The IMF highlights several areas of concern, chief among them the parlous state of Iraq's budget.
But Tan critics say he is partly to blame for his carrier's parlous state.
For all its problems, Scotland's banking sector is not in the parlous state of Spain's.
After eight years of sloth and corruption under the Socialists, Hungary's economy is in a parlous state.
One of the president's main arguments for his tax-cut plan was the parlous state of the American economy.
The parlous state of the economy has political as well as financial roots.
These problems are not just a symptom of the parlous state of agriculture.
But that may not be an option given the group's other problems and the parlous state of Malaysia's capital markets.
Even the Lib Dems have postponed their once-totemic plans to scrap fees altogether, citing the parlous state of public finances.
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Funding obstacles remain, although not, perhaps in the way that you might imagine given the parlous state of the Spanish economy.
With the economy close to stagnation and the public finances in a parlous state, a spur to demand would be welcome.
And the New York police were in a truly parlous state before Messrs Giuliani and Bratton arrived, so the improvement was striking.
The parlous state of the bond markets over the past couple of years suggests that lenders have now come up against those limits.
The Sunday newspapers focus on the parlous state of the Conservative Party, which is reeling from the defection of MP Shaun Woodward to Labour.
London - Parlous state: Traversing the pinnacles of both business and politics is looking decidedly tricky for some of our billionaire heads of state.
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But the parlous state of the world economy demands nothing less.
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His advisers seem to have concluded that a climate bill was a non-starter given the parlous state of the economy, and concentrated on health care instead.
Given the parlous state of urban China's social-security system, peasants would continue to regard land as a vital safety net, to be relinquished only in extreme circumstances.
Thanks in part to retrenchment under the previous centre-left government, Italy's public finances are no longer in the parlous state they were in a few years ago.
Bernanke is worried about the parlous state of the de-leveraging U.S. economy, and possibly worried that the U.S. banking sector is not strong enough to weather more currency turbulence.
Pakistan exited the six-over powerplay in a parlous state on 46-3, after Broad had picked up two wickets from as many deliveries - Mascarenhas getting it all going by removing Ahmed Shehzad.
Still his familiarity with the parlous state of American financial firms--especially those with ties to the subprime crisis--would have been attractive to Wachovia's board, as would his contacts inside the Washington Beltway.
The latest instalment involves the closure of the Circle Line for two months of essential repairs at the height of the tourist season, underlining the parlous state of both its management and its infrastructure.
At the time, Mr Straw sought to blame the previous administration, saying that Labour had no choice but to stick to two years' worth of Conservative spending plans on taking office because of the allegedly parlous state of the public finances.
Russia might use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack, says Mr Rybkin, in part because its own conventional forces are in so parlous a state.
But there is a sweetener regarding Social Security (state pensions): any savings made from that programme would go towards shoring up its parlous finances, rather than paying down the deficit.
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