It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse.

At the first sign of suspicious behavior, they immediately notify the police and local officials. This helps prevent even worse consequences.

Having stoked a boom, now the Fed can t prevent at least a short term decline in the US economy, and maybe worse.

I'm in grieving, but I'm conscious of the active, vocal role that we all need to play to prevent this getting worse.

Apart from the necessary, often infrastructural adaptations to survive the effects of climate change, enormous efforts to prevent even worse things from happening are required.

As the rescue of Bear Stearns shows, the government may need to bail out private institutions to prevent a panic that would lead to worse consequences elsewhere.

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

The United Kingdom s budget situation is worse than Spain s, but the certainty that the Bank of England would prevent speculation on the UK s debt is sufficient to reassure investors.

It is very disturbing to take someone s life, even a murderer s life, but sometimes highly unpleasant actions are necessary to prevent even worse behavior that takes the lives of innocent victims.

It gets worse.

It gets worse.

It gets worse.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

The human effects and the conditions for retaining flood waters are getting worse and worse.

Things can't be worse.

But it gets worse.

Its getting much worse.

Without rapid growth, there is no way to reverse persistently high and increasingly structural (and therefore protracted) unemployment safely de leverage over indebted balance sheets and prevent already disturbing income and wealth inequalities from growing worse.

Are Humans Worse than Chernobyl?

Nothing is worse than war.

Are corporations or governments worse?

But worse was to come.

And it will get worse.

To make matters worse, the earthquake was barely 6 miles (10 km) undeground making the damage that much worse.

Honestly, better or worse? Say, Aye.

His condition could have been worse.

Music is getting worse every year.

No, the cause is far worse.

Privatization will only make matters worse.

We would all be worse off.

And matters may be even worse.

Worse still, it continues to increase.

The question is which is worse.

But this is a worse one.

You're actually doing slightly worse not significantly, but slightly worse. You don't want to be a lithium patient this time.

It sometimes happens that a drastic action designed to prevent an unacceptable disaster may make the disaster worse. Catastrophic disasters associated with climate change are easy to invent, but the effects of remedial actions may be difficult to predict.

Prevent

To make matters worse, her husband died.

To make matters worse, her husband died.

I don't want to make matters worse.

Indicators for the eurozone are even worse.

Worse still, a cure may not exist.

In the eurozone, the outlook is worse.

Inflation would clearly make creditors worse off.