Things can't be worse.

Music is getting worse every year.

The situation in Zimbabwe is getting worse every day.

And matters may be even worse.

Now the other shoe has dropped.

Let s be honest There is a Roma problem in Europe, and it is getting worse.

In the post war period, the health state of the population in BiH is progressively getting worse.

Political indecision in some quarters is making matters worse.

On the contrary, they make things worse.

To complicate matters, the lag works in both directions.

Defending a status quo that is unworkable only makes matters worse.

The most recent entry points to a worsening of the situation, and wonders what the fate of the mountain gorillas will be with the continuing war.

And the reason it keeps getting worse is that after a natural catastrophe, like a hurricane, it used to be that there was some kind of successional sequence of recovery, but what's going on now is that overfishing and pollution and climate change are all interacting in a way that prevents that.

PARIS Financial markets have rallied since July on the hope that the global economic and geopolitical outlook will not worsen, or, if it does, that central banks stand ready to backstop economies and markets with additional rounds of liquidity provision and quantitative easing.

This is the real skills gap that existed before the Great Recession, and it is getting worse over time.

It is now essentially concentrating on dealing with the symptoms of the crisis, which, with the continuing impasse in the peace process, are getting worse day by day.

Government officials, including the Governor of Quneitra, and the witnesses attested before the Special Committee to the ever worsening human rights situation in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The complex things get more fragile, more vulnerable the Goldilocks conditions get more stringent, and it's more difficult to create complexity.

And if the decline in nominal wages signals that there is an excess supply of labor, matters only get worse.

A lot of the experience of people here who've been in the oceans for a long time has just been seeing this degradation, the places they saw that were beautiful getting worse, depressing.

In Europe, monetary intervention has greater potential to help but with a similar risk of making matters worse.

The great banking, financial, and economic crises, which every country in the world still confronts, has made things worse.

Spain s financial exposure to Portugal and its housing led recession don t help matters.

But, in the absence of complementary action, depreciation whether engineered or market driven will make matters worse.

Maybe he ate something bad for lunch, and then things get really horrible, as his skin rips apart, and he sees a virus coming out from his insides.

And laboratory findings show that people will continue to punish even if they are well aware that doing so is actually making things worse.

To make matters worse, the Bundesbank remains committed to an outmoded monetary doctrine rooted in Germany s traumatic experience with inflation.

There are tens of thousands of those stories out there, and it's really hard to conjure up much of a sense of well being, because it just keeps getting worse.

If anything, they claim, his fiscal stimulus, the bank bailouts, and US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke s aggressive monetary policy made matters worse.

It gets worse.

The living conditions of the Ivorian population, particularly in the west and the north, continue to worsen, with significant interruptions in the supply of potable water in both rural and urban areas, and diminishing access to basic health care.

Bush s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the manner in which he conducted the global war on terror made matters much worse, contributing to a totally unsustainable situation.

The leadership issue made matters worse the SPD s Peer Steinbrück and the Greens Jürgen Trittin never had the slightest chance against Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.

But it gets worse.

The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood boiling cross examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf and many so called solutions are making the situation worse.

It is essential to reverse this negative trend, which can only compromise the outcome of the operation, given the real risk of worsening tensions in view of the actions of the forces of the occupying Power and of the Palestinian resistance.

How can we respond to these expectations today? In the same spirit, it was also your wish for a greater sense of relevance to be injected into this forum.

At the same time, this is only the beginning of the crisis, because the conditions inciting people to flee their homelands will only worsen. And the EU, many of whose members have the world s largest and best equipped welfare systems, appears to be overwhelmed by it politically, morally, and administratively.

It s a fiscal issue, the typical German economist says, and monetary policy will not help on the contrary, activating it will only make matters worse.

They also got faster.

The streets of Cairo are becoming dangerous.

So, as things got worse, as we really began to hate each other, I became progressively depressed over a period of a couple of years, trying to save this marriage, which was inevitably not to be saved.

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NEW YORK While discussions about economic green shoots continue unabated in the United States, in many countries, and especially in the developing world, matters are getting worse.

25. Recognizes that the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical products containing substances under international control via the Internet is an escalating problem and that the unsupervised use of such substances purchased through the Internet by the general public, in particular underage persons, constitutes a serious risk to global health