1.   It would be very convenient if we succeeded in coming to an understanding as to how the matter stands.

2.   So matters stood when Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite.

3.   This was how matters stood when Churchill returned to office.

4.   Times might change, but as matters then stood Britain, the Commonwealth and sterling were still of importance to the United States.

5.   And that is where the matter stands.

6.   And there matters stand.

7.   And there matters stood for eight years.

8.   And there matters stood for a while.

9.   As matters stand now, that would include agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

10.   As matters stand, the administration is quietly fighting on three fronts to protect some semblance of what it originally sought on welfare.