Sentence examples for a lousy option from inspiring English sources
Rural consumers, who are doing well and are often outside the formal financial system, are shifting to richer diets, pushing up food prices.That leaves the RBI with a lousy option, to temper demand by disproportionately hitting the narrow range of activity that is sensitive to interest rates, in particular private-sector investment.
"I think it's not just that people are saying that the automobile is such a lousy option that they are going to take the subway," said Jeffrey M. Zupan, a senior transportation fellow at the Regional Plan Association, a nonprofit group that advises governments on development.
However, the option in which you get 2 utiles for sure seems a lousy option given the other possibilities available.
–Overall this week, the Government has been pretty diligent in its efforts to make seeking asylum in Australia a pretty lousy option. .
"We have two really lousy options," said Michael A. Paulson, a reporter, who said in late afternoon that he was still undecided.
The problem — in the words of Kurt Campbell, who worked on the issue in the Clinton Defense Department and is now a program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies — is that "Korea is the Land of Lousy Options".
"The alternatives — to back off or go in militarily — are lousy options.
"You're given lousy options, yes, but that's better than nothing at all".
"You're given lousy options, yes, but that's better than nothing at all," he said in October.
This approach is no silver bullet, but, in the "land of lousy options," as diplomats call the North Korea problem, it is as good as any, in part because it does not rest on a false understanding of the other party.
What they would like is for everyone to move along to thinking only about the Ryder Cup, shifting all pressure to the shoulders of the United States captain, Corey Pavin, who, as Ray Ratto writes on CBSSports.com, has the choice of two lousy options in whether or not to add Tiger Woods to the team.
