Make no mistake, Tesco may be ailing, but Clarke could yet blow its rivals out of the water.
"So when Sisi stepped forward and did what he did, it was seen as a heroic act, taking a last-step measure to save the country from an ailing economy and a religious autocracy".
EU leaders were under renewed pressure today to agree immediate steps towards a full-scale rescue of ailing eurozone economies or risk a stock market rout when exchanges open on Monday.
Maricel, 36, sobbed as she said she wanted to return to her children, aged seven and 11, who were being cared for by her ailing parents in the Philippines.
We, as an ailing nation, need that to be true.
After a failed "kidnapping" of him and another sister as schoolchildren, the obese and gormless Jean-Claude, a poor student, was next heard of in 1971 when his ailing father named him as the country's next "president-for-life" and had him endorsed in a rigged referendum (2,391,916 to one, with two abstentions).
Monahan came to the ailing Flames after being drafted sixth overall this summer, and by way of a captaincy at the 67s, where he posted good numbers on an otherwise unimpressive 2012-13 team.
"It could have been a great way to show that we are a different kind of party and instead we had an ailing leader reinforcing the idea that it's all about one person".
His main concern was that the unions should be able to pursue their cause with all the main political parties, and he was sometimes annoyed and frustrated that they spent too much time in trying to prop up an ailing party with money and help.
But deliveries are not due to start until 2017, and neither Cameron nor anyone else can be sure that Sultan Qaboos, the ailing tyrant who seized the Omani throne with British help 44 years ago, will be there to receive them – or who may eventually end up using them.
In October, Dave Lewis, Tesco's new chief executive, decided the eight-year-old video business will be sold, or shut, as the retailer refocuses on its core, ailing grocery business.
