However, once Buddhism was accepted by the court, it received wholesale state sponsorship.

Outside the Mideast, not all terrorist groups operate under state sponsorship.

But if that were the case, he said, the attackers could be acting without state sponsorship.

One is that it constitutes a state sponsorship or establishment of whatever religious beliefs are taught.

Large-scale production, the federal scientist said, would require much equipment, suggesting state sponsorship.

When the government funds expired, Congress let the program continue under state sponsorship until 1943.

The government officially denies any state sponsorship of that, and I want to take them at their word.

We all know that we've had some major differences with Iran in the question of state sponsorship of terrorism.

He said "that does not rule out that it could be state sponsorship."

But he added that it is "very difficult" in general to pin down any state sponsorship of aid to the insurgency here.