Sentence examples for depressing standard from inspiring English sources

In London Boris Johnson's decision to sack two successive police commissioners set the depressing standard.

But it's not enough to not be a rapist - what a depressing standard.

Their non-performing assets stood at 8% of outstanding loans at the end of last year very low by the region's depressing standards.

Depressing, by Ween standards, however, is really not all that melancholy.

It is, by any standards, a depressing story.

Today it is depressing, even by the standards of Russian industry: squalid, cramped, old-fashioned and dangerous and appallingly managed".We are not businessmen: we are honest people, producers," explains the general manager, Anatoly Fedyushin.

Meanwhile, the sections of "High and Mighty" detailing Detroit's seamy maneuverings to subvert, water down or simply bury legislation that dares seek more than minimal gains in fuel mileage and clean air standards are depressing reading.

The report from the Care Quality Commission that a quarter of home care services are not meeting all the quality and safety standards makes depressing reading.

'Because the only conclusion is such a depressing one - that the standard of public debate is so lamentably low; what's good or satisfying about that?' He was mildly depressed, too, at the predictability of reactions; for the debate often nosed towards a simple argument over censorship, or a discussion about the media.

Detractors say while the plans might be of a much higher standard than the depressing array of substandard constructions hugging the Black Sea, the sheer scale of the resort will do lasting damage to the natural habitat.

The double standards are as depressing as the way we react to them, and report them.