In addition to the 8% cut in its funding (over four years) demanded as part of the government's fiscal-austerity plan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has somehow to close an unfunded liability of £38 billion ($61 billion) up to 2020.
A resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seems as distant as ever, yet Israel has somehow grown close to longstanding enemies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
So, if you like, you can lob criticism at the young squad that has somehow forgotten how to close out on opponents.
"Deciding to look back now, as if her political career has somehow drawn to a close, I think is foolhardy.
Taxes from retail sales in Fort Lauderdale were down 8.6% in September over the same month last year, worse even than Florida's overall decline of 8.2%.Oddly, for an escapist place, South Florida has somehow contrived to be close to the national action at crucial times, at least in recent years.
He's still at home and still under a ban, yet he has somehow managed to make another film, "Closed Curtain," together with the director Kambozia Partovi, which has been shown at various film festivals around the world, though not yet in New York.
But suggestions that she, the sublimely understated Gillian Anderson, had somehow crossed lines, growing too close to Paul's sub-Nietzschean psyche, are invalid, as she had earlier quietly explained to her colleague Tom.
What was once a community of 35-year-olds has somehow become a group that's closer to 65.
