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The plural form of state, referring to organized political communities under one government or the various conditions or modes of being of something.

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  • It's July in the deserts of Nevada in the western United States. The hottest time of the year.

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  • but many are in the states of madhia Pradesh Rajasthan harana and utar Pradesh before the women were driven into sex work these ethnic groups worked mainly as performers dancers jugglers acrobats and magicians because of their work and way of life the British colonial power viewed these ethnic

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  • The relationship between Iran and the rest of the Gulf states has been very tense ever since the revolution started in 1979.

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  • A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran.

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  • They want to hit the key infrastructure in the Gulf Arab states.

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  • You can see it moving up the eastern seaboard of the United States.

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  • an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and it's also one of the 50 states of the US. I've been there about six or seven times; I don't remember how many exactly. It's definitely one of my favorite places in the world. Hawaii has plenty of really beautiful beaches and the lifestyle there is slow and calm. But even though Hawaii is one of my favourite places to travel to,

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  • states because we deny statehood; there are stateless people, and that's a terrible thing. But those stateless people are in the command of some state somewhere. And so, you have to live in a state, and that means that the part of morality which needs to take into account the ethical situation of everybody in the world, but especially your fellow citizens, is paying attention to what's

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  • thoughts. One is that everybody has a set of rights which they're entitled to and which states have to respect, but also other people have to respect. And the other is that society needs to be organized in such a way as to—now I'm going to differ from Rawls a little bit, well maybe a lot, but anyway—society needs to be organized in such a way that everybody has a decent shot at a dignified human life. Those are the two central

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  • states. It shouldn't ignore the fact that someone isn't the citizen of your state; that doesn't mean they aren't also entitled to a dignified existence. But because the measure of flourishing is different for different people, that will mean different things to different people. If I am a Catholic, I need access to priests and churches, but I'm not a Catholic, so I don't need access to Catholic priests and

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  • responsibility for the life and the justice of our own society. But we still have to play our part in ensuring that all states respect the rights and meet the needs of their citizens. If they cannot, then all of us—through our nations if they will do it, and in spite of them if they will not—share the collective obligation to change those states. And if the reason they fail their citizens is they lack resources,

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  • currency of goodness and badness. It was terribly wrong that slaves were worked to death building the pyramids, or for that matter building the United States, but it's not therefore terrible that those things were made. Not all values have a single measure. If the founders of this nation had dealt with only the most urgent problem facing them—and let us suppose that that was indeed slavery—they would almost

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  • servicing to the United States than they receive in aid, and in turn, much of that aid really takes the form, as a result, of debt relief. Only a fraction of American foreign assistance is specifically targeted at helping the extremely poor. These negative facts, however, obscure other things—both for better and for worse—that America does. Just to go on the debit side, US tariffs cost the tsunami-affected countries

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  • Iran has retaliated, which means fought back, with attacks against Arab states in the Gulf which are allied with the US, such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

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  • The United States and Israel are continuing to carry out airstrikes in Iran after war broke out on Saturday.

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  • Allies of US in the Gulf bear brunt of Iran attacks. So this headline is about Iran's attacks on the US-allied states in the Gulf.

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  • We are burning these things up and the United States is losing its ability to protect ourselves or to go to war in the first place, which is probably for the better overall.

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  • I feel like he's just so deep in a hole that he's very very detached from this war and is just pissed off because the Iranians have had a strategy of getting maximum concessions from the United States.

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  • They said, "We will target the infrastructure of the American Zionist enemy, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, and the Gulf States."

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