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Clearly not enough is being done to crack down on homes that continue to offer what would charitably be described as sub-standard care.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GARY MASON 2012

Clearly not enough is being done to crack down on homes that continue to offer what would charitably be described as sub-standard care.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GARY MASON 2012

These guys were over in the Hospital about every other day and I never heard them mention that the care was sub-standard.

Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

Refining, in particular, is a business that suffers long periods of sub-standard returns on capital punctuated by the occasional boom.

ConocoPhillips Bows to the Market's Wishes Liam Denning 2011

From some of the stories I have personally heard, however, the seemingly endless supply of new teachers will begin to run out: fewer young people are willing to endure sub-standard teaching conditions in inner-city schools and threats to find ways to raise their students' scores on meaningless, mind-numbing tests or lose their jobs.

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: "Save Our Schools" Strategies Joel Shatzky 2011

So labor laws in developing countries cannot be improved because it will destroy their economy, so people work in conditions that are sub-standard for their own good.

Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No” 2009

But did you know that the United States and other wealthy countries are sending sub-standard food overseas to address malnutrition?

Tido von Schoen-Angerer: It's Time to End the Double-Standard of Food Aid Tido von Schoen-Angerer 2010

To explain this period of underachievement, other clubs may point to financial difficulty, managerial instability or simply sub-standard players.

What's The Matter With Arsenal? Gabriele Marcotti 2011

But did you know that the United States and other wealthy countries are sending sub-standard food overseas to address malnutrition?

Tido von Schoen-Angerer: It's Time to End the Double-Standard of Food Aid Tido von Schoen-Angerer 2010

The National Audit Office NAO warns there is a "wealth of evidence" of sub-standard financial management that means the chancellor's plans to find efficiency savings of up to 40% in central government will not be achieved without urgent action to improve the capacity of the civil service.

Whitehall riddled with financial mismanagement, says watchdog 2011