Sentence examples for appalling quality from inspiring English sources

State primary and secondary schools were underfunded and of appalling quality.

But it also pointed to the appalling quality of education on offer.

WaMu and Wachovia were undone not by mark-to-market losses, after all, but by the appalling quality of their loan books.

The reissue isn't faultless – many of the extra tracks are appalling quality, and The Hudson Line still jars – but that just heightens its sense of how imperfect life is.

Buyers were saddled with cars of appalling quality, which constantly broke down and yet the waiting list to buy one could stretch up to eight years!

They manifested plenty of appalling qualities.

His own most appalling qualities will be projected on to his enemy.

Finally, the car scrappage scheme is a massive missed opportunity and holds out no hope in helping to tackle London's appalling air quality.

The festival, celebrated throughout the country, has been blamed in recent years for exacerbating the appalling air quality in the Indian capital, already the most-polluted city in the world, according to the World Health Organisation.

Such gestures annoy many Chinese, well acquainted though they are with their government's shortcomings and occasional brutality.Notwithstanding the smog that has enveloped Beijing for much of the last few days, few of the capital's citizens appreciate foreigners making a big fuss about the city's appalling air quality.

China's top officials were soon drafted into formatting a new position, one that would require limits to greenhouse gas emissions that would also benefit its citizens, suffering from the appalling air quality resulting from untrammelled coal-fired power stations and dirty industry, with new regulations forcing higher standards on all.