To the European competition authorities, it is arguing that the closure of private-sector nuclear plants unfairly boosts the dominant market position of the state-owned utility, Vattenfall.

ECONOMIST: Energy policy

What is sometimes less noticed is that the congressional Republicans are falling over themselves to make the state governors the dominant force in the party as a whole.

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So the dominant pattern is the breakaway state has to begin by applying for admission to the UN and in the case of the EU it would be the EU as well.

BBC: Scotland politics

About 100 interagency emails released last Wednesday, the tip of a proverbial iceberg, show that there was extensive back-and-forth debate between the State Department and CIA regarding those revisions, with State playing the dominant role.

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But when the new government wanted to replace managers, it showed that the state was in reality a dominant owner.

ECONOMIST: Privatisation in Europe

And his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, is not a dominant figure in the tradition of John Foster Dulles or Henry Kissinger.

ECONOMIST: Foreign policy

However, high school associations are also noticing their state championship attendance plummeting because of the same dominant private programs playing, and winning, year after year.

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"In the 18th Century, that model of religious tolerance based on a state with diverse cultures, but no single dominant religion, became a model for the founding fathers, " said Mr Raby.

BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson

Although a source of inspiration for European and American philosophers, the state model created by Cyrus, based on diverse cultures, but no single dominant religion, was only picked up on in the 18th Century United States.

BBC: Cyrus Cylinder: How a Persian monarch inspired Jefferson