The phrase "a halfway state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is not fully developed or complete, often implying a transitional phase.
Example: "The project is currently in a halfway state, and we need to finalize the details before moving forward."
Alternatives: "an intermediate condition" or "a transitional phase".
He refused to meet us halfway," state Republican Party Chairman Kirby Wilbur said.
He also came under fire from watchdogs for taking legal fees from a foundation that ran a halfway house whose state financing he had helped oversee.
Now the European and Ukrainian parliaments have simultaneously ratified the EU-Ukraine association agreement, the EU must help Ukraine to become a halfway properly functioning state.
On Monday, Mr. Trantino's lawyer, Roger Lowenstein, said Mr. Trantino planned to ask the Corrections Department to transfer him to a halfway house out of state.
Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco last week instructed corrections officials to transfer Thomas Trantino, the recently paroled killer of two police officers, to a halfway house in another state.
Mr Powell, in an interview with a London-based Arab paper, al-Hayat, floated a series of ideas, including the creation of the "temporary" Palestinian state, a halfway house on the way to full statehood.
He displays few mementos from the 2000 campaign in his office, which is instead decorated with photographs of Abraham Lincoln (including one from 1860 of Lincoln without a beard) and Theodore Roosevelt and documents signed by James Madison -- whom Mr. Rove summed up as "a great constitutionalist, a halfway decent secretary of state and a lousy president".
It's because 111 Taylor Street is a halfway house for federal and state parolees; guys who don't like cops much.
Mr. DiFrancesco acted two days after Mr. Trantino was released from state prison to a halfway house in Camden.
