A poorly designed patent system like the one we have now can inhibit follow on research.

This is not a problem of immigration as such, but of poorly designed domestic social and labor market institutions.

A United Nations University study shows that ill timed or poorly designed elections in volatile situations can actually fuel chaos and reverse progress towards democracy.

Furthermore, poorly designed or developed laws on director and officer responsibilities and liabilities, with outcomes that are uncertain, capricious, unfair or parochial, threaten the benefits of globalization.

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

Even if the country avoids going over the fiscal cliff, a poorly designed political compromise that cuts the deficit too quickly could push an already weak economy into recession.

Meanwhile, Yushchenko was forced to accept a poorly designed political reform full of traps. The Russian threat lingers, whereas the West is more likely than not to be too passive.

Women are poorly organized.

Doing Poorly by Doing Good

Layla treated her son Sami poorly.

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.

Since some of the benefit (much of it in the case of small, open economies) will accrue to others, stimulus packages are likely to be smaller and more poorly designed than they otherwise would be, which is why a globally coordinated stimulus package is needed.

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.

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.

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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.

to study a very poorly studied, little known material that's found on people everywhere.

On average, resource rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources.

The poorly resourced opposition could benefit if the expected northern backlash divides the PDP.

Latin American students performed especially poorly on the problem solving part of these tests.

Collectively, we have done well on the former, and very poorly on the latter.

They have historically been enslaved by the White Moors. the population is poorly educated.

It affects the more poorly vascularized distal structures, such as the fingers and toes.

In all of these areas, Venezuela is faring poorly even by Latin America s low standards.