Sentence examples for particularly bad shape from inspiring English sources

The financial community, whose bonuses usually ease state deficits, is in particularly bad shape.

In Italy, 90% of companies fall into that category, and banks' balance-sheets are in particularly bad shape.

A frieze of poured concrete, spelling "Storefront for Art and Architecture," is in particularly bad shape: the final E now resembles an L with two drooping appendages.

Opponents of the president said they were confused by his assertion, since it implied that the economy was in particularly bad shape.

While Italy is in particularly bad shape, the severity of the downturn across the euro zone was driven home by the report Friday.

Mr. Gammell, a former college football player, was never in particularly bad shape, but he struggled to fit exercise into 70-hour workweeks when he became a financial analyst at Google.

Nor was the trial proof that South Africa's legal system is in particularly good, or bad, shape.

"The West Coast, particularly San Francisco, is in bad shape, and Boston is not too good".

As director of the pension agency, Mr. Kandarian proposed charging higher insurance premiums to companies that invested their pension funds in riskier assets, particularly companies that were in bad shape themselves.

This year is shaping up to be a particularly bad one, on track to match the worst year ever.

This year's flu season is shaping up to be "worse than average and particularly bad for the elderly," Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the nation's top federal disease-control official, said Friday.