The utility was waiting to see how the storm developed through the night, he said, because freezing rain would greatly worsen the problems caused by the snow.

It will greatly worsen an already precarious situation and make the likelihood of large-scale violence much higher.

Two factors greatly worsened the effect.

The standing of each organisation with its host population in Belfast was far from good and such an outcome would have greatly worsened it.

The coalition's proposals would greatly worsen this state of affairs.

Making the tax cut permanent would greatly worsen those future deficits.

The Italian expedition greatly worsened relations between Otto and his son Liudolf, Duke of Swabia.

In time, Dead's social situation and his fascination with death caused his mental state to worsen greatly.

Those events set off a panicked exit by investors from all emerging markets, and greatly worsened Brazil's troubles.

Tensions between India and Pakistan worsened greatly after their nuclear weapons tests in 1998.