The music is in a constant state of becoming, a metaphor for the ceaseless activity that Mr Carter observed in contemporary America.
The Beaver State is in danger of becoming the Suicide State.
The first politician Al Gore mentioned in the eulogy to his father was a former congressman from middle Tennessee who "made all the families in this part of the country proud" by becoming secretary of state under Franklin D.
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In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics.
In 1996, Ruth Perry was chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia's ruling council, thus becoming Africa's first woman head of state.
Even before this year's troubles, Gujarat was becoming a state of ghettos.
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New York is hoping to go from spending more money on Medicaid than any other state to becoming a model of efficiency for the nation.
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In both cases, this involved polygamy among Mormons, first when Lincoln banned bigamy in 1862 (the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act) and again in 1890 when the federal government insisted Utah outlaw polygamy as a condition of becoming a state.
Charity is one way of supplementing the services provided by the state, which are becoming ever harder to finance out of taxation.
Among Christian Democrats, only Kurt Biedenkopf, the 70-year-old premier of the eastern state of Saxony (who may still have an outside chance of becoming the party's stop-gap leader), is more liked in the country at large.
Mr Kerry is making his first trip to Asia since becoming secretary of state.
He has met with Abbas and Netanyahu several times already to that end since becoming secretary of state.
Hillary Clinton is said to be weighing the option of becoming secretary of state against staying in the Senate.
" Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state, " he said.
In a referendum, Puerto Ricans voted in favour of becoming the 51st US state, if Congress approves the move.
Unlike many other prosecutors in the state, Jackson, who had ambitions of becoming a judge, was personally opposed to capital punishment.
For the first time, the debate was not about moral imperatives, but plain national interest: the threat of Congo becoming another failed state.
Zubeidat took classes at the Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, before becoming a state-licensed aesthetician.
Tenacious, pragmatic and determined, Ms Gordillo began her union activities in the state of Mexico in the early 1970s, eventually becoming the protege of local union leader, Carlos Jonguitud Barrios.
But if we continue to move in the direction of becoming a European-style welfare state, it will be impossible to have a good tax system.
They had relied upon Ruggiero as a counterweight and now he has gone they fear Italy, one of the founding fathers of the EU, becoming a maverick state.
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During the political upheavals on Crete that led to the island becoming part of the modern Greek state, Evans's position as a landowner helped ensure Knossos remained free from encroachment.
Besides being attorney-general, he is also a rancher and small-business owner, and his call to allow cheap drug imports from Canada goes down well in a state where the cost of medicine for elderly voters is becoming an important election issue.
Now, by becoming part of the city-state government in Berlin, which straddles east and west, the party is hoping to win acceptance at last as a normal part of Germany's body politic, rather than be dismissed as a regional oddity, doomed to fade away as east and west grow closer together.
The Solomon Islands faces the prospect of becoming the Pacific's first failed state.
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State or city takeovers of "failing schools" are also becoming increasingly common.
The complex deepwater drilling recently perfected by Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled company, has suddenly raised the prospect of Brazil becoming one of the world's biggest producers.
"It's becoming clear to many that the secretary of state has balanced the budget on the backs of our brave servicemen and women, " Mr Jones told the Commons.
New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.
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