In Europe, meanwhile, matters are unlikely to be any better.

The things in politics were tremulous, too, were expecting better times than under Poland, but things did not turn for the better.

As long as we're writing and you're reading things will get better as we gather a collective voice.

George Bush is not alone in worrying that things might get a lot worse before they get better.

After all, more debt (relative to equity) means a higher payoff when things go well.

And you've got to get better, and better, and better, and better.

I argued that things would not get better until they got much worse, and that the collapse of one of the world s largest financial firms was imminent.

Indeed, things will likely get worse before they get better, and it is not at all difficult to imagine a profound restructuring of the eurozone.

Your English is improving.

I want you to be better.

Your English is improving.

Indicators of equality have not improved substantially, either.

Get a housemaid and all your affairs will improve.

Conditions may well get worse before they get better.

The report states that the situation has not improved.

In fact, what we've found is that every single business outcome improves.

The situation did not improve in October.

That rather poor cost benefit ratio does not appear to be improving.

Iraqi hospital care is improving, notes Inside Iraq in this post.

Despite psychiatric treatment for depression, his mental health did not improve.

On 20 April, Mr. Sardenberg briefed the Council in a public meeting that the security situation in Haiti had gradually improved since late 2004, and that international assistance as well as national dialogue would continue to be vital for promoting social and political progress in the country.

When we do, they feel like a guilty pleasure. As a result, we often think that the world is in worse shape than it is even if we think our own lives are improving.

A more peaceful world will be possible only when Americans and others begin to see things through the eyes of their supposed enemies, and realize that today s conflicts, having resulted from desperation and despair, can be solved through economic development rather than war. We will have peace when we heed the words of President John F. Kennedy, who said, a few months before his death, For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

And yet, competitiveness in Greece and Portugal, in particular, is not improving.

Khatami s organizational savvy had not improved much since then.

However, the symptoms can improve if the blood disorder is successfully treated.

As we approach the first anniversary of the tsunami disaster, the country's situation has not improved.

The climate of our bilateral relations with Turkey over recent years has been constantly improving.

Eating whales is not necessary for the health or better nutrition of the Japanese.

Technology is moving ahead, and these large cargo scanner X rays that work with the digital system are getting better and better and better.

Nor has the access of lawyers to their Guantánamo clients improved under Obama.

When the best players play together, the quality of each, and of the team as a whole, increases exponentially.

In the area of security, I can say that since the Security Council's decree of new measures in June, with the strengthening of MINUSTAH's mandate and, above all, with the promises and recommendations for greater cooperation and coordination between MINUSTAH and the National Police, things are going much better.

Likewise, US perceptions of France and of Europe are only slowly improving.

Countries can rejoin, and do so credibly, when the fiscal, regulatory, and political prerequisites are in place.

Ms. Pimentel observed that the abortion situation in Ireland had not improved since the last report.

Why? Because batteries life cycle improve a bit of improvement on energy density, which reduces the price.

Fortunately, our international risk management institutions are steadily improving.

In India, they remain on the land or move to petty services where their productivity is not much higher.

It feels good to be good. Indeed, one recent study found that spending money on others is more rewarding than spending it on oneself.

As a result, the nutrition of more than one million children will be improved during their first 1,000 days of life.

Also, if the player visits his own shops, the quality of their goods will improve, and improve the quality of the store.

And now, with the Fed s QE2 on the table, conditions may worsen before they improve.

The horrible computerized telephone answering systems that we all now suffer with might actually improve.

Once such tools are invented, they are never un invented they just improve.