This is a wretched time to be holding a business-related discussion anywhere other than the confines of your office.
Doing so, it worries, might draw millions more across its borders, especially from Myanmar, a populous, wretched country with a ghastly regime.
Moldova looks stuck in a wretched economic and geographical plight, a country not so much forgotten as never remembered.
The first and last scenes of this movie vaguely remind you of an old Claude Lelouch weepie lovers looking wretched in a picturesque fog.
Generally deemed wretched after a 14-year war for independence from Portugal followed by 27 years of civil war that only ended in 2002, Angola is now one of Africa's economic successes thanks almost entirely to oil.
Despite a wretched run of four straight league defeats, punctuated by a commendable Challenge Cup win at Bradford, the Black and Whites got off to a great start as reverse passes from Kirk Yeaman and Willie Manu sent Briscoe clear for a sixth minute opener.
It had been a wretched day for Sri Lanka, who are 1-0 down in the series.
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Both coaches are under extreme pressure with Hadden looking to improve on a wretched string of results over the past year.
Surrey produced a wretched batting display to be bowled out for 122.
Now he has the chance to make amends for a wretched record of neglect of the country's road and rail system over the past decade.
It was certainly a wretched day for Alastair Cook, in only his second Test as England captain, who could not dislodge the Bangladesh tail until half an hour before lunch.
There is always hope that something will come out of this lost opportunity besides a necropolis with shops and offices, that someone will recognize its failure as a wretched political legacy.
Except if borrowers were truly fearful the UK (US, France, Austria, Japan, etc.) were really a wretched place to park funds, 10-year benchmark rates would decidedly not be south of 3%.
He had won 36 caps when, starting in 2001, a wretched catalogue of back, groin and hamstring injuries began to hinder his career and he has not made an international appearance since.
But such improvements come on a wretched base.
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If he does, the West will simply have to grit its teeth, in Kosovo perhaps more doggedly even than in Bosnia, and prepare itself for a long haul as an unloved policeman in a wretched part of the world.
Edith had a wretched childhood.
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So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.
For a current of political opinion that was in national power only two years ago, this is a pretty wretched showing.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
If these four teams continue at this pace, it will be a historically wretched year for any metropolitan area with two ball clubs.
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There is certainly a darkly wretched streak in his background.
You may have some inkling of compassion, because it's a human being in a very wretched state of existence, but I think they're unsympathetic to the extent that, historically, we have not put any kind of public resource at their disposal to help change their lives.
Western aid helps a bit a few billion dollars goes a lot further than it used to but is a mere blip on a vast, wretched, dangerous landscape.
The orphanages mean wretched children, but also a depressing cultural change.
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