The headline numbers do not look so bad.

True, things are pretty ugly right now.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The first idea is a bad one.

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.

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

I am aware that this is a very bad idea

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

Concern that the West s pro reform stance will push Ukraine into Russia s embrace is largely unfounded. Yanukovych s personal relations with Putin are so poor that Putin all but refuses to talk to him other than to make preposterous demands.

How easily one acquires bad habits!

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.

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.

It's awful.

Indeed, there are only bad options for the US in Syria.

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.

There will be consequences, of course, for Russia s relations with the West.

Your gums are in bad shape.

Your condition isn't serious.

Bad advice.

Smoking is a bad habit.

The humanitarian situation is poor.

France s impoverished suburbs, the notorious banlieues , make the ideal of fraternité sound like an insult on top of an injury.

In fact, the period had one good year (2000) and three bad ones.

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.

If you elect a bad government, then tough you live with it.

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.

The idea is compelling.

Both solutions are extremely traumatic.