Yet on the specifics, Iraqis appear less optimistic: when asked about their neighbourhoods, 68.6% think the availability of jobs is bad, compared with 25.6% who think it is good, 64.4% think the supply of electricity supply is bad, while 34.9% think it is good, 50.1% think the security situation is bad, compared with 48.9% who think it is good.
The July Belgian BNB index showed a balance of 10.8% of respondents who felt that business conditions were bad compared with those who thought business was good, a slight improvement over June's 11.0% reading.
"It's not bad compared to Europe, but it's bad compared to South Korea".
That decline is horrid by historical standards, but it is not bad compared with the performance in many other countries.
This is not bad compared with even the recent past, but not as good as it could be.
Nearly 60percentt of black respondents said race relations were generally bad, compared with 34percentt of whites.
Still, some say Fifth Avenue isn't bad compared with two other exclusive Upper East Side areas: Sutton Place, in the East 50s, and East End Avenue, in the 80s.
Yes, the ONS was fairly bad compared with many countries' both because we didn't allow for double deflation and had a bad habit of collecting the wrong sort of data, but he didn't want to commit himself too far.
The performance of standard packets (2DH1) is very bad compared with proposed cases.
And while growth in the rate of people employed full-time in South Australia is not too bad compared with most of the other states, it is still nothing much to write home about.
