Leaders like President Obama,however, argue that the recession would have been much worse without the spending.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

A storm destroyed his house in 2007, he says.And worse, storm surges have tainted the water supply with salt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"And the only think worse than the policy itself has been the process that the Democrats have followed to get this passed,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

In short,the pain,havoc, and economic devastation could have been far worse, according to the head of the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

He tells VOA that the natural disaster could not have happened at a worse time for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Hadi al-Marai,who head Iraq's Press Freedom and Observation center says the outcome could have been worse.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Otherwise it will have the opposite effect of excluding large chunks of poor people and they could become even worse off than they are today,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

You can't make life worse for clinicians. And you also have to understand the local needs and capabilities, which I think we see with m-health and emerging technologies there."

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"The banks that came closest were Citibank, Bank of America and if those had not been supported by the government, I think it might have caused a cascading crisis that would have been much worse than the one we actually had,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Abshir Ahmed,52, has lived all his life along a stretch of the desert near the town of Docol, Scratching the bone-dry earth with his bare,calloused feet, Ahmed says the devastation that he and others are experiencing now is worse than anything they have ever been through before.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The Syrians straddle the fence between the order of conservative nations on the one hand and this alliance with Iran on the other and it would make perfect sense for Bashar al-Assad to pose as the mediator with the Iranians, which means: hey,if you folks think I'm bad, think of the Iranians,they're much worse, but I have credit in their bank and I can deal with the Iranians."

VOA: standard.2009.03.18