This abysmal heat!

It was an abysmal crime, whoever was responsible.

The conviction rate for rape stands at an abysmal 25 .

Idris Mohammed, indicated that we've had abysmal leadership in Africa.

If not as dark as 15 years ago, China s human rights record remains abysmal.

But in the third great arena of life, love, Len is an abysmal failure.

Now, the previous speaker before me, Idris Mohammed, indicated that we've had abysmal leadership in Africa.

For progressives, these abysmal facts are part of the standard litany of frustration and justified outrage.

Abysmal air and land transport limit the ability to move fighting forces to where they are needed most.

So they did produce the raw material, but it wasn't very efficient and the returns from that were abysmal.

Americans have once again finished a presidential campaign season in which the quality of the debate over economic policy was abysmal.

Since India gained independence 58 years ago, billions of rupees have been doled out in numerous educational policies, but general primary education remains abysmal.

There was a first study done by colleagues at Stanford and that we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia taskers are absolutely abysmal at multitasking.

There was a first study done by colleagues at Stanford and that we replicated that showed that those people that identify as being high multimedia taskers are absolutely abysmal at multitasking.

Today, in the twenty first century, thousands of millions of people still live in the most extreme poverty, lacking the basic requirements for a decent life, in abysmal hygiene and health conditions.

His abysmal human rights record remains, but the flamboyant Guide of the Revolution ceased flirting with weapons of mass destruction and global terrorism in exchange for the end of sanctions and international rehabilitation.

And, given his abysmal popularity ratings, he may decide to play the wild card, embrace a euro skeptic and anti government stance, and try to bring down Prime Minister Mario Monti s technocratic administration.

The IMF s decision was in response to the Pakistani government s failure to take promised steps to increase its abysmal tax to GDP ratio, which stands at less that 10 , one of the lowest levels in the emerging world.

But the real decisions and their consequences will fall on the government in Seoul. Would food aid help to ensure the survival of a state whose treatment of its own citizens is among the most abysmal in the world?

On the contrary, many of them, their reputations under water, have doubled down on those beliefs, apparently in the hope that events will, for once, break their way, and that people might thus be induced to forget their abysmal forecasting track record.

It would also mean that we might inadvertently drift into the abysmal trap in which mutual interests and power balances among the military heavyweights would become a commonly accepted basis for international cooperation and stability, unfortunately at the expense of the weak and the vulnerable.

Development must be seen not only as a condition for the successful implementation of an Agenda for Peace, but more so, as an essential aspiration of all people, to be pursued in itself, which, in turn, promotes higher standards of living and reduces the abysmal disparity among them.

Indeed, after ten years of uninterrupted macroeconomic stability something Mexico had not experienced since the 1960 s the middle class has expanded dramatically, and reasonably priced bank credit is now available to millions who had been excluded in the past. Yet, despite these robust changes, poverty remains widespread, inequality abysmal, and social resentment is on the rise.

NEW YORK While the United States recently reported 3.5 GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest. But official measures of GDP may grossly overstate growth in the economy as they don't capture the fact that business sentiment among small firms is abysmal and their output is still falling sharply.