Sentence examples for make a poor showing from inspiring English sources

He was expected to make a poor showing at the polls - his party has fallen out of favour with the general population - but instead he has miraculously won a term in office.

Among the "most important" questions now facing the nation, he states, are why we are losing technical jobs, why our young people make a poor showing on international science and math tests, why "the world is racing us to the top, not the bottom, and why we are quietly falling behind".

He had not campaigned in his own neighborhood, which he had taken for granted and where he made a poor showing.

Clinton made a poor showing among young women in Iowa.

By Macy Halford April 10, 2009 The human race makes a poor showing in this week's selections.

The human race makes a poor showing in this week's selections.

Davis withdrew his candidacy, however, and the party made a poor showing at the polls.

One subject which makes a poor showing is music, though Art did make time to read Patrick Humphries Bookendss - The Simon and Garfunkel Story in June 1983.

Many experts believe that Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's chances of winning the presidency would have been hurt if his party made a poor showing in the legislative elections.

Another component, orders for nondefense capital equipment excluding aircraft, is seen as a good reflection of businesses' plans to invest; that, too, made a poor showing in January.

The Communists, torn by dis sension since the Soviet‐led in vasion of neighboring Czecho slovakia in 1968, made a poor showing today and remained again without any representa tion in Parliament.