Sentence examples for strikingly poor from inspiring English sources

This closed nature of the Pakistani political system has contributed to the strikingly poor performance of its democratic politicians.

FOR a country that boasts some of the best manufacturers in the world, Japan's service sector remains strikingly poor.

A handful of high-profile companies emerged as offering strikingly poor maternity/paternity terms or failing to respond with adequate information.

Despite the strikingly poor performance of private sector-led solutions in filling the healthcare gap in the developing world, a growing number of international donors are pushing for an expansion of private healthcare at the expense of public provision.

They say that the Pentagon's enforcement effort is inconsistent and underfinanced; that its sanctions are weak and rarely imposed; and that its record-keeping on violations is strikingly poor.

The OECD found not just low levels of achievement in numeracy and literacy tests among the population as a whole, but strikingly poor results among the 16 to 24-year-old age group.

Leipziger Tor, the neighbourhood where most buildings have come down, is poor and declining but strikingly short of dereliction.

To begin with, the embryonic lamprey telencephalon is remarkably tiny (in relative proportions versus other brain regions) and shows very slow and weak growth, and the resulting adult telencephalon is strikingly cell poor.

Strikingly, very poor overlap was observed, as only 7 of the 85 modulated genes (8 %) in our study matched HIF1 target genes.

Indeed, the catabolic phenotype in stromal fibroblasts strikingly correlated with poor survival, treatment failure and metastatic growth in a set of breast, ovarian, lung and gastric cancer patients who were subject to chemotherapy, correlation that was lost when untreated patients were considered.

As a result, Latin America, an upper-middle-income region (with an income per person equivalent in purchasing power to $13,500 a year), still has a strikingly large number of poor people.