Yet public water utilities in developing countries are usually inadequately funded, poorly managed and inefficient.

However, if poorly prepared and managed, the elections could be an additional source of tension and further instability.

The euro is not overvalued or poorly managed, which would undermine competitiveness and erode confidence in the currency s long term stability.

The overarching goal is to design a roadmap that can take us from today s poorly managed, exploitative system of human mobility to one that is well managed, protects migrant rights, and plans for the consequences and opportunities of migration.

He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done poorly.

In poorly managed systems, water pressure can be so low as to result only in a trickle of water or so high that it leads to damage to plumbing fixtures and waste of water.

Women are poorly organized.

Doing Poorly by Doing Good

Layla treated her son Sami poorly.

However, the rise of fracking should be viewed with caution Poorly managed fracking facilities can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas and shale oil, to which many frackers are turning, is much more emissions intensive than shale gas.

International organizations and Member States, together with other Habitat Agenda partners, are increasingly coming to terms with the mammoth challenge of dealing with rapid, poorly managed urbanization and the consequential proliferation of unplanned, unserviced slums and informal settlements.

They identified the main sources of debris in the ocean and in coastal areas as poorly managed landfills, waste carried by wind from urban areas and by sewage systems and rivers into the ocean, as well as shipping.

These are relatively infrequent and poorly understood.

(c) Some indicators are particularly poorly reported

Infrastructure spending is either inadequate or poorly targeted.

Africa's history is rich but often poorly documented.

Brazilian courts were reputed in 2000 to handle investors lawsuits slowly and poorly, and they are reputed to handle them slowly and poorly today.

Even today, donor governments aid efforts are poorly directed.

Neuropsychology Patients perform poorly on tests of semantic knowledge.

The new Middle East bodes poorly for the coming year.

The significance of these moves has, however, been poorly understood.

At the local elections held in June, the PRM did poorly.

Most governments are poorly equipped to deal with serious water challenges.

They grew rich because they managed the system, not because they managed their businesses well.

CAMBRIDGE Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, What does not get measured, does not get done. He might have added that what gets measured poorly gets done poorly.

He managed to escape.

Yet at both the global and national levels, energy is poorly governed.

Indeed, there are lots of depressing statistics about how poorly companies listen.

Indeed, these cuts perform poorly on the CBO s measure of budgetary effectiveness.

American exceptionalism may sell well at home, but it does poorly abroad.

Women continued to be poorly represented at decision making levels in government.

I managed to get in.

This proposal was received poorly by many of the Arab Israeli community leaders.

LONDON The Greek debt problem has been poorly handled by Europe s decision makers.

It adulterated nuclear related exports from European vendors to perform poorly during operation.

Instead, today s poorly regulated financial sectors China is the biggest culprit misprice capital.

California s public schools, from kindergarten to high school, rank poorly on standardized tests.

It is here at the level of execution that governments often perform poorly.

At the time of entry, 70 of enrollees were malnourished and poorly clothed.

In general, oximes exist as colorless crystals and are poorly soluble in water.

The SCAF had managed to make me feel insignificant once again they managed to make me feel the fear.

No one managed to kill Hitler.

Crises need to be carefully managed.

Managed transitions produce more stable democracies.

This image is not color managed.