Though no landslide, such a tally would virtually ensure that Mr Netanyahu would form the next government.He would be able, moreover, to pick and choose from a range of possible allies.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society warned Sunday that the number of dead could conceivably be 5,000 to 10,000, and the United Nations World Food Program said yesterday that it would not be surprised by such a tally.
He said that such a tally would "squeeze privacy" but added that it might be worthwhile in order to satisfy critics of the collection program.
How was Lincoln to find meaning in such a cruel tally?
To succeed, he would have to capture most of the nearly 20 percent of votes that went on Sunday to Ms. Le Pen — the only surprise of the election (and even then, polls a few months ago had her at that level, only The Establishment — the "elites" as the French are fond of saying — didn't believe she could pull such a historic tally.
In a series when four times they have failed to make 180 in an innings, such a feeble tally is more norm than nightmare.
As Foote points out, it can also mean a smaller stick, such as a tally-stick or wooden token used by merchants, and, according to Jesch, it can also mean the "highest and narrowest part" of a ship's stem.
But, contrary to all the curmudgeonly grumbling that preceded them, the Olympic Games have replaced such ambiguity with a tally of 29 gold medals, exceeded only by the United States and China, as if the nation had been blessed by what Samuel Smiles, the Victorian advocate of individual will and self-betterment, called "the gift of miracles".
They handle the logistics of the Hunt, such as booking venues; keep a tally of the score; and officiate at events such as the Scav Olympics, a series of silly contests, like the "reverse dogsled race," in which a canine is the one being dragged.
At the start of 2015, the Guardian launched The Counted, a public-service project tallying and shedding light on such cases, which has reached a tally of 1,068 so far.
There is little to be gained by keeping a tally of such arguments and counter-arguments in the hope of determining who overall bears the greater burden of proof, for there is no reason to assume that the explanations of the phenomena are all on a par.
