In this context, the abrupt shift from being "soul mates" to harsh critics ill serves our long-range foreign policy goals.

This has resulted in an imbalance in the mercantile exchange which ill serves our overall relationship.

The distortions in coverage that marked December's parliamentary election campaign ill served Russia's democratic aspirations.

His debt to organized labor and special-interest minority groups will ill serve the nation should he become president.

Strangely, this late in the day, opponents still insist that cameras ill serve justice.

I agree with Mr. Siegman that anything less than a completely honest examination of the Holocaust would ill serve the needs of the dialogue.

He said that a hastily put together city program would ill serve immigrants and could boomerang on Mr. Giuliani.

In the case of broccoli, undercooking, while preserving crispness and certain nutrients, ill serves the nature of the vegetable itself.

It is becoming obvious that the President's lawyers ill served their client by attacking the independent counsel.

They would result in the purchase of cheaper products from outside the EU, which would ill serve the cause of sustainability.