Sentence examples for shoddy roads from inspiring English sources

Wildcat promoters sold worthless securities to eager investors with dollar signs in their eyes, or built shoddy roads parallel to existing tracks, hoping to force the older lines to buy them out.

More cautiously, he suggested that he could withdraw support for Mr. Maliki if the government failed to address the most basic complaints of daily life here, particularly for the disenfranchised he claims to represent — shoddy roads, dirty water, leaking sewage and that persistent motif of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, electrical blackouts.

This means targeting resources at brown families living in neighborhoods where there is plenty of air pollution, shoddy roads and vacant lots but no good jobs.

But as Brown prepares to release his revised budget on Friday, one big issue appears to be far from a resolution: California's shoddy roads.

Also angering Kenyans was an explanation that politicians offered for needing the additional cash: the country's shoddy road network increases the cost for them to get back and forth from their districts to the capital.

Whereas shoddy road repairs are said to have blocked some drainage channels, other storm-drains in the oueds or valleys of the capital are known to have been deliberately bricked up in 1997, after it was discovered that Islamist militants, then engaged in a bloody bombing campaign, were using them as hideouts.

I puttered down the shoddiest roads through the ugliest towns, visiting their feeblest attractions and ingesting the very worst that regional caterers could boil and batter.

The drive there is a gutwrenching 12 hours up shoddy mountain roads, and its rickety guesthouses are Spartan at best.

Yet India is also experiencing what one observer has called a "churning" period, as public frustrations are boiling over about poor roads, shoddy schools, inflation, rising inequality and the pervasive reach of official corruption.

Wages make up just 14% of its costs, so even an annual increase of 15%, say, would reduce margins by only 2.1 percentage points, which can be matched by productivity improvements.His biggest worry is one shared by the rest of Indian industry—shoddy infrastructure, from roads to airports.

A further $67 billion goes on repairing the damage to cars caused by the shoddy condition of many roads.