The phrase "a poor situation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a circumstance that is unfavorable or difficult.
Example: "The company found itself in a poor situation after the sudden loss of its major client."
Alternatives: "a difficult situation" or "an unfortunate circumstance."
The MVA penalties have been reduced recently but it still means we are locked into a poor situation.
"The bottom line in shooting an auto show is to make the best of a poor situation," said John Rettie, a California-based auto photographer.
They learned that female humpbacks on the prowl prefer the largest males on the breeding ground, while smaller males gravitate toward smaller females — apparently so as "to run less risk of a big male coming over and beating you up," said Adam Pack, a biologist and psychologist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. "It's basically making the best of a poor situation," he added.
"But so many people live in such a poor situation.
"It's a poor situation we're in at the minute," added the Northern Ireland international.
"Nobody at the UCI seems able to confirm when the next track races will be, and that is a poor situation.
It's got all the drama of a young person emigrating from a very poor situation in her home country, trying to find a better life, and still hankering for the country she left behind.
He came to the United States illegally in 1996 because, he said, "we were in a very poor situation in my country".
This was a poor, poor situation". The BBC's Stephen Evans, in Berlin, said Mr Burger was frank in saying that health officials simply didn't know where the particularly virulent strain of of E.coli came from.
If they're in a financially poor situation I think they need pleasures, so smoking, drinking, gambling.
There's a rich versus poor situation in this country.
