Sentence examples for minor states from inspiring English sources

Congress has won in only three minor states.

If a few minor states drop out of the commitment, so be it.

In 1996 Mr Forbes entered the primaries late, and spent his way to victory in two minor states.

The remaining Semitic states, such as the state of Ashur, became minor states within the sphere of influence of the new states of the Kassites and the Hurrians/Mitanni.

Several minor states were so small that they had little political influence; these included the republic of Lucca as well as several duchies that remained under the control of local noble families the duchies of Modena, Reggio, and Ferrara under the Este family; the duchy of Mantua and Montferrat under the Gonzagas, and the duchy of Parma and Piacenza under the Farnese.

Iowa and New Hampshire will retain their "first in the nation status", but out will go the traditional two month meander through minor states, and in will come a three week cross- country dash where candidates will have to be in many more than two places at once.

This week's blog by blog is in a minor state of shock.

Of noble origin, the Meng family settled in the state of Zou, a minor state in the present province of Shantung.

In many cases, people arrested on relatively minor state criminal charges, for which they would normally have been quickly allowed out on bail, have been denied bond.

A minor state judge and Communist Party member, Wanda Gruz (Agata Kulesza) tells her niece that her real name is Ida Lebenstein, and that she's Jewish — a "Jewish nun," she says.

The need for court supervision of the final count between Mr. Bush and Vice President Al Gore goes beyond curbing the hubris of a minor state officeholder placed by fate at the hinge of history.