The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

The human rights situation in Turkmenistan remained extremely poor.

And the cost of iteration is so cheap that you might as well give it a go.

The fish are often kept in poor conditions and millions die every year.

During this time he was allegedly severely maltreated and his arms and hands were slashed with knives.

Yanukovych s personal relations with Putin are so poor that Putin all but refuses to talk to him other than to make preposterous demands.

Over 50 per cent of the primary schools are now functioning, although often under very poor conditions.

A government sponsored bad bank for private assets is thus a very bad idea.

A particularly difficult plight without male support is being experienced by women widowed during the war or whose husbands have left in search of work.

Frankly speaking, the stakes are too high for the present impasse to be allowed to continue.

On international financial markets, the war in Georgia has rendered Russian debt and bonds toxic.

As developing countries have learned from experience, all these effects are bad for capital allocation and growth.

After the Winter War the Finnish army was exhausted, and needed recovery and support as soon as possible.

These shortages were a problem especially in the capital, St. Petersburg, where distance from supplies and poor transportation networks made matters particularly bad.

And that means that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate attacks, but even the mistakes can be bad.

Peter Marton says that the Afghani policemen do and will play a crucial role in winning in Afghanistan, although their current image inside the country is quite bad.

He's got eight talks online, and those talks can basically be summed up into just four words, because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad.

And then, the size of the Earth. Somehow making these all compatible with the Earth looks like a pretty bad industry to be involved with.

MONUC quick impact project funds are being used to rehabilitate prisons where conditions are particularly poor, including in Lubumbashi, Kindu, Kinshasa and Kisangani.

Hansen condemns coal fired power plants as death factories, and his belief that coal is evil is widely shared.

This structure of co leadership was so effective that it extended from the lower levels of the Roman magistracy to the very top position, that of consul.

It's awful.

Of course, news organizations operate as businesses, and defying powerful governments can be a bad business strategy.

But inflows through money market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.

8.5 The complainant stresses that the fact that she was not arrested on arrival in Spain, nor interrogated by the security forces, was due to her very poor state of health after 31 days of hunger strike.

Your gums are in bad shape.

Your condition isn't serious.

Bad advice.

Smoking is a bad habit.

The humanitarian situation is poor.

The package is of bad quality

He's in a bad state.

That's a bad zoo.

The first thing is, we're very fortunate that technology is at a point where it is much more advanced than when other countries had the development.

As a result of the slave labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight year old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong s name has become infamous.

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

It is neither good nor bad.

Mao's advice is not bad.

The first idea is a bad one.

A good emblem, but the colors are bad.

It is also concerned that migrants with no formal residence permits also live in very precarious housing conditions, without access to basic infrastructure and in fear of forced eviction.

In poorly managed systems, water pressure can be so low as to result only in a trickle of water or so high that it leads to damage to plumbing fixtures and waste of water.

Many people assume that rationality is always instrumental reason can tell us only how to get what we want, but our basic wants and desires are beyond the scope of reasoning. Not so, Parfit argues.

Uzbekistan's 78 year old President Islam Karimov appears to be very ill indeed after his government took the unprecedented step of confirming that he had been hospitalized on August 28.