Males were worse off than females.
But in America, the average person would be worse off.
Its residents are worse off than those of Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
If senders do not add stamps, you are no worse off for checking; you just aren't better off, either.
I went to his home and found his living conditions were worse off than mine.
The question will be: Are you worse off or just holding steady?
Homeowners are worse off, too, because the value of one of their vital assets is eroding.
If they quickly find similar work in other counties or industries, then in aggregate the economy is no worse off.
Now, some are saying he exaggerated the chance of success and that the surgery left them worse off.
This is one of the reasons why so many spiritual entrepreneurs are worse off than starving artists.
That means some buyers of CDSs, who were betting on default, may paradoxically end up worse off.
Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.
The standard economic definition of efficiency is pareto optimality: when no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
Not only is it impossible to turn back the tide of globalization, but efforts to do so can make us worse off.
Consumers are worse off: fans wanting all the televised games had to buy Setanta's as well as BSkyB's, and so had to pay more than before.
When researchers ask people whether they would rather be relatively richer than their peers even if that means they are absolutely worse off, the answer is yes.
Instead, it is the nation's close integration with the United States that has left it worse off than its Latin American peers.
In social and economic matters across the black population as a whole, however, blacks are still much worse off than whites. They endure far greater rates of poverty, crime and other social ills.
Screenwriters often employ a plot device called a reversal, in which a hero who seems to be making progress abruptly finds himself worse off, and facing a much greater menace.
The standard theory has been that women who have problems coping after abortion were probably already mentally unstable and therefore more likely to be even worse off if they continued the pregnancy.
There have been worse offenders than me.
Well, the good news is the Rockets can't play any worse offensively. Right?
