Four states in the United States officially designate themselves as " commonwealths ".

This understanding is reflected by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, who states that the Four Noble Truths are best understood not as beliefs, but as categories of experience.

The Federal German government thus agreed to the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany ( Two Plus Four Agreement ), which officially re-established both German states ' sovereignty.

Four out of 10 employees work in the services sector, a relatively high proportion of whom are foreigners, including those who commute across the border from the neighboring states of Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

The states New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the northwestern corner of New Mexico.

In several episodes in the Four Gospels Jesus foretells his coming death and resurrection, which he states is the plan of God the Father.

It is said to be one of the " Four Tigers " of rising Asian states along with Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

* 1990 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the duties states have to each other, as well as those the federal government has to the states.

Article Four also provides for the admission of new states and the changing of state boundaries.

The Visegrád Group, also called the Visegrád Four or V4, is an alliance of four Central European states – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for the purposes of cooperation and furthering their European integration.

** Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

At the onset of his inaugural term in 1949, then-President of the United States Harry S. Truman assembled an advisory group to suggest ways to accomplish his Point Four Program, of which a significant component was an effort to strengthen developing countries, especially those nearest to the Eastern Bloc, to dissuade them from aligning with other communist states.

Although representatives from all the states which had participated in the wars were invited, the principal negotiations were conducted by the " Big Four " ( Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Austria ) and, later on, royalist France.

The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.

It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to this area being called the Four Corners region.

Circling the point, with two words in each state, the disk reads, " Four states here meet in freedom under God.

In 2007, President Chen proposed a policy of Four Wants and One Without, which in substance states that Taiwan wants independence ; Taiwan wants the rectification of its name ; Taiwan wants a new constitution ; Taiwan wants development ; and Taiwanese politics is without the question of left or right, but only the question of unification or independence.

Four states ( Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York ) ban the sale of all consumer fireworks including novelties and sparklers by the general public.

These four states are called the Four Western Clans or Satchotohi for short.

* Four US states named counties in his honor: Colorado, Idaho, Iowa and Wyoming.

Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, will allocate $ 22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge project – creating a pedestrian and bicycle path to link Louisville and Jeffersonville.

Farmington serves as the commercial hub for most of northwestern New Mexico and the Four Corners region of four states.

Four of the candidates who stood for election for the Division of Chifley at the 2007 Federal election address electors at a public meeting in Shalvey on 11 November 2007.

Four hundred seats are voted on using proportional representation while the remaining forty-four are elected in local majority votes.

Four Green MPs and one Social Democrat voted against the government, but Schröder was still able to command a majority.

Four weeks later, 99 % of Austrians voted in favour of the annexation ( Anschluss ) of their country Austria to the German Reich.

On the Channel Four ' Best and Worst Places to Live ', It was voted as the worst area to live in England.

Four Labour MPs who defected to the SDP in early 1981 said they voted against Healey to land the Labour Party with an unelectable left-wing leader and so help their new party.

Four of the band's biggest hits have been voted Legendary Michigan Songs: " Crimson & Clover " in 2010, and " Hanky Panky ", " I Think We're Alone Now ", and " Mony Mony " in 2011.

Four members voted to cut public funding for the party, while the court's chairman voted against closing it down.

Four voted against it while 11 abstained.

At the Final Five, Strobel was voted out, but Morasca won the next immunity, protecting her in the vote of the Final Four.

Four ValleyCats were voted to play in the game: first baseman Phil Disher, left fielder Jack Shuck, pitcher Philip Rummel, and center fielder Thomas Steele.

Four departments ( Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija ) voted for greater autonomy in 2005, and without constitutional authorization, passed statutes of autonomy in 2008.

In his junior season with Kansas, Hinrich, along with power forward Nick Collison, led the Jayhawks to the Final Four, and was voted onto the All-Big 12 Second Team by coaches and the media.

Four years later, he was featured in a Town & Country article about young royals and was voted the most stylish royal man by the readers of the Hello magazine.

Four Republicans opposed all four articles, while five Democrats voted for three of them and one Democrat for all four.

Article Four of the United States Constitution gives the Congress power to grant statehood ; the House of Representatives last voted on D. C. statehood in November 1993 and the proposal was defeated by a vote of 277 to 153.

Four years after his death, Terry Knight and The Pack were voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.

The wedding was filmed for Four Weddings, a reality TV show where four couples compete to have theirs voted the best wedding ; hers came third.

Paspalj was voted the Euroleague Final Four MVP but the vote took place at half-time in the final, with Olympiacos seemingly headed for victory.

* Four members of the House of Delegates, three men and one woman voted against the bill.

In a 2001 poll for Four Four Two magazine, Crook was voted as one of the best players never to have played for England, along with his former Norwich team-mate Steve Bruce.

Four teams — the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Mets — attempted to defeat the proposal, but they failed to convince a majority of teams, and in the end only the Cardinals voted against it.

Four of the Squadron were in favor of performing no disciplinary treatment ( feeling his shame and regret were enough ), one voted for B-Moding him, and four members were in favor of expelling the Archer.