelectric dams.
The other is the Telegu Desam Party, which rules Andhra Pradesh and whose main opponent in the state's assembly election next year will be Congress.
People are sledding down city side streets that remain blanketed in white as official state and local transportation departments work on getting the main roads cleared.
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On Tuesday night, the court agreed with lawyers for Haasan - the big-budget film's director, producer and main star - that the state government's move was unconstitutional.
Family pig farms in Iowa, the main hog-producing state (and the second-largest farm state after California), used to have up to 500 sows, each producing about 20 piglets a year.
In 1927 Ralph Peer, a producer with The Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a recording studio on its main drag, State Street, and by the end of that year he had recorded 19 performers.
The basic decisions were made by then President Bush and his secretary of state and national security adviser (interestingly, the main sceptic at the time was Mr Cheney, who argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union was not against America's global interests).
Whatever the truth, many people will remember this week's reshuffle as the one in which Mr Hague sacked his deputy for saying that the state must be the main provider of health and education, a proposition which Mr Hague happens to believe in too.
The effort, led by senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN), could finally resolve what has been an increasingly ugly battle among on-line mega-retailers such as Amazon.com, big box stores such as Best Buy, local Main Street retailers, and state tax collectors.
The highly contentious issue of Israeli construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- land the Palestinians seek for a future state -- is one of the main sticking points preventing the resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Opinion polls and recent state elections show that support for both main parties continues to ebb.
That will make a few densely populated counties in each swing state the main battleground for the fall campaign, and the most important will be Fairfax County in Virginia.
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The Middle Easterners reject western colonialism and western influence, making the State of Israel their main scapegoat.
The main sticking point is a collection of state and federal laws that make it difficult for car companies to terminate a dealer franchise.
The two attackers were killed in a gunfight but haven't yet been identified, said Ahafadul Mujtaba, the director inspector general of police in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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The difficulty of matching income to spending in a way that does not make politicians look in thrall to a few wealthy donors has led all three main parties to call for more state funding and a lower cap on election spending.
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazier helped negotiate the deal between the government and the main rebel group in Darfur.
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