But the party's chief whip in the Commons, Alistair Carmichael, insisted on Saturday that the party was "in a much better condition than people in the press would ever want the general public to know".
Goldman Sachs estimates about 70 million people a year worldwide are entering the "middle class" and that by 2030 2 billion people will be in a far better condition than the poverty they experience today.
Indeed, Social Security is in a rather better financial condition than many state and local funds which have followed the diversified-portfolio route.
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She said there needed to be a better understanding of the condition.
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Often this involves concealing information that would cause potential transacting partners to refuse to transact with them or to demand better terms as a condition of doing so.
Peter Judge, chief executive of the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association, said it would be several hours before they could get a better idea of how serious her condition is.
Ho hum, not exactly a unique occurrence in the human condition but better admitted than not.
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Many of these former settlements are in much better condition than Pripyat and offer a unique peek into Soviet rural life.
Like poverty or ethnic and religious conflict, climate change is not something likely to be solved, eliminated or ended, but rather a condition that society will struggle to do better or worse at in managing.
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Film companies try to leave a home in the same condition as they found it--or better.
Although cystic fibrosis requires daily care, most people with the condition are able to attend school and work, and have a better quality of life than in previous decades.
Diplomats from western countries, which are demanding the extradition of Mr Milosevic as a condition for the country's full rehabilitation, believe the police chief is probably better informed than anybody else about the ex-president's misdeeds.
Apart from anything else, if the Fed's and the Bank of England's policies of keeping money cheaper than it has ever been hasn't returned the US and UK to better-than-anaemic growth in the past three years, it is questionable whether it will be a sufficient condition for proper recovery in the next two years.
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