The Eastern states of Australia refers to the states adjoining the east coast of Australia. These are the mainland states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the island ...
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Electoral reform in the United States refers to efforts make changes the U.S. electoral system and American elections. Currently, the U.S. uses a single member district plurality ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_reform_in_the_United_States

Five Hus and Sixteen States' refers to the sixteen regimes set up by five ethnic minorities in the northern area of China.
http://travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/jin/sixteen.htm

United States" refers to the United States Department of Justice. C. "Plaintiffs" refers to both plaintiff parties--the United States and the Private Plaintiffs. D. "Disability" and ...
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/housing/documents/habcsettle.pdf

From the United States (for the purposes of this chapter, the term United States refers to the 50 states and the District of Columbia), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the ...
http://pe.usps.gov/text/Imm/immc5_003.htm

Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space. The term refers to all real objects in the natural world, such as marbles, rocks, ice crystals, oxygen gas, water, hair, and ...
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ma-Mu/Matter-States-of.html

So, "contiguous Unitied States" refers the the parts of the country that share borders (thus, Washington DC is included by definition). "Continental" is wrong.
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The so called ten states refers to the nine kingdoms existing in the southern areas of China and one kingdom named Latter Han in the northern ...
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/five_dynasty/

... refers to migration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country .   Illegal immigration to the United States refers to the act of ...
http://www.citizensforlegalcommunities.org/

United States refers to the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and all territories. "Expenditures" refers ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/bulletins/b99-02.html

April 2005 Sudan: U.N. Refers Darfur to International Criminal Court; United States: Supreme Court Abolishes Juvenile Death Penalty; Democratic Republic of Congo
http://www.hrw.org/update/2005/04/

Change refers to the appreciation of the United States Dollar against the listed foreign currencies. A positive number refers to appreciation, a negative number refers to ...
http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/USD/analysis.html

... and by the United States for the benefit of Indian reservations and other federal establishments within the State; (D) "Regulatory structures controlled by the United States" refers to ...
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/08Orig.pdf

Review: An Inconvenient Truth What we say Al Gore, the man who used to be "the next President of the United States", refers to it as an inconvenient truth - if we continue to..
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No. 009 The Embassy of the United States of America refers the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland to the Ministry's Note (UTNO1020318/65.D.611) dated March 1, 2002 concerning ...
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/70092.pdf

... and by the United States for the benefit of Indian reservations and other federal establishments within the state; (D) "Regulatory structures controlled by the United States" refers ...
http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g1000/pdfiles/supctdec.pdf

... or third parties from whom such information has been ultimately received by or taken into the custody, possession or dominion of the United States. The phrase "United States" refers ...
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NSASubpoena.pdf

Occupation of Baltic Republics: The occupation of the Baltic states refers to the occupation of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) first by the Soviet Union under ...
http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/Occupation-of-the-Baltic-states

Background. The term Southern American English (also known as Southern States English) refers to a number of varieties of English spoken in many of the southern States, including ...
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/%7Elsp/Southern.html

Often, it is a matter of "semantics" whether a  statement a vision, or Most typically, when Middle States refers to a  philosophy statement ,  a longer statement is ...
http://www.css-msa.org/pdfs/Standards_for_Career_Tech_with_Indicators.pdf