Sentence examples for poor bargain from inspiring English sources

AMERICA'S medical system has long seemed a poor bargain.

From a fat-consumption point of view, he says, "trading cheese for milk has been a poor bargain indeed".

The mostly poor bargain hunters squeezed the fruit, smiled or scowled over their fingers' findings and parted with their pennies and dollars.

England might, thus, simply be lagging behind America in the medical impact of prolonged obesity.The study also has an intriguing implication: that America's medical system may not be such a poor bargain after all.

But all along, some council members privately shared their belief that the mayor's near-obsession with the arena had led him to strike a poor bargain with both the state and the YankeeNets, owners of the teams.

A potential buyer unwilling to do the difficult job of carefully examining a property to see whether it's a good buy may simply eliminate from a property search any home that's been on sale for longer than, say, 100 days, assuming that other potential buyers have looked into the home and found it a poor bargain.

Critics have said that the government has repeatedly struck poor bargains over valuable assets.

Sellers often have little say in the timing of such sales, and are in a poor bargaining position.

He said that landlords who were late coming to the telecommunications market are in a particularly poor bargaining position.

Eta is not expected to dissolve, but is in a poor bargaining position after years in which police action has left it close to defeat.

And it means that should Dynegy decide to renegotiate, Enron would be in a very poor bargaining position unless it had another bidder.