This state describes any process which is waiting for an I/O event to take place.

Conative states do not describe the world, but aim to bring something about in the world.

Some states describe death from lawnmowers (particularly on golf courses).

It was Synchronicity - that state of affairs described as "meaningful coincidences."

In this context "death" describes merely the state where something has ceased, for example, life.

The state cannot describe in great detail the scope and range of the problems plaguing those individuals who have been left on the rolls.

Intuitively, the state of a system describes enough about the system to determine its future behaviour.

Back in the mountains, he quickly resumed directing a statewide campaign of "legal terrorism," as the state described it.

Under Arms describes a state of military readiness.

The question of why this highly ordered state existed, and how to describe it, remains an area of research.