Investors have been willing to put money into this sector, despite its parlous condition.
Miss Oliver said that Stott had "parlous" finances and his 24-year career was now "effectively over".
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.
By that time, Russia could not rescue its own parlous finances without cutting the republics adrift.
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.
ECONOMIST: A briefing on the British election: A for effort, C for attainment | The
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.
Perhaps Forbes had erred in staking a major conference on an aging guru seemingly well over the hill and in parlous health.
And the New York police were in a truly parlous state before Messrs Giuliani and Bratton arrived, so the improvement was striking.
Parlous state: Traversing the pinnacles of both business and politics is looking decidedly tricky for some of our billionaire heads of state.
Not since its war for independence in 1948 has the Jewish state been in such a parlous condition as it finds itself today.
The parlous state of the bond markets over the past couple of years suggests that lenders have now come up against those limits.
Dimon admits to sloppy work and flawed execution, and some within the bank admit to increasingly complex and parlous trades going back five years.
The Sunday newspapers focus on the parlous state of the Conservative Party, which is reeling from the defection of MP Shaun Woodward to Labour.
He dwelt, too, on the parlous state of the economy, asserting that its improvement was inextricably linked to resolving the conflict with the Palestinians.
London - Parlous state: Traversing the pinnacles of both business and politics is looking decidedly tricky for some of our billionaire heads of state.
FORBES: Singapore PM Says Deal With Thaksin Was 'Commercial'
The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi.
But the parlous state of the world economy demands nothing less.
ECONOMIST: China, America and the yuan: Time for a Beijing bargain | The
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.
Spending cuts are needed both because the public finances are parlous and because Mr Uribe is committed to a costly military build-up and more social spending.
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.
The hosts, set a target of 273 in a minimum of 55 overs, were staring defeat in the face on a parlous 123-7 despite Richard Montgomerie's 59.
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.
应用推荐