Such a state of affairs might not have been noticed in the old days, but not today.
In Western Europe, such a state of affairs is barely 50 years old.
It is a state of affairs that has taken almost everyone by surprise, including the managers of the respective clubs.
And - as the administration's critics make clear - such a state of affairs would be antithetical to US national interests.
Such a state of affairs will persist unless and until experimental American rockets being developed by private American concerns pan out.
So Iraq has yet to export any oil produced since the war, a state of affairs that has buoyed the oil price.
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Such a state of affairs, he said, had existed in the past, existed in the present and threatened to continue in the future.
If it does, such an advantage probably pertains only when psychopaths are in the minority (a state of affairs known to biologists as a balanced polymorphism).
Such a state of affairs in the latter half of the twentieth century led to the endless series of proxy wars that defined the Cold War era.
Mr Lapid called for a more equitable system of national service, ending exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox community - a state of affairs to which there is growing opposition in Israel.
It is a state of affairs where people seem to believe that the validity of their views is determined by the strength by which they hold them not by any reference to empiricism.
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On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.
He insisted in testimony before the Senate last week that "failure" meant that no effort had been made to prevent such attacks or to penetrate the cells of those who might carry them out -- a state of affairs that clearly did not pertain.
There are moments when music and lyrics bear only the faintest relation to each other, a tricky state of affairs in a work that is almost bereft of spoken dialogue.
Speaking of airports... (See what we did there?) Waiting in line for any kind of transit -- airport security, the subway, the bus, (insert other ring of hell here) -- can be a maddening state of affairs.
It is a sad state of affairs that there are people who defend this behaviour.
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Is that, as most people in Washington appear to think, a deplorable state of affairs?
And that silence is a dangerous state of affairs for the larger dialogue around reform.
Three years on they now seem to have decided that this was not a good state of affairs.
Is this not a preferable state of affairs and expenditure to that scourge with which the nation is now afflicted?
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"To end up back in this country without an expedition on the horizon is a deadly state of affairs, " he said.
She says that this is all she has been asked to do, and that in my mind is a dreadful state of affairs.
He went on to say that they were concerned over the regulatory standards over these faulty breast implants which he said was "not a satisfactory state of affairs".
It is a depressing state of affairs when about two-thirds of our fellow citizens are caught in an economic trap that is wrecking their lives financially and emotionally.
Since the consultant is generally relied upon for advice on all major investment issues, having a consultant who has not been subjected to a rigorous due diligence is a frightening state of affairs.
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This is not a healthy state of affairs, and it is one that science must address, both by engaging more with the wider world and by pursuing the globalisation of science more vigorously than ever.
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The fact is we planned very fully to deal with these contingencies which are here now, and we have a system which in a very unsatisfactory state of affairs, a fire strike, is as robust as it could be.
Speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the situation as "a completely unacceptable state of affairs" and called for an urgent investigation by Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA).
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