Sentence examples for was poorly built from inspiring English sources

"It was poorly built, termite-ridden," he said.

Xinjian was poorly built when it opened its doors in 1992, they say, and never got its share of government funds for reconstruction because of its low ranking in the local education bureaucracy and the low social status of its students.

It requires time and patience and most hardware available was poorly built and too slow to scan hundreds let alone thousands of photos.

In Nukunonu, the school, which was destroyed by Percy, was poorly built and vulnerable, and there was no early warning system.

Initially, government officials denied that the dam was poorly built; many politicians and an engineer for the nation's water company blamed the dam's poor construction as the source of the extreme death toll.

"Japanese are poorly built because they eat rice," he said at the time.

On the other hand, many post-war estates are poorly built and at low densities.

Dr Arvind Phukan, a flood-control expert, told CNN-IBN that flood defences were poorly built.

There were no advertising signs, the apartment buildings were poorly built and lighted, and there were a lot of empty storefronts.

We have to be really careful with contemporary architecture because more often than not it is poorly built by the volume house builders and it requires a lot more upkeep in order to maintain the quality.

At a news conference in Beijing on Thursday, Mr. Ma said more than 1,000 schools suffered from at least one of two major problems: they were built on the fault line and collapsed like many other buildings around them, or they were poorly built.