Parlous conditions required dramatic measures.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone A parlous knock and it cried bitterly.

The economic and social distortions of apartheid have left the South African economy in a parlous state.

The Asian Football Cup highlighted not only China's growing nationalism, but also the parlous state of relations with Japan.

(ii) The need for commodity diversification in Africa has been assessed in the light of the parlous economic situation of the region.

Of course, Taiwan's parlous relations with China have suffered further as a result, with China's government denouncing calls for a new constitution as a calculated move towards independence.

Parlous conditions required dramatic measures. And that is what the economy got in the form of unprecedented fiscal stimulus and unthinkable policy activism on the part of the US Federal Reserve.

But replacing private insurance with public insurance has its own problems consider the parlous circumstances in which Britain s National Health System finds itself, the result of generations of politically driven underinvestment in health care.

Increased defense spending, together with the Bush tax cuts, is a key reason why America went from a fiscal surplus of 2 of GDP when Bush was elected to its parlous deficit and debt position today.

The continuing parlous state of the finances of the United Nations is clearly an issue that we must tackle seriously, and we believe that an open ended working group of the Assembly should be set up to address it without delay.