Sentence examples for at best poor from inspiring English sources

"The National Water Program had good intentions but its execution was at best poor".

Yet none of that day's investigative activities were recorded in the case file, the foreign panelists said, suggesting, at best, poor detective work and, at worst, the manipulation or planting of evidence.

The report identifies "serious governance issues that exist in a small number of schools in east Birmingham as a result of, at best, poor skills, and at worst, serious malpractice, by members of certain governing bodies".

Much about ballet is bad and is worth trashing; much about it is artistically tawdry and hidebound in bad tradition; and most of its current choreographers are at best poor.

In another fraud case filed against Mr. Hotton in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Justice Judith J. Gische wrote that "Mark C. Hotton is a savvy businessman and his defenses show at best, poor judgment, and at worst, admissions of criminal conduct".

The report was highly critical of poor or damaging governance, saying: "There are some serious governance issues that exist in a small number of schools in east Birmingham as a result of, at best, poor skills, and at worst, serious malpractice by members of certain governing bodies".

But to run for mayor of New York so quickly after a scandal is, at best, in poor taste.

Nobody who we think is good – AND everybody else – say they are at best a poor organisation.

Peter Woit, a mathematical physicist at Columbia University in New York, was quoted in Nature as saying: "It's plain obvious that there was either zero, or at best very poor, peer review, of his own papers".

Unfortunately it's even sadder that Mr. Heller should cap his own inspired -- and sometimes brilliant -- career with "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man," an anticlimactic book that is, at best, a poor imitation of a novel.

Sadly the introductory titles are interesting at best and poor at worst.