"The state objects to holding this ceremony, which is intended to validate the removal of Patriarch Irineos, a move that has not been recognised by the State of Israel, as is required by law, " he said in a letter obtained by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

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Clinton and Blair were introducing individual market mechanisms into an overall state structure, foreign objects into a preexisting beast, in a way that aimed to tame the worst excesses of each system, but did not radically redefine either.

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The Constitutional Court has ruled that crucifixes must be banished from state classrooms if even one parent objects.

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Rivers flowing to the sea, a flame reaching upward, a bird homing: these movements all represent objects yearning to be their true selves, to achieve their true state.

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If the natural objects of your bounty are already wed and living in an all-property state, make all distributions or gifts a "mere expectancy"--or less.

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The company blog didn't reveal to what degree the ban was mandated by the FBI, saying only that "Linden Lab and Second Life residents must comply with state and federal laws applicable to regulated online gambling" and threatening to remove players and objects from the game that violate the new policy.

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But the State Department has similar five-year bilateral agreements with eight other countries, restricting importation of objects like pre-Columbian masks from Bolivia, Khmer statues from Cambodia and historic terra cotta sculptures from Mali.

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The game was developed with a state-of-the-art, proprietary game engine called Grognok that can deploy and edit terrain, objects, maps as well as lighting and audio.

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