1.   What happens if a hypothesis which looked poor initially benefits from later right context information?

2.   He certainly seemed below par in the few mid-season matches last year, but the whole team looked poor in those.

3.   They were knocking the ball around very nicely and Blackburn looked poor.

4.   He said the chances of a rescue looked poor.

5.   Our old ones look pretty poor.

6.   She looked poor, a little disoriented.

7.   So the prospects for cooperation between the White House and Congress look poor.

8.   If Major does hang on, his quality of political life looks poor.

9.   Not surprisingly, many Latin American countries associate teenagers with crime-especially when they are dressed according to the rap style and look poor.

10.   They may look poor, he says, but most live at home and benefit from the emotional support of a family.