But they afflict the poor more disastrously than any other group.

It performed disastrously in recent elections for local councils and the European parliament.

Although India has outstanding universities and technological institutes, the primary education system is disastrously poor.

The war in Georgia could not have happened if America had not mishandled its global hegemony so disastrously.

Defenders of markets sometimes admit that they do fail, even disastrously, but they claim that markets are self correcting.

American forces performed disastrously at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814, allowing the British to capture and burn the capital.

Sarkozy s message is that Chirac and Villepin were right in substance to oppose America s military adventure in Iraq, but that their style was disastrously wrong.

Meanwhile, the US financial sector has been lobbying hard to free itself of regulations, so that it can return to its previous, disastrously carefree, ways.

And who would blame them? If protests have turned out badly for Russian governments over the centuries, they have ended even more disastrously for the protesters.

The answer is then left to something as simple and disastrously bad as, There's no reason for us to be here we're just accidents of genetics,

Haiti s recent economic history is marked by a remarkable and tragic downslide since the mid 1980 s, exacerbated by sometimes well intentioned but typically disastrously executed US diplomacy.

Yet the undoubted origin of the conflict is the region s extreme poverty, which was made disastrously worse in the 1980 s by a drought that has essentially lasted until today.

The Bush administration has been disastrously anti scientific. It has been staffed with ideologues who reject or neglect climate science, and who set the US on a dangerous and irresponsible path.

But, since most of the rich those who have an independent income but no associations or duties or ties have failed disastrously to live the good life, why should those who are currently poor do any better?

So Blair s concession that he must leave office, a decision so long postponed and so disastrously protracted, represents among other things a triumph of the mundane over the permanent temptation to believe that politics is about anything else.

It began as a result of weakness in a specific sector residential mortgages after a bubble in home prices allowed many Americans to borrow massively, and often disastrously, against the putative value of their equity in order to finance purchases.

We are concerned that if the developed countries are not fully responsive to and supportive of the essential requirements of economic recovery in the Third World countries, the present world economic situation will ultimately lead to a cancerous recession that will affect the whole world and lead to disastrously negative consequences.

Most of the 375 million or so people eligible to vote in the European elections on June 4 7 probably have only a hazy idea, or none at all, which explains why voter turnout throughout the European Union is likely to be disastrously low. Thirty years ago, when the first elections to the parliament were held, almost two thirds of the electorate voted, but over the years, participation has dropped steadily.