Sentence examples for on poor terms from inspiring English sources

Indeed, as we soon learn, Gwen is on poor terms with other people.

What if your parents are dead or elderly, or you are on poor terms with them and cannot ask?

On poor terms with the Garibaldians, he resigned and returned to Turin, resuming his post of minister of interior.

"Even when I was having meetings with him he was getting calls from people asking for money," says Fish. "He also told me about an experience of another contractor who left on poor terms".

Mr Medvedev is a lawyer; Mr Ivanov is, like the president, an ex-KGB man who is linked to the so-called siloviki (but he is on poor terms with Igor Sechin, the silovik deputy head of the administration, often thought to be Mr Putin's right-hand man).Promoting both men simultaneously is a classic, Soviet-style manoeuvre.

But the two men remained generally on poor terms until Hooke's death.

Dawn Group meats At the South Wales Dawn Pac meat plant, Unite Amicus say between 500-600 Polish migrants are employed through an agency, and that local staff have been steadily replaced in the last three years by agency workers on poorer terms and conditions.

So much damage has been done to staff morale and turnover that many newer members of staff who started on poorer terms and conditions left very quickly, threatening consistency of care – particularly vital with mental health when trust is so crucial to recovery – and informal knowledge about people who use services is so important.

Unite claimed the company had told staff they could lose their jobs and be reemployed on poorer terms unless they agreed to give up their final salary pension, and accept pay freezes and pay cuts, by 18 00 on Monday.

The Taliban-led regime was on very poor terms with the international community and increasingly tempted by radical gestures.

There are now accumulating data that PET/CT could be used as the first, rather than the last test to assess M- and N-stage for evaluating cancers with an intermediate to high pre-test likelihood of metastatic disease based on poor long-term survival.