Sentence examples for substandard material from inspiring English sources

According to historians, Portland began shipping some substandard material.

Now, with fewer voicings being made, a lot of substandard material has been cut out.

In Aleppo city, road repairs were unsatisfactory, the supplier was sued for using substandard material and the cash recouped.

Questions about Strandflex cable first arose in January 1999, when a former employee sued the Oriskany, N.Y., company, claiming that it had failed to perform required quality tests and had used substandard material to make its cable.

An Israeli major at the site told reporters that the floor of the third story, which had given way like quicksand under the feet of dancers at a large wedding, was built of a substandard material.

Tristan Rogers, as Robert, and Emma Samms, as Holly, did what they could with the substandard material they were given.

Mobile homes have long been stigmatized in American society and are commonly associated with substandard materials.

Testing confirmed that substandard materials were causing the Chinese-made modules' protective coating to degrade, he said.

Buildings collapse often in Nigeria because of endemic corruption, with contractors using substandard materials and bribing inspectors to ignore shoddy work or a lack of permits.

Building collapses are common in India as builders cut corners by using substandard materials, and as multistory structures are often built with inadequate supervision.

Xinhua, the state news agency, reported Mr. Ma's comments on Thursday and said the large number of student deaths had "aroused wide suspicion and anger over shoddy construction and substandard materials allegedly used to build schools".