Rana Plaza was built on swampy ground with substandard concrete.
For years, the government's slipshod testing practices had made South Africa a dumping ground for substandard foreign condoms, and many tell stories of having one break.
Otherwise, with the food-safety inspection system clearly overwhelmed, other countries will increasingly look at the United States as a dumping ground for substandard food shipments, Mr. Hubbard said.
The allegations go back to 2009, when Kenyan officials, according to the email chain, accused Nike of treating Kenya as a "dumping ground" for substandard Nike clothing.
John Covington, the superintendent of schools of Kansas City was recognized for rebuilding the city's substandard school system from the ground up.
Brown and Saiidi (2008) reported the comparative results of two substandard bridge bents tests under dynamic ground motions on the shaking tables subjected to near-fault and far-field ground motions.
Whole Foods Market said Monday it would tighten oversight of its suppliers to keep substandard products out of stores, after recalling ground beef that apparently sickened customers in two states.
They have not acted aggressively enough to fight systemic segregation in education and to improve educational outcomes: as one example, substandard schools for children with disabilities remain a dumping ground for Roma children in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
To be able to properly respond to the challenges of stolen, diverted, falsified and substandard medicines, it is critical that a level of ground truth is established as to the scope and scale of the problem.
Generations of poverty and a system of substandard education that keeps people in it have created fertile ground for Islamic militancy, which now poses a serious threat to the stability of the country.
So they built it again, and they built it better, from the ground up, over pints of the pub's famously substandard lager.
