The Obama administration was not responsible for poor US economic performance in the immediate post crisis period that was inevitable.

The reasons for poor performance are deep seated and complex.

And that left the administration open to the charge that bad policy was the cause of poor economic performance.

But, despite its recent poor performance, Japan retains impressive power resources.

Second, this poor performance shows how short sighted the international community can be.

This is the approach still preferred by the Obama administration, despite its poor performance.

Third, a higher CEO pay slice is associated with weaker accountability for poor performance.

If I were to do badly my poor performance would hold the whole class up.

The poor performance of the Portuguese economy was explored in April 2007 by The Economist, which described Portugal as a new sick man of Europe .

In principle, low post crisis growth in the advanced countries need not impede poor countries economic performance.

Their performance might be very positive or very poor, yet they would continue to occupy that position.

Domestically, his poor performance in addressing South Africa s HIV AIDS epidemic will ensure that he is judged harshly.

Significance Bad contacts are the cause of failure or poor performance in a wide variety of electrical devices.

He thought this instrument had some severe technical faults in particular, its great length led to poor performance.

These typically involve system tuning, changing operating system or device parameters, or even refactoring the application software to resolve poor performance due to poor design or bad coding practices.

When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.

Many Americans will reject Bush this November because of the poor performance of the economy or the quagmire in Iraq.

His performance was worthy of praise.

Each time, his performance was flat.

Malaysia was keenly aware that corruption was a fundamental cause of poor economic performance and an obstacle to poverty reduction it fed crime and terrorism, weakened socio economic structures and could cause serious harm to a nation.

The poor thing was nagging.

The album's commercial performance was initially lukewarm.

Even though he was poor, he was happy.

If these missing items were included, the poor world s economic performance over the past three decades, including China s, would look far worse.

Indeed, how else to explain the poor performance of a country as well endowed as Switzerland, or as highly populated as Nigeria? And what accounts for South Korea s exceptional performance if not a coherent sports policy?

Success in any field requires forgoing excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning in short, success requires emotional maturity.

Such constraints are frequently referred to in the reports and appear to explain the poor performance of monitoring and assessment systems currently operating.

This trend has surfaced as a result of the realization of the poor economic performance of many resource rich countries despite their vast wealth.

The first performance studies department was created at NYU.

She died in poverty, poor even among the poor, and was buried in a common grave.

He reflects on the poor performance of Mexico and Brazil national teams, but highlights what he considers a strategy failure of Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff.

Supply Division further developed key performance indicators to monitor its performance and a new emergency hub was opened in Dubai.

Moreover, the performance of the actors was not that good.

In the academic world, however, the performance was the same.

He was poor and couldn't buy a coat.

The short answer is no. Indeed, the two main arguments underpinning claims that inadequate education is to blame for poor economic performance are weak, at best.

But, whereas private sector professionals are fired or have their salaries reduced for poor performance, Yam wanted private sector pay with none of the downside risk.

By constantly pushing for lower interest rates than the ECB can deliver, politicians set the central bank up as a scapegoat for Europe s poor economic performance.

NEW HAVEN Recent indications of a weakening global economy have led many people to wonder how pervasive poor economic performance will be in the coming years.

He consistently blamed France s poor export performance on the strong euro, favoring a politically subservient ECB whose mandate should include economic growth as well as price stability.

Declining investment rates represent the principal cause behind poor economic performance as they were on average 4 per cent below the investment rates for the developing world.

Nonetheless, the EU s foreign policy performance in 2012 was positive overall.

After about a million I mean, I got rejected from lots of places, because I was not only trying to go to a poor country, I was trying to go to the poor of the poor country.

Year after year, the Russian Central Bank (RCB) blames the weather, the poor harvest, or other non monetary factors for its feeble performance in lowering the inflation rate.

MOSCOW The Russian government, with its solid hold on power, has invariably gotten away with poor performance, inefficiency, corruption, and widespread violation of political rights and civil liberties.