Sentence examples for dismal level from inspiring English sources
For much of his first decade as principal, the college chugged along, albeit with a dismal level of funding.
The manufacturing sector in the mid-Atlantic region contracted in January to its most dismal level in more than a decade, the regional Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said yesterday.
One reason is that the price domestic gas producers receive has been tightly capped at a dismal level: between $2 and $5 per million British thermal units (it varies by field and producer).
"The moral I carry from both the Columbia disaster and the blackout is the dismal level of technical expertise of this country's managers," said Robert Blohm, an adviser to the North American Electric Reliability Council, the industry group that was set up after the great blackout of 1965 to prevent recurrences.
Whereas previous controllers were charged with building Radio 2's audience up from a fairly dismal level - for which I take no personal responsibility - it falls to the new boss, who also takes charge of 6 Music, to convince a newly sceptical public that the two networks are providing value for our money.
As for American prestige in Egypt, it has declined under Obama from the dismal level of the Bush years, with the anti-Morsi crowds convinced that the U.S. and its Ambassador, Anne Patterson, were conspiring to keep the Muslim Brotherhood in power, and the Islamists equally convinced that the Americans had conspired to throw Morsi out.
Work on M&A and initial public offerings has recovered from dismal levels.
These dismal levels of ethnic minority voter registration coincide in this election with a situation where the black and minority ethnic (BME) vote could, were it mobilised, determine the result in 168 marginal seats.
The dismal levels of R&D funding these days may even make it seem like the right approach.
Homebuyer confidence is at dismal levels these days, with more than half of all consumers surveyed by ZipRealty saying the Obama plan has no impact on their desire to spend.
(See "Base Metals Go Back To Basics").. Terry Fanous, a senior vice president at Moody's Global Corporate Finance, said the base metals industry isn't in recovery mode it has merely stabilized from the dismal levels that plagued the sector earlier in the year.
