If a flag state defaults, then the port state must be given increased responsibility.

In my mind, illegal state aid amounts to little more than state - sponsored social dumping.

It was also agreed that there should be a progressive integration, state by state over ten years.

I state that categorically.

A state of emergency followed.

He has been charged under a secret decree with having betrayed his country.

If only a legislative decree were all it took to change centuries of history.

Confidence cannot be bought by decree -- it has to be earned.

9717 This appeal may be accompanied by a request to suspend the enforcement of the decree.

Wine must remain at a minimum rate of excise duty, a zero rate, and must be taxed by volume.

The error rate should be made explicit so that targets can be set for getting the error rate down.

We say   'yes'   to the agricultural conversion rate and   'no'   to the customs rate.

A zero rate is a specific figure.

Employment is growing at a good rate.

The degree of success is rather modest, then, and the degree of frustration rather high.

It must to some degree be dynamic.

It is measured by the degree of legitimacy.

The situation was explosive to an unimaginable degree.

It provides a degree of flexibility, especially for small companies.

You yourself said that you were requesting a minute and a half in order to make your point of order.

10994 Before we start with the order of business, there are still a number of points of order.

The order in which the secretariat has prepared the vote is the logical and correct order.

First of all in order to arrive at this code of conduct, then in order that it should be effective.

5023 Information is chaos, while knowledge is order: order out of chaos.

The real difficulty is to reconcile the three objectives and rank them in order of importance.