Sentence examples for proved poor from inspiring English sources

Problem: Rich countries have proved poor at delivering on their aid pledges.

In the words of the Vickers commission, "banks' debt proved poor at absorbing losses.

Still, Troy's wealth has proved poor inoculation against the financial problems of cities and states across the country.

Both proved poor investments, but many people at the time saw them as evidence that Japan was overtaking America.

H&M stumbled with its choice of Madonna back in March 2007, while Gap's choice of the French designer Roland Mouret, best known for his tailoring, proved poor.

But the pluses must be set against a loss of flexibility and freedom to allocate resources in an organisation that can never know for sure what war it will next be called upon to fight.Moreover, defence PFI deals have also proved poor at transferring risk from the government to suppliers.

In fact China's mountainous demand for the metal had barely reached the foothills (see chart 2).A stumble and a courtshipBHP's timing was as good as its rival's proved poor when, two years later, Rio won a desperate bidding battle for Alcan, a Canadian aluminium-maker.

The £46 billion ($71 billion) that taxpayers pumped into RBS and the £20 billion injected into Lloyds have proved poor investments without, of course, counting the huge economic damage that would have been inflicted had either bank collapsed.At the moment the government seems content simply to recover the money it spent bailing out Lloyds.