Europe's nations are at loggerheads, Germany is in a state of outrage, and the link between the euro and the nation state is more fraught than ever.
It is my opinion that the White House cannot be solely responsible for the state of the nation.
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The couple were joined in a civil union in Vermont in 2000, shortly after the state passed the nation's first civil-union law.
Mr Osborne and Mr Alexander briefed the cabinet on the plans on Tuesday morning, which will be confirmed in the Autumn Statement, when Mr Osborne updates MPs on the state of the nation's finances.
But in his update to the House of Commons on the state of the nation's finances, Mr Osborne announced that the UK economy was now forecast to shrink by a worse than expected 0.1% this year.
The information from Twitter comes from all sorts of places: from official agencies such as the Colorado Springs Fire Department to people in and near the city sharing what they're witnessing with other people around the state and the nation.
Power is now moving, increasingly, beyond the confines of the nation state and is rapidly making many of its institutions irrelevant.
It was developed as a response to the needs of the nation state in the early days of the industrial revolution.
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During the past six decades German politicians have told the Germans that the nation state, and especially Germany, was so dangerous that it had to be emasculated.
State Senator GELLER: We are the biggest swing state in the nation.
In April 2010, Maryland became the first state in the nation to allow companies to register as benefit corporations.
We will be the first state in the nation to measure student achievement against that of the rest of the world.
This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
This sounds like enough to do, but Colorado is the fittest state in the nation, so visitors might want some outdoor recreation.
"New York will become the first state in the nation to require our hospitals to adopt best practices for the early identification and treatment of sepsis, " he said.
Silicon Valley stands as a prime example that this century will not be defined by the classic notion of the nation state, but rather by the regionalization of cities as the hubs of economic development.
Last month, Democratic Governor Neil Abercrombie signed S.B. 570, making Hawaii the first state in the nation to place a dollar cap on the itemized deductions that better off taxpayers can claim.
"If New York acts, it would be the first state in the nation, and turbocharge efforts nationally, " said Blair Horner, vice president of advocacy at the American Cancer Society and Cancer Action Network of New York and New Jersey.
Vermont is the only state in the nation that has the ability to block the relicensing of a nuclear plant, a condition it insisted on when the plant changed hands in 2002, and the state's legislature may do just that during its January session.
Diplomacy arises out of the fundamental character of the nation-state system, with its basic assumption that nation-states are autonomous, often divergent in their interests and unequal in their power.
"The current approach is to let the nation state apply its own instruments, but we urge more common actions, " he said.
When she visited Mississippi three years ago, it had just been declared the most obese state in the nation, she said.
As word spread last week of Rifqa's plight - and the prospect that her return to Ohio could be a death sentence - there was an outpouring of sympathy in the state and around the nation.
That meant addressing the issues that matter to people today - so we became the party of the environment and well-being as well as the nation state.
The spirit of political liberty cannot flourish outside the body of the nation-state.
Less than a year into office, Culver is making a serious case for Iowa--already the leading ethanol producing state in the nation--to become the leader in wind power as well.
Though California's 54 electoral votes are the most of any state in the nation, its impact on choosing presidential nominees has been minimized over the years as the nominations are usually wrapped up earlier in the primary season, before Californians vote.
Specifically, he's proposing a November ballot initiative raising the state's top income tax rate to 12.3%, making it the nation's highest, and raising the basic state sales tax rate, already the nation's highest, to 7.75% from 7.25%.
It provides environmental data on 1, 700 firms, and in September helped the Florida state treasury launch the nation's first review of the financial impact of climate change on investments.
Mr Putin put the initiative at the heart of his annual state of the nation address in December.
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