11.   Worse still, injuries are offered as excuses for poor performances.

12.   Poor educational performance is related to emotional disturbance.

13.   His poor performance may be attributed to lack of motivation rather than to reading difficulties.

14.   We found out later that the horse had been nobbled, which explained its poor performance.

15.   With my poor performance I really felt that I had let my teammates down.

16.   His poor performance squashed any hope he had of a promotion.

17.   Blaming the poor economic performance of enterprises, Wang spoke of an extremely grim situation and an arduous task with serious implications for political and economic stability.

18.   Such complacency was judged as the underlying cause of the poor performance of the other opposition parties, leading to the virtual political eclipse of the PRF and PDC.

19.   Our response to the poor performance has been to accelerate our programmes for reducing costs and raising productivity.

20.   The causes of poor organizational performance are seen as poor communications, bad supervisory practices, low levels of group satisfaction and cohesion.