The phrase "hanging state" is not a common or standard phrase in written English.
It may be more appropriate to use the phrase "suspended state" or "limbo" to convey a similar meaning. However, if you do choose to use "hanging state," it is grammatically correct and can be used to describe a state of uncertainty or indecision. Example: After being laid off from her job, Sarah was left in a hanging state, unsure of what her next career move would be.
Foresters have placed 6,560 Barney traps across the state, hanging them in state lands and, in some instances when the owners agreed, on private property.
"I don't think there's anyone who wants this cloud hanging over state government for any longer than it needs to," Mr. Fleischmann said.
Through drawing and quartering, beheading, shooting or hanging, the state inscribed its power on the body of the convict and provided a lesson in the perils of disobedience.
With federal law and the prohibitive Controlled Substances Act still technically hanging over state law, conventional businesses view marijuana as something to be distrusted.
After the 2000 presidential election, and Florida's hanging chads, states vowed to replace old-style voting machines with new and better technology.
"There were flags in the chambers, and each one was hanging in the state house over the desks.
Meanwhile, with heavy storms hanging over the state, the two traditional candidates have been getting wet in an effort to meet voters face to face.
"The sword of Damocles is hanging over the state's economy," said Anirban Basu, the chairman and chief executive of the Sage Policy Group, an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore that worked on Maryland's new economic blueprint.
It is misleading to state, as John Campbell does in his opinion article about Ivory Coast, that in the case of Kenya, a power-sharing arrangement resulted in the incumbent head of state hanging on to power even though he had lost the election ("What to do about Ivory Coast," Views, Jan . 12.
The Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol is now trying to gather all of the governors' portraits — some of which are hanging in other state buildings — and replace several older ones that have been lost, and return them to the Hall of Governors.
