11.   We need to take positive steps to improve the situation of families in poverty.

12.   What I am concerned about is that electricity privatisation will not lend itself to improving the situation.

13.   What, then, can practitioners do to improve the situation?

14.   With training and new work possibilities, I believe we will gradually be able to improve their situation.

15.   You would think from the figures for deaths and illness from Western diseases that little was being done to improve the situation.

16.   Changes in the law have done little to improve the situation.

17.   Almost nothing was done to improve the situation.

18.   The management is doing its best to improve the situation.

19.   This tangibly demonstrated that the world situation could be improved.

20.   People have been waiting impatiently for a chance to improve the situation.