At its worst, it is part of America s curse.

What's the worst case scenario?

We were told before the visit that the British public would be at best indifferent and at worst hostile.

Today Venezuela is not a basket case.

At worst, they may even wish to kill me.

Let's think about the worst that could happen.

Let's consider the worst that could happen.

At worst, they may be able to foment a civil war.

Paris recently experienced humanity at its worst.

At worst, it will outlaw their business model.

To watch it wither is at best frivolous, at worst dangerous.

At best, such accusations are out of date at worst, they are ideological grandstanding.

At worst, they accuse his administration of turning a blind eye.

At best, Syria will emerge from the current conflict with a decentralized or federal state at worst, the country will go the way of Somalia.

In the extreme case, this competition can take the form of civil war.

At its worst, any populist movement can descend to demagoguery.

A second school of thought also portrays the crisis as a pure liquidity problem, but views long term insolvency as an outside risk at worst.

Another Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, has claimed that macroeconomics over the last three decades has been useless at best and harmful at worst.

Irrevocably fixing the exchange rate was at best a gamble, at worst a blunder.

True, perhaps, but private Chinese entrepreneurs get a far worse deal.

At worst, the efficiency costs would be minor at best, the tax would discourage excessive short term speculation.

Governments working together are better than governments working separately or, worse, against one another.

These disadvantaged groups are particularly large in the countries that were hit hardest by the recent global financial crisis and now struggle with high unemployment.

ANNA RESEATED HERSELF IN THE CALÈCHE in a state of mind even worse than when she left home.

Multinationals with lots of debt will fare worse, as a rising dollar makes their products more expensive in the global market space and their debt more expensive the finance.

The police are at best useless and at worst outright employees of the drug lords the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.

If nothing else, having a common enemy will help the US and its Arab allies restore damaged ties.

The economic slowdown in 2009, the worst year of the crisis, was nothing short of catastrophic.

If BPO were stopped, industrialized nations and their workers would be worse off in absolute terms.

In the worst case, Schröder will lapse back into populism for the sake of short term electoral success, and Müntefering will confirm that method so as to save the wounded Social Democratic soul from total despair.

Japan, of course, is in even worse shape, with government debt totaling more than 200 of GDP.

But in a statement, Sarah Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch's Middle East Director, warned of the worst

In this corner of cyberspace, there is, of course, everything under the sun, including calls for the worst sort of sectarianism.

At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization s challenges at worst, it is a potential problem.

Despite providing 20 billion to Pakistan in counterterrorism aid since 9 11, the US has received grudging assistance, at best, and duplicitous cooperation, at worst.

On days when the war seems to be going better than expected, and the economy worse, the economy eclipses the war but neither is faring well.

This was statecraft at its worst, for which most of the blame can be laid at German Chancellor Angela Merkel s door.

It leads, in the worst cases, in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim, it leads to increased rates of suicide.

At worst, nuclear weapons would serve Iran s revolutionary foreign policy in the region, which the country s leaders have pursued since the birth of the Islamic Republic in 1979.

Indeed, in the extreme, some countries could find themselves considering whether to leave the single currency altogether.

For Russia, this could mean (in the best case) tens of thousands of refugees or (in the worst case) the arrival of armed militias on its territory.

Most of the municipal police charged with preventing crimes remain weak at best, corrupt or infiltrated at worst.

Complete American withdrawal could lead to suspicion, arms races, and, in the worst case, wars among the countries of Europe and Asia.

At best, the electoral victories of such groups make the formation of responsible governments difficult at worst, they foreshadow actively antidemocratic movements capable of getting a majority by election.

We're at best ignored and maligned and abused, at worst, by negligent regulatory agencies, pernicious zoning and lax governmental accountability.