As Madagascar finds itself in the fourth year of a political crisis, most external assistance to the country has been suspended, which has reduced the capacity of Malagasy authorities to respond to such emergencies.
Russia's own history, its heavy dependence on easily looted natural resources and the evidence so far all make it seem likely that the country will find itself in the second category, not the first.Mr Putin's experiment does seem to have made the state a little stronger and quite a lot more stable, but not noticeably more efficient, and certainly no more accountable or transparent.
The United States, meanwhile, finds itself in the bottom third of the O.E.C.D. international rankings of mathematical and scientific aptitude at high school level.
Europe finds itself in the midst of the first self-conscious attempt to reflect on the public authority that has been created over fifty years of the European integration.
There's fan chatter, too, that this time Coachella finds itself in the rare position of being second runner-up in the competition for the best headlining acts.
But with some of the program's March magic rekindled thanks to its mystical 2-3 zone, Syracuse finds itself in the Round of 16 for the first time since 2004.
The new one, which opened Tuesday, first finds itself in the sewers of a Colorado town, where the title, um, characters are doing battle.
As for his squad, he's quite pleased with the situation it finds itself in, owning the seventh seed with a first-round home game after having won nine of its last 10 games – including a buzzer-beater over rival Arcadia to end the regular season.
— ANDREW DAS Let me play devil's advocate here for a minute and see if I can make a case for Real Madrid digging itself out of the 4-1 hole it finds itself in after the first match in Dortmund.
