Sentence examples for the mediocre performance of from inspiring English sources

In a sacred dance performed at night, the mediocre performance of one dancer who had been "very handsome last year" reminded Murasaki Shikibu "of the fleeting life of us all".

The mediocre performance of American students on international tests seems to show that our schools are doing poorly.

It seems to me that the mediocre performance of Derek Jeter coincides with the arrival of Alex Rodriguez.

This time the jolt was provided by the mediocre performance of American high school students, who underperformed not just the Chinese but dozens of other countries in standardized tests of science, math and reading.

The mediocre performance of technology stocks, which soared last year, hurt large-cap growth funds, which gained only 1.51percentt for the first quarter after rising 21.6percentt in 2003.

And there are the lessons learnt since banking started to go global in the 1970s: the mediocre performance of American commercial banks overseas, the Japanese fiasco, multiple horror stories of commercial banks buying investment banks, and, as the boom peaked, a ruinous hostile acquisition in the form of the RBS-led takeover of ABN AMRO.

Business leaders have raised the alarm that the middling to mediocre performance of American young people in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage and threaten its future prosperity.

Despite the mediocre performance, the United States still is in first place in its group and in strong position to advance to the final round of Concacaf qualifying next year.

In this study, a considerable difference in fit index of stand basal area prediction between the individual-tree model (0.676) and the whole-stand model (0.862) might result in mediocre performance of the combination method (FI = 0.699 for stand basal area).

The most common source of mediocre performance of virtual machines is the use of a single slow hard disk.

Of Chelsea Sorrell's mediocre performance of "Cowboy Casanova," he said: "Carrie Underwood karaoke is not going to fly.' He panned Reed Grimm's strange rendition of "Moves Like Jagger," calling it "Way too kitschy for me, too cabaret".