This is a poor start for the state's top law officer.
Doing so again would be a poor start on constructing a more just and democratic Iraq.
After a poor start, where they lost their first 5 games away, the team turned the season around.
The poor start was dismissed as one of those things.
A poor start for the first day of bad weather.
We have I think got off to a rather poor start.
The election campaign also got off to a poor start.
And the poor start is what cost us last year.