Sentence examples for abysmal service from inspiring English sources

The critics of concierge medicine lament the fact that "boutique" doctors provide excellent treatment while most doctors can offer only rather abysmal service.

Delays, cancellations and generally abysmal service on the part of the monopoly private operator, Conferry, were cited by the government as the reasons for its decision, announced on September 26th, to nationalise the company.

Above all, says Richard Jerram of Macquarie Securities, Japan conspicuously lacks "that American feeling that if you don't want to do it yourself, you can pay somebody to do it for you".The most abysmal service sectors over the past decade have been those at the core of the banks' bad-debt woes: construction, property and distribution.

If a diner knows that he or she is on the line for 15 or 18 or 20percentt regardless of the service's quality, he or she may not adjust the tip upward for exemplary service, because he or she wouldn't have been allowed to adjust the tip downward for abysmal service.

The Federal Communications Commission has finally changed a nonsensical regulation that has been a key villain in the aggravatingly abysmal service provided to wireless cell phone users.

Unless we want to continue suffering the same abysmal service as with current cellular networks, the government should step out of the way of this progress and lift the cap sooner rather than later.

Iraqis have frequently complained that their leaders lived a sheltered existence in the safety of the Green Zone, its luxury villas and broad avenues, while they suffered from daily violence and abysmal services.

Ministers condemned HMRC for its "abysmal" customer service after an official report said half of all calls received in the first half of the year were not picked up — that's 12 million unanswered calls.

It started when the Irish carrier decided it was time to jettison its deliberately spiky image, in which it offered customers a Faustian bargain of abysmal customer service in return for low prices.

The consumer group's chief executive, Richard Lloyd, said: "Fewer players in a market is rarely a good thing, but now this deal has been approved both companies must urgently address their abysmal customer service record.

Re "For Hospital Menus, Overdue Surgery" (March 7): For years, I have been baffled as to why it is acceptable for a hospital, which normally charges many times what a luxury hotel charges, to get away with abysmal food service.