11.   Then a powerful father is going to make the situation worse.

12.   By chastising a horse, we only make a tense situation worse.

13.   And for months, the fund made the situation worse for the poor, requiring cuts in social programs before it would provide loans to forestall default.

14.   And, although they made the situation even worse, not one Finance Ministry bureaucrat has ever said anything that could be construed as contrition or apology.

15.   And the terrorist attacks only made the situation worse.

16.   Another round of heavy rains Wednesday night only made the situation worse.

17.   Blame the NHL and its commissioner Gary Bettman for making a bad situation worse.

18.   After that, he said, a bad situation was made worse when his ex-wife began to associate with drug users and prostitutes.

19.   But all expressed concern that the understanding ear Carter appeared to be giving to the Bosnian Serbs might make an already tangled situation worse.

20.   But American ineptitude has made a bad situation worse.