Germany thus looks destined either to be governed with mediocre policies or to suffer months of uncertainty and paralysis, ultimately leading to new elections.
In fact, the mediocre foreign policy of Obama is even more troubling in that U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel appears to be failing to follow his own guidance.
Long on polemics and short on the very strategy the address claims to extol, Romney's speech reads like a mediocre freshman foreign policy essay restating the obvious -- simplistic, long-winded window dressing masquerading as effective, reasoned strategic policy.
Despite a great spirit of voluntarism amongst his grassroots loyalists and many well-intentioned government officials, Chavez's government has been extremely mediocre in actual policy implementation.
Despite a great spirit of voluntarism amongst his grassroots loyalists and many well-intentioned government officials, Chávez's government has been extremely mediocre in actual policy implementation.
The British are offered exclusively middle of the road policies from mediocre politicians.
When you do, what happens is that good policy is sabotaged into mediocre or bad policy - all in pursuit of meaningless political aesthetics (And the good news is that at least some congressional Democrats get this and are pushing amendments that move the economic stimulus bill in a far more progressive direction).
Jaramillo (1998), in an insightful country case study of the Colombian agriculture and rural sector, examines the economic impact of policy reforms and the mediocre economic performance of agriculture during the 1990s on the incomes of the rural poor.
Mr. Romney, he charged, lacked sufficient "hands-on foreign policy experience" and had a mediocre record as governor of Massachusetts.
The viewing figures for the whole first series, which averaged at around 7 million, were considered mediocre but owing to the BBC's policy of nurturing television shows, a second series was commissioned for 1982.
