Sentence examples for standards a poor from inspiring English sources

They face Munster at Thomond Park having suffered, by their standards, a poor campaign in the Top 14.

Jung was too good in the end, despite what was by his standards a poor dressage phase.

There was nothing much in the way of breaks going for Colin Montgomerie, who had, by his standards, a poor week.

I applied to do an MBA instead -- by some people's standards a "poor man's accountancy qualification".

Yet such standards are a poor way of reducing emissions.

The development of standards has a poor reputation in some academic circles.

Clearly, Enbridge's failure to adhere to minimum federal safety standards provides a poor reference for its application, as does their unwillingness to wait for all of the information necessary to ensure public safety.

But on the measure that really matters to people – living standards – it remains a poor country.

Unfortunately for them, Welbeck is still an erratic finisher and Van Persie is going through what, by his lofty standards, equates to a poor spell.

The World Bank's low standards have set a poor precedent for newer investment banks such as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank, the report continues.

Therefore as a partially adopted standard would represent a poor solution [53], many cloud vendors now support the creation and adoption of new standards by proposing them to standardisation groups.