61.  There are doubts about whether Charles can pull himself up from his present wretched state.

62.  This package looks at the present state of Christianity and its growth areas in South America, Russia, Africa and Asia.

63.  Unfortunately, in the present state of college football, it is necessary for teams to make weekly statements to the pollsters via lopsided beatings.

64.  Although my health is improving, my present physical state does not allow me to work the sidelines in my accustomed manner.

65.  But the last thing Indonesia needs in its present parlous state is another war.

66.  Chu heard he recovered but did not know his present state.

67.  Clearly, he stressed, the present state of affairs is much better than before the deregulation.

68.  He compared the present state of negotiations to that involving Britain and Germany before World War II.

69.  Its verycontentious articles, if adopted in their present state, promise to put a lid on freedom ofexpression.

70.  Take, for instance, the Republic of Congo before it degenerated into its present state.