Sentence examples for appalling achievement from inspiring English sources
Under pressure from what was then the department of health, education and welfare to close the appalling achievement gap between black and white students, the Texarkana, Arkansas public schools adopted performance contracting.
That Mrs Brown pulled off such a feat while attracting universally appalling reviews compounds the achievement.
This season Liverpool reached the League Cup semi-final, losing only after two gruelling duels with Chelsea, and they hope to go far in the Europa League and FA Cup as well as complete their recovery in the Premier League by finishing in the top four, which would be a fine achievement after their appalling start.
However, there is a much smaller group of schools in which achievement levels are appalling.
We must take this opportunity to turn our attention towards the appalling discrepancies in black male achievement on a grander scale.
Amplifying an appalling fact of history, it is an artistic achievement and a civic achievement for Vienna, too, where a reckoning with the Nazi past was overdue.
The battle sequences dramatising the Guaraní war of 1756 are superbly recreated, but the exceptional technical achievement doesn't detract from the appalling reality.
The leaders we have trouble dealing with are those of obvious talent and genuine achievement who turn out to have displayed appalling ethical insensitivity -- or worse.
Whatever the achievements of Israel's superior army and its anti-missile systems, and however appalling the devastation of Gaza, Hamas will survive, if only because Israel wants it to.
For anyone who can make it to the sea wall in less than two minutes, the game offers an "achievement," a kind of digital medal awarded to those who have won the ballistics lottery against appalling odds.
Neither Deutscher nor Carr has found Stalin's truly appalling record sufficiently impressive to raise doubts about the ultimate value of the Russian October Revolution's historic achievements.
