He also fleetingly mentioned the abysmal state of public transport across the country. |
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The weather conditions were quite abysmal with the piercing cold and rain testing the stamina and endurance of all players and panel members. |
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Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response? |
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But maybe that phone number screw-up is just so abysmal that it's got to be graded a failure. |
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Other reasons were poor roads and abysmal vehicle maintenance and, according to some Russian citizens, the high car-ownership among Georgians. |
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I've often wondered how they could get away with some of the cooking programmes that are on TV, considering how abysmal the hygiene shown is. |
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Certainly the abysmal suffering and despair in many poor countries should cause us sickening guilt. |
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And one reason it's not been achieved is the abysmal lack of planning for an aftermath which was violent. |
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In this budget, the government continues its abysmal record on assisting the world's poorest people. |
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But many schools serving the poor are of such abysmal quality that many children drop out of school in frustration. |
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Carlow's league campaign has descended from early promise to an abysmal second half display against Wexford last time out. |
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True, the progress so far is minuscule compared with the problems created by decades of capital flight, abysmal schools, and drug abuse. |
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Our society has almost sunk into abysmal moral degeneration and deterioration. |
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But by July of 1992, those approval ratings had slid to an abysmal 25 percent, presaging his electoral defeat three months later. |
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Unfortunately, the quality of the titles ranged all the way from mediocre to abysmal. |
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There was no denying Ballylinan's superiority as they completely overshadowed an abysmal Rock performance. |
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And he's so far not lived up to any single commitment that he's made, which is a pretty abysmal record. |
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Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance. |
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Most of the world's populations live in abysmal poverty, our governments are corrupt, and we lead meaningless lives of banality. |
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This at least saves me trying to comprehend how anybody could write such abysmal dialogue, characters, and plot scenarios. |
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York University had an abysmal five per cent turnout, in part because in the previous year they hadn't had an election. |
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On close inspection this area of technology has an abysmal record of technological advancement. |
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He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart. |
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Since its launch in January, the ratings have been abysmal and the critical notices worse. |
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Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype. |
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The quality of the competition apart, what let things down was the abysmal and partisan television coverage. |
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A pox on all gear designers who've never field-tested their abysmal creations. |
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Texas's public defence system which provides legal advice for those who can't afford it, is notorious for its abysmal standards. |
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Oil is generating plenty of income, while productivity is often abysmal and the quality of local products repellent. |
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Will computers close the final gap, and find in their own depths, abysmal or otherwise, an instinctual feel for the wrong move at the right time? |
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Further along the river, villages tell the story of neglect and abandonment and a people living in abysmal conditions. |
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I don't know, but I am sure that anonymity plays its part when these abysmal and frighteningly stupid people decide to view this stuff. |
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Since the demise of the Catch Me Com buses the No 4 Highercroft route has degenerated from poor to absolutely abysmal. |
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The aim of the MP who imposed the postal vote upon Yorkshire, was to increase the abysmal turnout from previous elections. |
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For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner. |
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I merely want to point out that this abysmal state of affairs is not just a weakness in the market. |
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Boxing Helena is hereby pronounced guilty of abysmal putridity. |
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Secondly, the book is printed on pulp paper of abysmal quality. |
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Every day tens of thousands of drivers queue up like refugees at the borders of the European Union, in abysmal conditions. |
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They're responsible for the abysmal lack of education in the population that allows these low feelings to flourish and contaminate our youth. |
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I want you, dear friends, to understand what animalistic, vegetable and mineral abysmal recapitulation means. |
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Landfills and other places for garbage disposal are often cleaned up by children and women under abysmal conditions, out of necessity. |
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The handful of guitar instruction DVDs I have watched range from superlative to abysmal, and nowadays the marketplace is glutted with guitar videos. |
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The banks and credit card companies have an abysmal approach to lending practises that needs to be redirected. |
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Mistreatment of criminal suspects and violations of due process rights are standard fare, while conviction rates are abysmal. |
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It remains to be seen if McGuinty will improve on the abysmal legacy of the Harris-Eves years. |
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Living under abysmal conditions, they face serious health and security threats. |
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Given the abysmal poverty prevalent in the Lundas, these charges will prove a significant additional barrier to licensing. |
