It was a standard season for Mike Ashley's Newcastle: listless performances, inept management from top to bottom, a team battling the drop, a no show in the cups … but, even by our pitiful standards, this will take some beating.
If we conduct the debate to such pitiful standards, these political links would be sufficient evidence for us to brand Labour and the Liberal Democrats extremists, holding views by association which are beyond the pale.
Taken together, these "Fairtrade Plus" factors make FLO's own criteria for carrying the Fairtrade mark look like a rather pitiful base standard - no better than Assured Chicken Production for poultry, compared to the Gold Standard of the Soil Association for organic, free-range chicken.
Despite the fact that a third of new buildings fail to meet even our own pitiful official standards, there has not been a single prosecution for failure.
Their hut is pitiful even by the standards of Jhanwatola village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a state known primarily for its impossible poverty.
On top of that, their knowledge of classic works of literature was ― by McDaniel's standards ― pitiful.
It will be a glimpse into the future for both the government and the public where there'll be a pitiful lack of criminal defence solicitors who can offer rigorous, high-standard representation.
