No surprise, then, that the bright-red plastic seats of the brand-new Karaiskaki Stadium — which is across the metro tracks from the volleyball arena, the equally state-of-the-art Peace and Friendship Stadium — were barely a third full for the first-round match between Iraq and Costa Rica.
That is, earlier states of the world can be seen as fixing all later states; but equally, later states can be seen as fixing all earlier states.
Young Marius Moonston is suddenly a question unto himself: plunged into religious doubt in a country in an equally sudden state of turmoil.
It is the headquarters of Egypt's equally bulbous state bureaucracy, three million strong.
Genuine lack or loss of religious belief is equally a state of freedom.
If property is to be owned communally and distributed equally, the state must be smashed once and for all.
Bombings, assassinations and abductions are common in the region, where equally ruthless state security forces are pitted against the extremists.
At about the time Camra was getting under way in the UK, beer on the other side of the Atlantic was in an equally parlous state.
The fate of Dylann Roof will likely wind through thickets of legal appeals and an equally onerous state trial before it is ultimately resolved.
Equally fundamentally, state involvement and public spending became even more important to many Scots, in some parts of the west, accounting for as much as three-quarters of the local economy.
There are also equally ineffective state registries.
