Sentence examples for worryingly poor from inspiring English sources

China sees itself as still, in many respects, worryingly poor.

Despite Chile's exacting construction codes, which often exceed those of California and Japan, the performance of numerous high-rise buildings was worryingly poor.

Nonetheless, this is a worryingly poor record for two countries with a common history, language and legal system which looks even worse when you consider how many Indian tycoons keep houses in London.

It was a worryingly poor display from Johnson's men as they gave away eight penalties in the first half and should have been out of the game.

Despite this, respondents had worryingly poor knowledge about major communicable diseases.

A WHO assessment of cross-national reliability of application of the DSM-IIR criteria identified worryingly poor reliability for certain elements [ 4].

Worryingly, he has a poor record of defying his party's baronies, especially the unions.

More worryingly, some of the poorest places in Asia Bangladeshh and Nepal) and Africa Beninn and Niger) also face higher food bills.

For some disease groups, there has been little progress, either because survival already approaches 100% (e.g. thyroid carcinomas) or, more worryingly for some cancers with poor outcomes, because they remain resistant to existing therapy (e.g. rhabdomyosarcoma).

The documentary allows you to suspect poor Huma – frequently shown worryingly silent and thoughtful – might have had a secret plan to re-enact Hillary's stand-by-your-man approach prior to a political run of her own.

Early on in the Hunter's service the Avon engines proved to have poor surge margins, and worryingly suffered compressor stalls when the cannon were fired, sometimes resulting in flameouts.