The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

The human rights situation in Turkmenistan remained extremely poor.

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

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.

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

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.

But states remain extremely sensitive about their borders inviolability.

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.

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

I don't have an answer to the fact that there seem to be bad technologies. I don't have an answer to how this impacts on our dignity, other than to suggest that maybe the seventh kingdom, because it's so close to what life is about, maybe we can bring it back and have it help us monitor life.

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

Although I grew up around wheat fields, my knowledge of farming is thin.

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.

Indeed, these efforts have been so successful that few members of the public are aware of the scientific consensus on the fundamentals of climate change.

I think that we can come up with very concrete solutions on how to treat disorders.

Today, the debate is over core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices because they are too volatile.

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.

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

Because the prison wardens were very enthusiastic about this as well, I started a Science and Sustainability Seminar in the prisons.

Yet, there is little uncertainty about the Rwandan support as the Usamala project report explains

It's awful.

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

Indeed, a large literature on knowledge spillovers points to their remarkably narrow geographic range.

While the debate over megabanks sometimes sounds technical, in fact it is quite simple.

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.

Your gums are in bad shape.

Your condition isn't serious.

Bad advice.

Smoking is a bad habit.

The humanitarian situation is poor.

That's what the property was originally built around it was a set of mining claims. It was a very productive silver mine.

They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose, Mr. Obama said.

The package is of bad quality

He's in a bad state.

That's a bad zoo.

As a result of the slave labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight year old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong s name has become infamous.

When we have a bad idea, the response to a bad idea is not no ideas, it's not to stop thinking.

The report of the recent bipartisan investigation, led by US Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, into the infamous London Whale trades provides just one example.