Your state may have governed it, but it was real enough in its fashion.

The state governed such social classes until imperial Sican conquered the kingdom of Lambayeque.

Noting that this is the fashion in which other states governed their schools.

Zwingli believed that the state governed with divine sanction.

We share a belief that states must govern their own educational enterprises.

One state for both peoples governed by a representative democracy and on an equal footing.

We fought our great war for independence just completed so that our states could govern themselves as they thought best.

A state governed by a few persons.

A task force appointed by Governor Pataki has recommended letting market forces, rather than the state, govern rates that insurers pay hospitals.

There are "states governed by the rule-of-law", but there are no "human rights", if we understand the term literally.