Actually, let's be very clear: They've done worse than nothing.
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But at least one chamber may settle on a solution that's worse than nothing.
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Propublica recently found that offsets for forest preservation may be worse than nothing at all.
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Some claiming to do good for the climate may actually do nothing — or worse than nothing.
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Lori is expected to submit to her pimp, even when he's doing worse than nothing for her.
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In the long run, a hearing aid that doesn't work or fit can be worse than nothing.
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"Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing," according to the English Wikipedia's translation guide.
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Middle-class and working-class Republican voters, he insisted, were voting against their own economic self-interest and getting worse than nothing in return.
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In fact, it is worse than nothing, because it sends the message to the North Korean dictator that the international community is unwilling to seriously challenge him.
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He told The Washington Post that airlines' environmental initiatives and marketing campaigns are "worse than nothing, because it perpetuates a myth that we can keep flying like this."
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If you're coughing and sneezing, you should probably wear a mask right now, but if not, a poorly fitted mask you're frequently adjusting with potentially contaminated hands is worse than nothing.
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Or maybe Rhetoric was even worse than nothing, because, if you got nothing, you could find another job, but with Rhetoric you had to teach five days a week for sixty-four hundred dollars a year.
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Actually, worse than nothing, because Bibi Netanyahu's government has steadily implanted more settlers deep inside Palestinian-populated areas of the West Bank — now 224,000 — beyond the settlement blocs that Israel might keep in any two-state peace deal.
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So repeal proponents often seize on very real ways in which the law's benefits fall short, to try to make the case that somehow the ACA system is actually worse than nothing for the people who are in it.
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And yet a partial bill could end up being worse than nothing, especially if its benefits don't live up to expectations, and if Congress, which has many other pressing matters to attend to, decides it's had enough of the topic.
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Demand for the riskiest — and often the most rewarding — form of bank capital debt, known as CoCo bonds, has risen sharply in recent months as the return on the bonds of Germany and other countries have dwindled to worse than nothing.
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Demand for the riskiest — and often the most rewarding — form of bank capital debt, known as CoCo bonds, has risen sharply in recent months as the return on the bonds of Germany and other countries have dwindled to worse than nothing.
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But climate hawks should remain sensitive to the possibility that more solar is not always and everywhere better — that in some circumstances, more mandated solar could be worse than nothing, insofar as it crowds out cheaper low-carbon alternatives and raises costs without improving outcomes.
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Richard's devastation over the deaths of his wife and daughter — that backpack was heartbreaking — and his self-blame over "doing nothing" led him to repeatedly do things that were actually worse than nothing, as he tried to make up for past failures instead of dealing with his pain and moving forward.
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As telenovelas are inherently implausible and cartoonish, both Hispanic and non- Hispanic audiences scorned the new adaptations.Plot Twists for Genre By Luis Clemens -- Multichannel News, October 16, 2006 Reviewers were resoundingly negative. For example, TV Guide's Matt Roush called one "something worse than nothing." Robert P. Laurence of the San Diego Union-Tribune complained of "amateurish acting, cheap sets and tedious scripts."SignOnSanDiego.
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Laura Snapes of Pitchfork wrote that these can be "overwhelming", though she credited them for "attempting to offer a nuanced understanding of a broken world at a time when a lot of their significantly less imaginative British indie rock peers say worse than nothing". Critics also commented on the contrast between lyrical themes and underlying music. Digital Spy's Harry Fletcher wrote that there is "something eminently Mancunian" about the clash in styles. Uncut praised the band's "innovative songcraft", but added "their tendency to overthink and squeeze every drop of pleasure from their work does them few favours", while Mojo suggested that they were "self-consciously dialing everything up to 11 before things go up in flames".
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As late as 1946, shortly before his death, Keynes declared eugenics to be "the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists." Keynes once remarked that "the youth had no religion save communism and this was worse than nothing." Marxism "was founded upon nothing better than a misunderstanding of Ricardo", and, given time, he (Keynes) "would deal thoroughly with the Marxists" and other economists to solve the economic problems their theories "threaten to cause". In 1931 Keynes had the following to say on Marxism: Keynes was a firm supporter of women's rights and in 1932 became vice-chairman of the Marie Stopes Society which provided birth control education.
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