Sentence examples for appear poor from inspiring English sources

The prospects of finding a buyer appear poor, in a deeply troubled industry, during a recession and a credit crisis.

Bruce Packard, banking analyst at Seymour Pierce, said: "This would appear poor timing for Santander, which might struggle to IPO [its UK arm] with an unfamiliar chief executive.

The executive summary points out that: "Individual poor decisions can result from flawed analysis and judgment in particular circumstances: many of the decisions that RBS made appear poor only with the benefit of hindsight.

If trade is the mortar holding together the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and the newcomer, South Africa — the omens would appear poor for the grouping, which will hold its annual summit meeting Thursday on the southern Chinese island of Hainan.

It is a rich kid who felt guilty about its spoiled rotten past and was trying to appear poor.

κ Values may appear poor, but the level of agreement is typical for clinical evaluation processes.

The fact that the government decided to uprate pensions in line with inflation by 5.2% makes other groups appear poorer even if their incomes have not changed.

* Households that trade more goods than hard currency might appear poorer in this table than they actually are.

In effect, the survival prospects of women diagnosed with recurrence at the Churchill Hospital appear poorer than those of their counterparts in the United States.

Their bone density appears poor.

But the picture that emerges is of a company whose growth appears to have been unsustainable and whose disclosure to shareholders appears poor.