A particularly difficult plight without male support is being experienced by women widowed during the war or whose husbands have left in search of work.

After the Winter War the Finnish army was exhausted, and needed recovery and support as soon as possible.

Your gums are in bad shape.

The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

The human rights situation in Turkmenistan remained extremely poor.

Of the units that remained by late 2002, most were in a poor state of repair and the crews were in a poor state of readiness.

During this time he was allegedly severely maltreated and his arms and hands were slashed with knives.

Occupational safety and sanitation well as production tools are in poor conditions.

The economy of those regions, especially as related to agriculture and forestry, is in a dire situation.

This equipment is in poor condition because of the extreme conditions under which it was stored.

Yanukovych s personal relations with Putin are so poor that Putin all but refuses to talk to him other than to make preposterous demands.

Over 50 per cent of the primary schools are now functioning, although often under very poor conditions.

In the early ninties Marimekko was in a bad financial condition and was considered ready for bankruptcy.

Uzbekistan's 78 year old President Islam Karimov appears to be very ill indeed after his government took the unprecedented step of confirming that he had been hospitalized on August 28.

A government sponsored bad bank for private assets is thus a very bad idea.

On international financial markets, the war in Georgia has rendered Russian debt and bonds toxic.

As developing countries have learned from experience, all these effects are bad for capital allocation and growth.

Schools in indigenous areas generally lack adequate facilities and resources, and budgets and teaching resources are insufficient.

A large part of the Sudanese railway network is currently in disrepair due to political turmoil.

Even the most durable and intactable buildings, like the pyramids of Giza, are in bad shape when you look up close.

At the time of separation, the Royal Dano Norwegian Navy was in a poor state and Norway was left with the lesser share.

These shortages were a problem especially in the capital, St. Petersburg, where distance from supplies and poor transportation networks made matters particularly bad.

In the case of Syria, the West has repeatedly called for diplomacy while ruling out any military action, with predictably bad results.

And that means that it's vulnerable to certain kinds of mistakes that can happen, or certain kinds of deliberate attacks, but even the mistakes can be bad.

Peter Marton says that the Afghani policemen do and will play a crucial role in winning in Afghanistan, although their current image inside the country is quite bad.

However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients.

The main ring road runs along the coast of the island it has a length of about 55 km and 33 km of it are in poor condition.

That, in the case of the young Aboriginal boys, is true despite their own extreme challenges.

Europe as a whole is not in bad fiscal shape its debt to GDP ratio compares favorably with that of the United States.

Because the boot loader resides in flash memory, this model may require the use of a JTAG in case of bad flashing which destroyed the boot loader.

Approximately 80 per cent of the chambers for storing and freezing foodstuffs of the country's 786 secondary schools are either inactive or in very bad condition.

He's got eight talks online, and those talks can basically be summed up into just four words, because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad.

And then, the size of the Earth. Somehow making these all compatible with the Earth looks like a pretty bad industry to be involved with.

MONUC quick impact project funds are being used to rehabilitate prisons where conditions are particularly poor, including in Lubumbashi, Kindu, Kinshasa and Kisangani.

And some voters are so frustrated with the stalemate in Washington that they re willing to consider other options.

It is an extremely rare condition, affecting as few as 1 in 10,000,000 people per year.

The theatre was closed down in 2010, when authorities argued that the building was in a poor and neglected shape. Since then, the struggle against Emek's demolition has been ongoing.

Many of these obsolete stockpiles, some of which date back 25 years, are in poor condition and pose serious environmental threats due to leakage.

Hansen condemns coal fired power plants as death factories, and his belief that coal is evil is widely shared.

It's awful.

Because Schnitzler's syndrome is so rare, the efficacy of different treatments cannot be compared using statistics.

Of course, news organizations operate as businesses, and defying powerful governments can be a bad business strategy.

But inflows through money market funds are not so bad for banks, which get the cash without having to set aside reserves or pay for deposit insurance.

8.5 The complainant stresses that the fact that she was not arrested on arrival in Spain, nor interrogated by the security forces, was due to her very poor state of health after 31 days of hunger strike.