1.   Competition for the lowest price and consolidation in the health-care industry are making things worse.

2.   Getting angry will just make things worse.

3.   I shall argue that this reasonable conclusion is actually a big mistake, and that loss of vision makes things even worse.

4.   I struggled with an impulse to cross the room, but I knew it would only make things worse.

5.   If you take the line of least resistance or fail to be consistent, you will actually make things worse.

6.   Instead of making the traffic situation better, the new road has just made things worse.

7.   Irradiation would make things worse by destroying the warning spoilage bacteria and leaving pathogens untouched.

8.   Measures to slow down traffic on the main street have actually made things worse.

9.   The welfare system, runs this view, makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour.

10.   He warned that to negate the results of elections would only make things worse.