They already have several minor states in their effective control.

He was perceived to be from an impoverished and undistinguished minor state, barely larger than a small English county.

Besides these seven major states, some minor states also survived into the period.

He also conquered some other minor states and had their people resettled.

On the south was the minor state of Jhalawan.

That left 327 minor states, which were unrepresented.

Red Croatia, to the south, was land of a few minor states.

Both likely for Romney, but both are minor states with few delegates.

What the Danish lawsuit has done is send some teams into a minor state of shock.

Throughout its vast extent, nearly a quarter of the earth, there were fewer armed men than would be found necessary by a minor Balkan state.