Haruf handles human relationships with fierce, reticent delicacy, exploring rage, fidelity, pity, honour, timidity, the sense of obligation; he deals with complex, barely stated moral issues, pushing perhaps towards an unspoken mysticism.
However, this meant some of his Barely states moved into stronger columns, reducing their number.
I know it's hard to accept, but 40 Senators, many of them from states that are barely states, can stop anything.
To put this another way, if Hillary lost all her Barely states (Nevada, Arizona, Florida) and the states which are now tied (Ohio, Georgia), she would still win the race.
Now, it would certainly be nice to see this number get a bit higher by moving some of the Barely states into at least Weak (NV, MO, OH, NC, or FL) to provide Obama a bigger cushion for error on Election Day.
Recasting the paper in this direction (and making it clear that MMPs are elevated by stroke, which is now implied but barely stated), would make the paper much clearer.
If the earthquake that devastated the capital last week has revealed anything else, it is that the country has a weak and barely functioning state and virtually no infrastructure.
But these elections will take place in a barely functioning state: the Taliban insurgency still rages in roughly half the country, where it often wields de facto authority.
In the end, Ukraine may end up barely a state at all.
A security mission established to help East Timor's barely existing state and security institutions ended in 2005.
