The phrase "abysmal track record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very poor history of performance or results in a particular area or context.
Example: "The company's abysmal track record in customer service has led to a significant loss of clients over the years."
Alternatives: "dismal history" or "poor performance record".
It concluded that an "abysmal track record" had left him lurching from "political disaster to disaster", according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
(And, worryingly, the study of trauma has both a dubious intellectual history and an abysmal track record, not least because of its role in the sexual-abuse scandals of the eighties and the recovered-memory travesty of the nineties).
Later in the ruling, he continued, "Instead of facing hard facts and asking hard questions about the city's abysmal track record of hiring black and Hispanic firefighters, the Bloomberg administration dug in and fought back".
The US embassy in London wrote off Gordon Brown within a year of his arrival in No 10 after concluding that an "abysmal track record" had left him lurching from "political disaster to disaster", according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
"Fairfax Media has an abysmal track record and our intention is – should we be in a position to have sufficient seats to influence the board, which it is doubtful two seats would bring, should only two seats by offered – we would like to aim toward making Fairfax media sustainable".
By winning the leadership contest, Ms. Murata, who is widely known by just her first name, became the third woman to take up a prominent political job in Japan in less than two months, heralding a budding shift in a country with an abysmal track record of putting women in power.
These industry giants possess abysmal track records in terms of their emissions and are cozily nestled within a five-block radius of the school.
And when these cross-border corporate takeovers involve companies with a history of food safety problems and countries with abysmal track records for food and worker safety, our government should refuse to let them go forward.
"We regularly hire companies that have abysmal track records of performance, but great track records [in] political campaign contributions," said one former state representative from Florida, critical of the state's juvenile justice system full of past reports of missing and abused inmates.
And it's hard to simultaneously believe in that principle and call for someone's views to be banned, regardless of how abysmal his track record is.
Many noted the irony of Snowden, a champion of freedom of information, stopping first in even the freest part of the People's Republic of China, given that country's abysmal secrecy and surveillance track record.
