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.

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.

Is it good? Is it bad? Is complexity better? I'm not sure.

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.

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

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.

You guys have very insecure computers, OK?

In the developed world it is very uncommon.

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.

Women working in the informal and agricultural sectors were particularly badly off.

The insurer faces adverse selection, because he cannot distinguish between good and bad risks.

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

It's awful.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic.

Well, often we're unaware of the fact that we're living in environments in which our skin is inherently poorly adapted.

Unlawful forced evictions and demolitions remain a bad practice of many Member States.

Despite their importance, the informal sector and informal employment are poorly covered, if at all, by official statistics.

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

In some cases, the diversion of funds is attributed to poor or improperly audited programmes.

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.

It is very uncommon for the disease to cause death.

The package is of bad quality

He's in a bad state.

That's a bad zoo.

The first, I venture to say, is that we agree that the situation is not acceptable, that it is a bad one for the disarmament machinery as a whole.

The results of the survey show that almost a third of Estonian households live in poor conditions or in conditions not suitable for their housing needs.

It's so much more subtle, so much more visceral you know, what's visible, what's not.