Sentence examples for poorly situated from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court, with its lack of enforcement power and limited jurisdiction, is poorly situated to rein in executive power.

This year's mudslides, which killed 300, are not unprecedented: poorly situated Gonaïves was flooded in 2004 by tropical storm Jeanne, killing 3,000.

Moreover, Lisbon, while an ideal starting point for voyages around the Cape, proved poorly situated as a distribution centre for spice to northern and central Europe.

He regarded what few overseas possessions France then had as ultimate sources of liquid wealth, which they were poorly situated to furnish because they lacked such supplies of bullion as Spain controlled in Mexico and Peru.

The subjects of these three essays -- the growth of the domestic marijuana business, the plight of illegal immigrants working the strawberry fields of California and the development of the pornography business in the last half century -- are poorly situated within a larger narrative; connections among them are only cursorily explored.

Overwhelmed by the choices (multiple rooms, multiple possibilities) and confounded by a difficult living room (not enough wall space, not enough seating, pocket doors, French doors, lots of toys), I sat on my poorly situated sofa (too close to the curtainless windows, too far from the coffee table) and froze.

There were a total of 2254 taluks in India, of which 1101 44.855%) were situated in poorly performing provinces.

The voting center in Guatemala's historic center was situated in a poorly lit parking facility underneath the city's central square.

It must be noted, however, that the component lineages of these orders are situated in the poorly supported regions and that monophyly of the orders is not rejected with statistical confidence (Table 1).

This value-based commitment of the clinician to the individual patient is poorly understood and little appreciated by those policymakers whose priorities are situated at the population or societal level, and vice versa.

State and municipal governments, which usually fare poorly at the Supreme Court, won numerous cases on liberty issues, from unequal tax burdens on similarly situated taxpayers and criminal interrogation of prisoners against their wishes, to strip searches of people arrested on minor offenses and double jeopardy.