Sentence examples for mediocre nation from inspiring English sources

What are you thinking?" If you want to guarantee that America becomes a mediocre nation, then just keep vilifying every public figure struggling to find a way out of this crisis who stumbles once — like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or A.I.G.'s $1-a-year 1-a-year 1-a-yeard Liddy — and you'll ensure that no capable person enlists in government.

But then it would just be, at best, another mediocre nation with a market orientation, a place cast in deep shadow by its far more succcessful neighbor glittering to the south.

It's a 40 percent nation, mediocre in the world rankings, but not a basket case.

Won't a mediocre and backward nation be bullied?" Mr. Zhou, whose real name is Zhou Changyi, said he used a pseudonym in part to protect his daughter from harassment at the top public high school she attends.

He will have his chance to feast on a mediocre Oklahoma State defense that ranks 100th in the nation against the pass.

And it suggests that the angry, worried debate over how to improve the nation's mediocre education — pitting the teachers' unions and the advocates of more money for public schools against the champions of school vouchers and standardized tests — is missing the most important part: infants and toddlers.

The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010.

VS Naipaul managed to combine a love of Indians with a healthy contempt for the nation's mostly mediocre intelligentsia; this is something French fails to do.

When a president's policies diverge so clearly from our country's principles, it is perfectly acceptable to distinguish between the great nation and its mediocre leader.

Safranski, who also wrote Romanticism – A German Affair, points to the nation's current mediocre capacity for the grandeur of Schiller's passions, observing: "From a romantic point of view, we've reached the end.

America's precollege science and math education is mediocre enough to threaten the nation's continued scientific supremacy in today's "changed world" of globalized science, warns Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, NSB's latest biennial report on the state of the nation's research enterprise, which was released in February.