Sentence examples for dreadful standard from inspiring English sources

Local leaders such as Joko Widodo, mayor of the city of Solo in Central Java, and Herry Zudianto, his counterpart in nearby Yogyakarta, have done much to make citizens feel that it is in their democratic power to improve the often dreadful standard of public services.

But the France half-back sliced the difficult conversion attempt, which was at least consistent with the dreadful goalkicking standards in a match of 15 tries but only five goals.

The Bucks, whose average of 91.3 points per game before Monday was last in the league, lived up (or down) to their dreadful scoring standards.

Ringwood's Lapland became a gold standard for dreadful Christmas events.

Sainsbury's second-quarter sales weren't dreadful by the recent standards of Tesco and Morrisons.

One idealistic junior nurse, who complained repeatedly that standards were dreadful, was threatened and silenced.

That so much information keeps coming out is proof, they say, of a dreadful decline in journalistic standards and of the existence of "a vast right-wing conspiracy".

Saunders said he was sure that Brooks would forgive him if he said his client "wasn't academically gifted" but that "over the years he has done well even if along the way there have been a few mishaps" including a "dreadful" column in the Evening Standard and a string of failed business ventures related to horses.

Because that's a dreadful drawing, by anyone's standards.

But Mr. Pollin's Capitals got off to a dreadful start, even by the standards of expansion teams.

They are brilliant at solving the engineering problems associated with running the biggest social media platform in the universe, but dreadful at defining the community standards that govern what appears in their news feed.