Sentence examples for a poor account from inspiring English sources

Compared to the oxygen theory that replaced it, quasi-alchemical phlogiston provided a poor account of combustion.

Housing minister Kris Hopkins gave a poor account of himself, too, fighting for airtime and parroting statistics which the committee itself (having received hours of evidence by dozens of advisers and analysts) did not recognise.

It is shown that current PDP models provide a poor account of naming monosyllable items, and that distributed representations make it difficult for these models to scale up to more complex language phenomena.

This means in part that a particular theory of friendship might be criticized in terms of the way in which its account of the intimacy of friendship yields a poor account of the sense in which activity is shared.

For example, to many in the seventeenth century, Newton's account of gravitation, involving action at a distance with no underlying explanation, seemed a poor account, in that respect at least, when compared, for example, to Ptolemy's explanation of the motion of the planets in terms of contiguous crystalline spheres or to Descartes' explanation in terms of vortices.

Even Francis Fukuyama, the one-time doyen of the neo-cons who famously granted neo-classical economics the capacity to be right "approximately eighty percent of the time," was adamant that, even so, there was "a missing twenty percent of human behavior about which neoclassical economics can give only a poor account".

In spite of all this, GBD2000 considerably underreported the disability that migraine imposed on people throughout the world, and gave a very poor account of headache disorders collectively.

In all 12 items, the respondents who answered "poor" account for a large proportion, and those who answered "good" account for a small proportion.

Pensions consume two-thirds of social spending; health and education, universal programmes that offer little extra benefit to the poor, account for much of the rest.

Subsequently, our primary focus has been to work with organizations like WaterAid America, WASH Advocates, and World Vision to ensure that the Water for the Poor account is adequately funded.

Today, the poor account for more than 20% of patients.