Then,as the American Civil War began, the Virginia state government voted to rebel against the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Thurlow Weed, one of the important Whig leaders in the state of New York, remembered how the people had loved Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

But,he said, he could not make war on his home state.

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after it endorsed the Goldstone Report accusing the Jewish state of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last December and January.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Another veteran made headlines recently when he resigned from the State Department in protest of the war in Afghanistan.

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Most said they would accept a two-state solution based on borders before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

According to the group's report, only another war-ravaged state, Somalia,is perceived as being more corrupt.

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The former state-owned carrier once symbolized the strength of the country's post-war economic boom.

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John Mueller monitors public opinion on the war at Ohio State University.

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He was referring to a resolution by the U.N.Human Rights Council last week which approved the Goldstone Report, accusing the Jewish state of war crimes during the Gaza conflict last December and January.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

Mr.Obama,a day after brokering the first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the Gaza war late last year, said the United States will continue its pursuit of a two state solution to the Middle East conflict.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Stratfor was one of several organizations earlier this year warning that Mexico could become a failed state if it does not win the war against the criminal elements that hold sway over some areas of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization facing divisions over the war in Afghanistan and advanced economies struggling for a united approach on climate change, the Secretary of State urged alliance states to again summon the resolve and idealism that won the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09