One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Allergist Burt Wolf says this year was worse than usual.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

We say his bark is worse than his bite.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

"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

That is the normal flu season and is expected to be worse than usual this year.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Japan was hit worse than many other countries in the global financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The president's top political aide says President Obama has had to take unpopular action to deal with an economic crisis far worse than anyone expected when he took office.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

"We in the Congress have a duty to tackle this problem, but the solution we settle upon should not be rushed, and the solution should not be worse than the problem we are trying to solve,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Other infectious disease experts,however, have insisted Australia's is over-reacting to the outbreak of the A-H1N1 virus, insisting that,so far, the disease is no worse than other strains of influenza that kill hundreds of Australians every year during the colder winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

"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

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