Sentence examples for weaker pool from inspiring English sources

Other leading consumer lenders, including Citigroup and J. P. Morgan Chase, reported strong growth last quarter, suggesting that Sears, whose credit cards are backed by its Sears National Bank subsidiary, has attracted a weaker pool of applicants than some of its competitors.

Possibilities of a weaker pool also exist with Equatorial Guinea or Gabon unlikely to complain if they get Angola, Burkina Faso and Botswana.

Left unmentioned was his ultimate loss to Mitt Romney in a relatively smaller and weaker pool of potential candidates.

It highlights the disparity in quality between the pools, and how it favours sides in weaker pools, as Leinster – semi-finalists last year– will struggle to get out of this one but Leicester could well sneak out of theirs.

The Heineken Cup has many admirable qualities but its structure remains unfairly weighted in favour of leading teams in weaker pools who can confidently expect a home draw in the quarter- finals.

The change was scheduled for July 2005, but before it could happen, an analyst sent an e-mail saying that according to the investment bank Bear Stearns, the older model "had been the 'best' " at rating weaker pools of mortgages, compared with Moody's and Fitch.

But other voters supported none of the main presidential contenders, underscoring what analysts have described as a weak pool of candidates.

Beyond that, the picture is not so clear – but a second place in Group B ensures a meeting with second place in Group F, perhaps the weakest pool of the six.

It may be as challenging as any of them, with an extraordinarily weak pool of prospects and no predictability beyond the top 10, or perhaps even the top five.

"Even if you go down to the so-called weakest pool, there are lots of teams in there who are a quite capable of beating the top seeds – witness Ireland against Germany, and that was in a qualifier, not even a friendly.

When companies can and do discriminate based on sexual orientation or any other status that has nothing to do with one's qualifications (e.g., race, sex), they end up with a weaker employee pool, which means less innovation and less efficiency.