Definition of substandard | Bee Dictionary of English

NAFDAC went on the offensive back home as well, conducting nearly 800 raids on drug-distribution outlets and 90 "destruction exercises" on counterfeit or substandard medicines.
But the narrative events that should add emotional heft are substandard action tropes: kids in jeopardy, bad guys menacing pretty women, Jack manacled to a water pipe.
Last August a jury awarded him damages of $366 million from Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and three colleagues who trumped up charges of substandard care against him to eliminate .

Council Extends Deadline for Substandard Lot Restriction to Aug. 2014
While giving unanimous preliminary approval to an ordinance designed to ensure that the City of Falls Church’s 220 contiguous “substandard” residential lots “be considered combined” for purposes of zoning rulings, the F.C. City Council tonight extended for over a year the date when such a policy would become legally binding. [...]
June 11, 2013 - Falls Church News-Press
The Man Who Saved My Company
Transformation comes in unexpected places. I met the father of the 'Theory of Constraints' just once, but his impact was profound. Sometimes, you get saved in the most unexpected ways. A few years after I’d bought a bagel basket factory in the late 1990s, I was in the gutter--beaten down by subsidized Chinese imports, substandard facilities and the squashing of the bagel business by the low-carb ...
June 11, 2013 - Inc Magazine
SCDOT Substandard Bridges of Florence and Darlington Counties
The South Carolina Department of Transportation released a list of substandard bridges in the Pee Dee. This list is the ones that are located in Florence and Darlington Counties. Entries that are bold
June 7, 2013 - Lake City News & Post

President Bush in Daily Times
President George W Bush, in comments prepared for a weekly Saturday radio address, said he was "deeply troubled by recent reports of substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre."
David Livingstone in FOXNews
We know from painful experience that letting a third-party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in substandard apps, and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent... Steve Jobs http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHFpiLQGE3TpxL8n_6QAG60yoNUHA CNET http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003739-264.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF3l_7JdUnf7hqhzcDLEvsUq2cDBw Apr 29, 2010 96000 127496 substandard You can't just look at the material and say it was substandard," Livingstone said. "Of course material from 100 years ago would be inferior to material today."

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