But the pattern of economic mismanagement, far from being reversed, has only become worse.

The great irony of the financial crisis is that the situation has become worse, not better.

But, despite the anxious rhetoric, the oil supply problem has become worse and energy security more complex.

Even worse, our biggest banks have become even larger.

Sadly, he has now become the victim of our collective sorrow. It's no surprise that his health has grown worse since his return.

Not only were too big to fail financial institutions bailed out, but the distortion has become worse as these institutions have become via financial sector consolidation even bigger.

Money ceases to have credibility. Leaders become figures of contempt or worse.

Dire pessimism has become permanent, making consensus nearly impossible to reach an impasse made worse by the under development of civil society in France.

Worse, as competition for promotion within the Chinese bureaucracy has escalated, even fake academic credentials and GDP growth records have become insufficient to advance one s career.

But the greater the fiscal correction and private sector deleveraging, the worse growth prospects become.

The censorship, however, has been getting worse.

Afghan Journalist says insulting Afghans in Iranian media is not new, but that it has become worse since the Iranian government began mass expulsions of Afghan refugees.

Indeed, Toledo has made things worse through deception.

The pain may be worse at night and may increase over time to become severe and unremitting.

But the threat from terrorists and the political instability they bring is made worse by the easy availability of weapons in what has become an anarchic, unregulated international trade.

Indeed, in many ways, the situation has been getting worse.

In the United States, the word liberal, in the mouths of populist radio hosts and right wing politicians, has become almost synonymous with effete East Coast snob or, worse, New York intellectual.

Of course, the world has been served a lot worse since.

Worse still has been the impact on Pakistan s ethnic make up.

Worse, without support from this strategic group, other social groups, such as workers and peasants, have become politically marginalized and rudderless.

Frustrated by the long ruling LDP s poor political and economic management, voters opted last year for change at the top. But the pattern of economic mismanagement, far from being reversed, has only become worse.

It's no surprise that his health has grown worse since his return.

Warming will increase some extremes (it is likely that both droughts and fires will become worse toward the end of the century).

Since that time, however, the situation has in many cases only gotten worse.

This phenomenon precedes the crisis, but the crisis has certainly made it worse.

Worse, this process has not yet registered seriously on the multilateral policy agenda.

Worse still, economic growth based on exports of natural resources has proved unsustainable.

Much has become clear.

Lahoud has become irrelevant.

But, as the proposals become more innovative and exotic, we must examine them carefully to ensure that they wouldn t end up making matters worse.

Unfortunately, this will not happen overnight and, in some cases, conditions might have to become a lot worse in order to focus policymakers minds.

Matters may become even worse in the future, because so called vulture funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.

Making matters worse, the country has suffered this year from both floods and drought.

We overreact because being human, we feel like retaliating, and it gets worse and worse and worse.

The subject has become more open to discussion, and it has become more acceptable to set limits.

Sami has become Layla's life.

It has become an obsession.

Worse, as competition for promotion within the Chinese bureaucracy has escalated, even fake academic credentials and GDP growth records have become insufficient to advance one s career. What increasingly determines an official s prospects for promotion is his guanxi, or connections.

Worse, a bilateral free trade agreement has not been finalized, despite seven years of negotiations.

He is isolating his country among the world s pariahs worse yet, he has achieved little.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

My brother has become a priest.

English has become my favourite subject.

Sami has become my Islamic teacher.