So that's another way in which something that is quite positive can have a nasty kickback.

Military personnel are being trained for war, so they're trained that, as soon as things go bad, their first response is lethal force.

Well unfortunately, power corrupts, and so people will do lots of things to get power and to stay in power, including doing bad things to elections.

It's awful.

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.

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.

I am aware that this is a very bad idea

Unfortunately, Lala is bad at cooking.

If nuclear weapons are evil and India agrees with Australia that they are then no one should have them.

The first two growth models invariably come to a bad end.

It's a very politically correct zoo, but it's a bad zoo.

How easily one acquires bad habits!

Significant weight loss is a bad sign.

Of the units that remained by late 2002, most were in a poor state of repair and the crews were in a poor state of readiness.

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Nuclear energy, fission, is really bad idea for bombs.

The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

His diet while in detention has been extremely poor.

Impunity sends a bad sign for the future.

So imagine hundreds of millions of voters casting hundreds of millions of votes, all to be counted correctly and all the things that can possibly go wrong causing all these bad headlines, and you cannot help but feel exhausted at the idea of trying to make elections better.

We're going to keep being surprised. And almost all the surprises are going to be bad ones.

Right, so, a doctor says to his patient, I have bad news and worse news.

Yes, I am aware this is a very bad idea

Rightly so it is ill conceived.

Indeed, there are only bad options for the US in Syria.

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Bad Habit, Volgograd, Russia, 22 November 2009, photo by Mohd Hafizuddin Husin, CC 2.0.

Of course, there are instances of misconduct, misbehavior and disasters.

There is also bad publicity about renewable energy failures.

So, well he did.

Do action

And so he did.

And so, you know, 390 percent approval rating ain't so bad.