Sentence examples for dismal standard from inspiring English sources

But even by that dismal standard, this year marks a new low.

Still, a recent short hop I took on Horizon Air set a new dismal standard for cost efficiency.

Brazil's dismal standard of public education suddenly seems intolerable, prompting the president to campaign on the clunky slogan "development with income distribution and quality in education".

And, though patently unpopular among Serbs at large, thanks mainly to their continuing dismal standard of living, Mr Djindjic had been craftily consolidating power, seeking to bring, for instance, the army under his control.While putting himself squarely in the pro-western camp on most foreign issues, on Kosovo Mr Djindjic was ambiguous.

Even if it does and that is debatable, given the dismal standard of some of the BBC's own programmes the corporation is doing no good to the quality of its output by spreading the licence fee thinner and thinner.One cannot blame the BBC's bosses for striking out into new ground and settling new territory: they are bound to want their fief to grow rather than shrink.

Against the dismal standards of Russian history, that is a big achievement.

Even by the government's own dismal standards, this was a pretty bad thing to mess up.

And, by the dismal standards of most big Russian companies, Mr Chubais is probably running UES quite well.

Conditions for investment in Russia by the country's own, admittedly dismal, standards—have never been better.

By the dismal standards of Italy's record in coping with the aftermath of earthquakes, Silvio Berlusconi, Renzi's predecessor-but-two, did reasonably well.

Even by the dismal standards of what passes for a national debate on intelligence and civil liberties, last week was a really bad week.