actual state of affairs

However, after Glenarvan had calmly surveyed the actual state of affairs, he determined to bring things to a crisis.

Though his report was glowing, she wondered about the actual state of affairs on his end of the call.

Even if they stumbled onto evidence of the actual state of affairs, they'd rationalize it away."

He wrote, "By a certain mere accident I chanced to come closer to the actual state of affairs.

Correspondence theories claim that true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs.

The actual state of affairs, as visits on three consecutive days and dozens of interviews showed, is more nuanced than either view.

This is another tell-tale sign for Brussels with regard to the actual state of affairs in Ankara.

"The report pays no attention to the actual state of affairs, and in a premeditated fashion exaggerates the so-called Chinese military threat," it said.

It is imperative that we have an accounting system that does not conceal the actual state of affairs and the reasons for it.

If presuppositions of a sentence are not consistent with the actual state of affairs, then one of two approaches can be taken.

Yet the above-mentioned guiding principles bear no relation to the actual state of affairs, especially given the substantial cuts that have been made to the budget.

"This is your opportunity, Jalway, to see the actual state of affairs on Timour Isle.

Need and want recognition occur when a consumer senses a difference between what he or she perceives to be the idea versus the actual state of affairs.

This is yet another example of overregulation and the production of legislation that fails to take account of the actual state of affairs.

Not regarding these constraints seriously, the utopian cannot assess his/her current position and thus is unable to move from the actual state of affairs to his/her desire.

What the actual state of affairs is may be known at the highest levels of government, but I doubt that the Bush Administration is willing to divulge what is known.

As for me, amused and occupied by the incidents of travel, I had begun to forget the inevitable future; but now I was once more destined to realize the actual state of affairs.

He thereby argued that the world is the totality of actual states of affairs and that these states of affairs can be expressed by the language of first-order predicate logic.

They have dashboard gasoline gauges glued to zero and digital volt-meters and amp-meters from Radio Shack attached with duct tape and baling wire that show the actual state of affairs.

These men realized that the doctrines of the old laissez faire economists, of the believers in unlimited competition, unlimited individualism, were in the actual state of affairs false and mischievous.

Mr. Martin's assertion about the victimization of the Serbs after Croatia declared its independence last June is far removed from the actual state of affairs, and so are his examples of harassment.

They have the same ideal character as does any abstract model of reality and its canonical exemplification, and their relationship with actual states of affairs is a matter of continual interpretation and reappraisal.

Judgments by the European Court of Justice are not, after all, political in nature; they are based on a penetrating analysis of actual states of affairs and law in the Member States.

If someone had the right thought, that the play did begin there at eight, then their thought did have a content that was true, but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs.