At some unknown point in the post-medieval period, a fire gutted the keep, leaving it in its present state without floors or a roof.
Had Destiny directed as much attention to its acting and dialogue as to its structure and story line, it could have passed for a work of art, but in its present state it is a fairly easy game based on a really cool idea.
In its present state it dates from the 13th century, having been rebuilt several times since its founding in the 7th century.
It was to be bid for by smelting companies, which would have to take it all in its present state, unsorted and ungraded.
The Wavertree draws only 11 feet -- very little for so large a ship -- and can carry more sail than any other ship in Operation Sail 2000, though in its present state it will probably parade under courses fore and aft, and topsails.
Although the bill has been withdrawn for revision, in its present state it prohibit publics universities and colleges from using any taxpayer money on groups that support boycotts of Israel.
In its present state – as it sits uncatalogued in 15 bulky boxes of manuscripts, notebooks filled with hastily jotted ideas for future novels, science fiction magazines in which his first short stories were printed, including one in which the germ of the idea for his novel, Empire of the Sun, appeared – its secrets have yet to be revealed.
Thus, not only is Social Security unaffordable in its present state, but it is also harming those whose paychecks could go towards baby boomer retirement.
Obviously, I'm in no position to draw comparisons, having been cruelly cheated of the opportunity to survey Babs House pre-gussying up, but I did like it very much indeed in its present state.
We find by experience, that a body at rest or in motion continues for ever in its present state, till put from it by some new cause; and that a body impelled takes as much motion from the impelling body as it acquires itself.
It means Philae is unlikely to be operating in its present state beyond Saturday.
