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Yet if it looks as if it might lose the presidency, things could turn nastier.

Even if things take a nastier turn and she's downright argumentative, she may just be trying to show off her smarts or get under your skin.

"Ever so much nastier, " Mr. Darling said bravely, "and I would take it now as an example to you, Michael, if I hadn't lost the bottle. "

Sir Lawrence stayed in his armchair thinking: "Putting my oar in! A nasty mess, and going to be nastier! "

But last month it returned to its customary kidnappings and sabotage. Moreover, the violence has got nastier and more indiscriminate.

The optimistic mood in Davos can be seductive, but the nastier reality of the still-troubled global economy has made its presence felt.

Some modern laptop hard drives have an even nastier habit of throwing away their write cache whenever the system is rebooted or suspended.

Shredding the document into individual nodes to be stored in separate records is even nastier.

And if not? Then the next slip on the tightrope could be much nastier.

We cannot be certain that the virus will not get nastier.

Most obviously, how these countries fare will determine whether the world economy faces a mild recession or something nastier.

Much nastier has been the assertion that Mr Obama once backed a bill that would give kindergarten children comprehensive sex education.

Unless matters take a nastier turn, neither side has much incentive to compromise.

It has also softened this same principle as applied to some of its nastier diplomatic friends, such as Myanmar and Sudan.

THE crackdown on Yemen's growing opposition movement is getting much nastier.

A spate of teen suicides triggered by antigay bullying has spurred a kind of national soul searching: Is high school getting nastier?

Some have taken Mr. Aquilina's comments to suggest that rich are a 'nasty bunch of people who are only getting nastier. '

Above all, there is a worry that the slightest provocation could turn things much nastier.

The Democratic race has been longer and nastier; but on June 3rd it too produced probably the right result (see article).

The mix is made even nastier by the pesticides and antibiotics needed to keep the crop alive.

The Cradle is the nastier second cousin to the Judas Cradle. We believe the picture does all the explaining for us.

For one thing, the level of political discourse will only get nastier.

But as I went on, a nastier thought occurred to me.

This is politics as homeopathy: using bad ideas in small doses, in the hope of staving off a nastier ailment.

But it could also make the battles over patents nastier and more costly.

But if you push yourself with any viral infection, there is the possibility of developing something nastier such as pneumonia.

Deleting everything doesn't help: the nastier things will come back even nastier and the nice ones may go for ever.

Slowdowns rarely look nastier than the 3. 8 per cent year-on-year fall in output in the final quarter of 2008.

Followed by the even nastier, pithy review of another editor