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Governance issues were important, but so too were the abysmal social and economic conditions still all too common in many communities. |
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In contrast to these positive examples, abysmal leadership in Zimbabwe has transformed this rich agricultural land into a hungry one. |
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It was a mess, and when Ball exited as showrunner following the abysmal fifth season, it got even worse. |
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Yes, the economy remains sclerotic, work force participation is abysmal, and wages stagnate. |
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It has been, by all accounts, an abysmal year when it comes to comedy films. |
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For guys, Indiana Jones enjoyed a resurgence, thanks to the abysmal sequel that had just been released. |
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My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below. |
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The down side is excess weight, poor performance and abysmal gas mileage. |
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The research will be carried out in Glasgow, where the handing out of statins is most likely to happen, because of the city's abysmal heart attack record. |
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If an abysmal new series sneaks on to the schedules without provoking an outburst from us, it can trundle through its six-week schedule unscathed. |
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Despite throwing his hat in the ring for almost every job in the next three years, the best he could get was a brief, abysmal spell at Bradford City. |
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But it is the Scottish banks which are the real villains of the piece, all huddled together in an abysmal performance right at the bottom of the league table. |
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Because of the poverty of the tribals and the complexity involved in the ITDP procedures, they are forced to sell their produce to local sahukars, at abysmal rates. |
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His journal comments on the comparatively depressed state of the countryside, the untilled fields, ill nourished stock, abysmal roads and poor isolated villages. |
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It is true that America's tax system is an abysmal and Byzantine mess. |
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May wrote that the wartime performance of the Allied intelligence services was abysmal. |
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Alfred undoubtedly exaggerated for dramatic effect the abysmal state of learning in England during his youth. |
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It was turning into an abysmal afternoon for Newcastle and it deteriorated further when Tiote saw red for his challenge on Jon Ashton. |
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It is no wonder that the United States has tried and is trying to create a smokescreen in this meeting and elsewhere to deflect attention from its abysmal record on nuclear disarmament. |
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The crowd of 14,757 for the last one, on a school night when the weather was abysmal, was remarkably high in the circumstances. |
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Despite its abysmal human right records and the unified protests of trade unions and civil society, Colombia is moving ever closer to concluding a free trade deal with the European Union, the United States and Canada. |
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Such international efforts have an abysmal record. |
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If we do not close the digital divide, our future geography will be a dangerous one, made up of small islands of extraordinary wealth in an ocean of abysmal want and need. |
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Prison conditions are of particular concern, with overcrowding exacerbated further by ageing prison infrastructure and abysmal standards of health and hygiene. |
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Certain nuclear weapon States have tried to create smokescreens in the international fora, including the NPT Review process to deflect attention from their abysmal record and policies. |
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The abysmal record of overruns, low-balled estimated costs, highballed ridership estimates and incompetence is their legacy. |
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They are simply Ly Tong's way of drawing world attention to Vietnam's abysmal human rights situation, so often neglected by international opinion and the media. |
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Mrs Zia's prime ministership from 2001-06 was unusually abysmal. |
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In the NAFO area, this has resulted in an abysmal failure of international management arrangements and a marine ecosystem catastrophe of epic proportions. |
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The condition of the remaining horses is nothing short of abysmal. |
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This time every year, without fail, the temperature rises, the evenings lengthen and the UK Eurovision organisers force some poor unknown gonk to shriek out an abysmal mess of a career-ending almost-song to universal disdain. |
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It would be an abysmal and irresponsible free-for-all spending orgy, like the sponsorship program, the long gun registry, and like the irresponsible and unaccountable spending in the HRDC department. |
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It affects salary levels which are considered abysmal by most other sector standards and makes it a major challenge to attract and retain high-quality staff. |
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Burma's abysmal human rights record continued to worsen. |
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These disappearing cosmoses of the spirit have left humanity in the abysmal state of self-denial in which nothing but the corporeal remains. |
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The Liberals have an absolutely abysmal record and to somehow rewrite history and reconfigure the facts of what actually happened is not acceptable in any way, shape or form. |
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In Upper Canada, the British had the Provincial Marine was essential for keeping the army supplied since the roads in Upper Canada were abysmal. |
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However, developing the strength of the beast, the sinister power of the mental ego, the only thing that ones obtains is to become more tenebrous, leftist and abysmal each day. |
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Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen. |
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Severe understaffing, excessive workloads, and abysmal recruitment and retention practices have caused the facility to operate below industry standards on a number of levels. |
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The automaton's oracle would seem to introduce an arcane mnemotechnics into the poet's anamnesis, drawing his memory up from its abysmal depths into a kind of surface. |
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Employees were terrorized into accepting abysmal working conditions. |
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