Sentence examples for is unusually poor from inspiring English sources

But Georgia is unusually poor at funding its roads: the state ranks 49th for per capita transportation funding.

According to a 2008 survey of such studies by Alan Krueger of Princeton University, they have found little evidence that the typical terrorist is unusually poor or badly schooled.

For Ms. Prince the fit was unusually poor, and the brand was more like a trap.

In Mr Smithers's view, this explains why the productivity numbers in America and Britain have been unusually poor in recent years.Mr Smithers is something of a maverick in financial and economic circles but he makes a powerful case just as he did in 2000, when his book, "Valuing Wall Street", pointed to the excesses of the dotcom bubble.

The United States is anomalous among industrialized countries in the high proportion of people we incarcerate; likewise, we stand out in the high proportion of people who have no medical care — and partly as a result, our health care outcomes such as life expectancy and infant mortality are unusually poor.

We do a good job of educating our clergy but are unusually poor when it comes to educating our laity on various theological methods.

In 2010, the British Grand Prix at Gateshead was chosen as one of the inaugural fourteen Diamond League events, but although competitors included Tyson Gay, Powell, Jessica Ennis and Vincent Chepkok, the attendance was unusually poor, causing the local press to wonder whether Gateshead's contract for the marquee event would be renewed.

However, whatever the explanation for these complex trends there is nothing to suggest that British survival rates have been unusually poor.

We found a significant effect of AMM exposure on growth and development of glands; significant delays were seen at each of these time points except PND33 (Table 4; development in the PND33 control group was unusually poor compared with that of historical controls); these developmental delays were consistently detectable in whole mounts of the fourth and fifth inguinal glands.

But for those who mind most, complaining about poor deathbed treatment is unusually difficult.

Poor living conditions are posited as an underlying cause of American Indian (AI) infant mortality, which is unusually high in the postneonatal period.