Bob Beckel

High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.

American Journalist

Gemma Chan

Save the Children is also working to improve accommodation for refugee families living outside settlements. I met a family which had been living in a substandard building without windows, doors or a toilet.

English Actress

Philomena Kwao

Women of all ethnicities, complexions, and sizes want to be able to wear makeup and nice clothes. No one wants to go out and feel like they're substandard or that there's only one mold that they don't fit.

Patrick deWitt

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

Canadian Novelist

Campbell Brown

The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.

Ed Markey

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

American Politician

Tom Perez

Here's the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.

Bill Nelson

Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

Akshaye Khanna

As a creative person, you never embark on something thinking it will be substandard.

Indian Actor

Amaal Mallik

I don't like doing substandard work... I can't sleep at night if I make a bad song.

Indian Director

Substandard implies a negative judgement, indicating displeasure or criticism towards the quality.

Negative Connotation

Use 'substandard' when comparing against a known standard or expectation.

Comparison Understood

'Substandard' is formal and often used in official or professional contexts.

Formal Tone

 grass isn't as nutritious and isn't as good for them and so it means that they're getting a substandard diet when there is an extensive bloom they don't have as much choice of the really nice juicy leaves that they might sometimes want to eat the critter cam shows that green turtles have some tricks up their sleeves their palate is more diverse

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 In that community, substandard housing and food insecurity are the major conditions that we as a clinic had to be aware of, but in other communities it could be transportation barriers, obesity, access to parks, gun violence. The important thing is, we put in place a system that worked, and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach.

What makes us get sick?...

 when they first came out even though the technology was substandard and by the way they didn't do it because the technology was so great they did it for themselves it's because they wanted to be first people don't buy what you do they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe in fact

How great leaders...

 even though the technology was substandard. And, by the way, they didn't do it because the technology was so great; they did it for themselves. It's because they wanted to be first. People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.

 start showing before our food the right way we need to stop cutting corners and putting substandard products out there now we love to cook meaning that we have to go to the market right but most of our markets are really dirty and so the process of making most of our foods or

Talking about good food ...

 black and white communities historically people have associated poor areas where largely black working-class families live with outbreaks of mice and vermin daniel says it's worth investigating what's allowing mice to thrive in these areas whether it's substandard housing a

The Wonders of Urban...

 utterly undone by this word this disease this thing but he didn't even look at me he just stared right through me for months I denied my diagnosis I soon learned that my vital signs were critically substandard my bone density

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 people are living in substandard housing we as a global community have made such great progress on reducing poverty on curing and preventing diseases but by so many accounts global housing indicators

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 or response to drugs. But think about the dangerous message it sent, that black people's bodies are so substandard, a drug tested in them is not guaranteed to work in other patients.

The problem with...

 that what comes from the west is best. This tendency to look down on our own products and to see crops like fonio as simply "country peoples' food," therefore substandard,