Sentence examples for because of the mediocre from inspiring English sources

(Because of the mediocre pay and the large amount of schooling, most people in philosophy come from privileged backgrounds).. Consult the Philosophical Gourmet Report, hosted by Blackwell's publishing.

And he said he did not know how many had given the tickets up because of the Knicks' mediocre performance or out of financial necessity.

Assuming it is acceptable to be dishonest in business dealings simply because "everyone else is doing it" will get Nigeria nowhere; likewise will accepting the rule of the mediocre because "that's just the way it is".

LINE TO REMEMBER "Modesty is the camouflage of the mediocre.

His pace is even better this season, partly because of a mediocre start by Prince Fielder, the cleanup hitter who bats in front of McGehee.

Học was an alumnus of Hanoi's Commercial School, who had been stripped of a scholarship because of his mediocre academic performance.

Most recently, and most to the point, the RokR flopped because of mediocre software and hardware design.

He made his ODI debut in 2002 and had a short stint before being dropped and missing the 2003 Cricket World Cup because of mediocre performance.

Many of these failed to rise to the great heights of imposturous expression because, like mediocre practitioners in all the other arts, they were more interested in material things and in fame than they were in the private satisfactions of creative accomplishment.

Read Too Big To Fail, the mediocre narrative of mediocre financial types in their playpens by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times.

In a randomized and double-blind trial for glioblastoma multiforme, adding chloroquine to conventional treatment including TMZ showed mediocre results, probably because of the small sample size [ 54].