If Ball is ultimately lyrical, Marq de Villiers is political, and he's not happy about the state of things.
"The control over what people communicate is lost and we have to adapt to this new state of things, " he said via e-mail.
Her manager and co-workers harass her about her non-voting ways, saying that if she doesn't vote, she doesn't have the right to complain about the state of things.
In the meantime, it is for the rest of us to shine a light on proceedings, and on what they say about the state of things - and of things to come - in the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
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The only reason why it might not pass the Senate is because a minority of Republicans, led by the Republican leader, would filibuster that bill -- a pretty stark indication of the state of things when a bill that has majority support is blocked by a minority, when that bill would avert the problem that we have confronting us with this imminent deadline.
Mr. MELOY: You know, you see heads of state and things like that in centuries bygone riding around in those boxes where there's two people on either side sort of carrying him along.
And I think the Secretary of State was clear on a number of these things over the weekend.
Mr. JOHN TIRMAN (Author, "Spoils of War"): Now it is some of these things that the state is objecting to, the insulting of Ataturk, the likening of him to Mussolini, the criticism of Turkey's extreme forms of nationalism.
And there are a couple of interesting things about the dynamic of the state.
"It doesn't necessarily work on every building, and the grading and state of their roofs might make things difficult, " he said.
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In that sense it - like the latest Argon-argon dating paper in Science - is just a snapshot, a moment in time detailing the state of our knowledge on all things relating to dinosaurs.
You know, the doctor is going to not only know about the state of the science about these things, but they also know the patient's medical history and are, I think, a very important component here of helping to give clear, simple messages about what people can do about it.
It gives a graphic representation to the idea that, rather than being at a different end of a spectrum from a structured state, disorder is at the very center of things, with ordered and un-ordered states around it.
One of the most difficult things to grasp in state taxation is the concept of domicile.
Interactive puts a lot of geeks together in a few blocks of the Texas state capital, and that does strange things to the ecosystem of any application.
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But I can do something about the way we do things in the state of Iowa.
Keep in mind that the fiscal health of Western democracies, all other things being equal, depends on the state of their economies.
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Most people know whether they are Republican or Democrat, and little things like the state of the economy or the candidate will not change their minds.
Their discussions indicate that they are very uncertain about the state of aggregate demand and that they are beefing up their toolbox of things they can do if things falter more than they expect.
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One of the most important things about conflict zones is the weakness of the state and therefore the difficulty for international organizations or donors who seek to work with or via the state.
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Since I had a chance to go over a certain amount of these things with many of you on the day of the State of the Union and many of the details will be later, let me just do a sketch of the overall approach.
Then look at your home-state plan, focusing on just two things: the expense ratio and the availability of a state tax deduction.
It had been years since the state of New York repaired any of these things.
Yes, the country is in a lot of danger fiscally, but not so much that another term from Christie as Governor of the Garden State would materially change things.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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Indeed, many nationalists see the establishment of such things as a Scottish Broadcasting Corporation and a Scottish welfare state as the whole point of independence.
The Obama administration has done a few things to advance this happy state of affairs.
By ignoring them, and driving jobs out of the state, Brown is only making things worse.
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But there are two things wrong with the present state of affairs.
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