Things feel all the worse because 2012 might otherwise have been a good year.
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But those who hope to gain politically from the confusion do know better, which makes their behavior all the worse.
When the brakes finally went on, the legacy of the house-price boom made the recession of the early 1990s all the worse.
Being his favorite made being caught all the worse, her mother explained.
For the activists, Mr. Koch's perceived inaction was all the worse because many gay and anti-AIDS activists believed that he himself was gay.
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This has been made all the worse by a collapse of renewable energy momentum amid steep reductions or outright cancellations of government support programs.
These alleged actions by Gucci against Josephine Robinson are reprehensible and made all the worse because lawyers, officers of the court, subjected her to such discriminatory behavior.
Making matters all the worse, the Attorney General hardly helped himself when he continued to take an ambiguous position during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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These items are very dear, and a 22% value-added tax makes it all the worse. (We rely on packages from home for new winter coats and shoes.) Common over-the-counter medicines, such as aspirin, aren't available without a prescription.
Other things too are changing, and not all for the worse.
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For European Internet users, the deal is getting worse all the time.
Every agent I speak to has the same opinion: the business is getting worse all the time (yet they all keep at it).
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And at times when all the alternatives seem worse, people outside Russia have often concluded that indecision and drift in the Kremlin, under a moribund monarch, is a state of affairs they can live with.
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We are indoctrinated on a daily basis, in the schools and through the media, with the message that all cultures are equal and that, if one culture is worse than all the rest, it is our own.
The more stress I felt over all of this, the worse my psoriasis got.
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And with the right incentives, the retained better things are so much better that they pay for all the other new worse things.
When society misunderstands the importance of leadership, and when the world inappropriately labels non-leaders as leaders we are all worse for the wear.
"No matter how much the gigantic propaganda machine in America tries to deceive the people, the reality is stronger and worse than all the deceptions, " he said in the video posted on the web on Sunday.
Nokia shares are down sharply Tuesday morning after the cell phone maker said the outlook for both Q2 and all of 2011 are worse than the company previously expected.
As others across the world have warned in recent days, the report points out all that could become much worse if the eurozone crisis deteriorates.
After all, the only thing worse than not having emergency funds and being on track for retirement is not having emergency funds and not being on track for retirement.
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Repealing the individual mandate might be popular, for example, but it will make the insurance market worse unless you repeal all of the other aspects of Obamacare that make insurance more expensive.
But, over the past few days a string of gloomy steel production and iron ore price forecasts has trimmed the share prices of all iron ore miners with the potential for worse to come if the price projections are accurate.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
Are we destined to see all the banks continue to make the same mistakes, and worse, at the same time?
He says the leaders have been pulling all the right levers, and the crisis would be much worse without their prompt action.
However, what makes this all much worse is that the original statements were not only true they were also sensible (something of a first in European politics in itself).
"It was a real rollercoaster ride, but all things considered, it wasn't that bad a year for stocks it could've been a lot worse given all the uncertainty and political headwinds, " said Brian Gendreau, market strategist with Cetera Financial Group.
The biting was worse during the night, when they all slept on their sides, head to foot, to make room for one another, except the chief, who slept with his whole back lavishly on the floor.
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