Sentence examples for shoddy building from inspiring English sources

Nigeria is no stranger to shoddy building.

"After the Fire of London, an act was brought in to stop shoddy building, for example.

Investigators have pinpointed the cause as bad advice from Mediocrites, the God of Contracting, who specified shoddy building materials.

The deaths of thousands of children in collapsed schools became a highly sensitive issue for the authorities after outrage spread through China about shoddy building standards.

The chair of the committee investigating the earthquake has acknowledged that shoddy building may have played a part in the deaths of so many children.

'We must not make a mess of the Olympic project by allowing corruption and shoddy building works,' said one Chinese critic.

One would help landlords gain access to capital to help them repair shoddy buildings more quickly.

It should be a paradise for upwardly mobile, but one of his shoddy buildings collapses.

In a country remarkable for both its harsh climate and its shoddy buildings, this is a busy job.

China's urban landscapes appear to be the antithesis of green: smog, foul-smelling streams and canals, roads jammed with exhaust-belching cars, shoddy buildings erected with little heed to building codes.

Earthquakes can bring instant transparency to murky societies, exposing the greedy who put up shoddy buildings or the officials bribed to look the other way.Britain is enduring a political earthquake, its third in as many years.