The reasons for poor performance are deep seated and complex.

The ruling United Russia party s recent poor performance in regional elections show that the electorate is fed up with the status quo and is ready to vote for an alternative.

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

It provides regular financial performance and status information to UNIDO stakeholders.

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.

Today, vast differences remain in reproductive health status between rich and poor countries.

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.

Is the social status of women important for their performance in parliament but that doesn't count for men?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Since first coming to power, Putin sought to cement Russia s status and its global standing on the basis of superior economic performance.

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.

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.

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 .

With social deprivation one may have limited access to the social world due to factors such as low socioeconomic status or poor education.

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.

And the conclusion was it was tasks that included social evaluative threat threats to self esteem or social status in which others can negatively judge your performance.

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.

Or, to take a contemporary example, the British entrepreneur Richard Branson overcame dyslexia and poor academic performance by using events and public stunts to promote his Virgin brands.

The most striking finding is that the medal count can be predicted with great accuracy from four key variables population, GDP per capita, past performance, and host status.

Health is a strong entry point for poverty reduction, and alleviating the disease burden on the poor will contribute to the improvement of their social status.

They're not the largest number of people, but they are some of the most expensive and in terms of the likelihood for domestic abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, poor performance by their kids in schools and also poor health as a result of stress.

The single most important driver of deficit growth is weak tax revenues, owing to poor economic performance the single best remedy would be to put America back to work.

Others argue that Western democracies have the opposite problem a surfeit of narrow, politically assertive interests leads to underinvestment and poor tradeoffs between present and future opportunities and performance.

The country nearly had a financial crisis in 2003 and 2004, but Dominica's economy grew by 3.5 in 2005 and 4.0 in 2006, following a decade of poor performance.