The island became not so much a democracy as a mediocracy, in which the worst kept their power by destroying the best.

The 2010 season saw the Tigers return to a successful season after a couple of seasons of mediocracy.

What a mediafest, just what we need as the country sinks into political mediocracy and economic uncertainty.

Lewis calls it "a bizarre pastiche of limping mediocracy".

Frank Anzalone took over mid-season in 1983 after a period of mediocracy over the last eight seasons.

They amount to a mediocracy.

We live in a mediocracy thesedays.

Berlusconi's so-called "mediocracy" works in two ways.

Although many members of the political class and the wider mediocracy have been busy delivering its eulogy, the reports of capitalism's death were an exaggeration.

In a world of mediocracy and sloth Henry's drive and ability stood out, and I'm proud to have been associated with him.

The Rise of the Mediocracy"."

In fact, technical consultancy was one of the principal tools through which the mediocracy could maintain managerial control without disclosure of its own ignorance.

Mickie Stabbs: Yeah, the mediocracy, it disgusts us.

In this respect, Geniocracy derides Liberal Democracy as a form of "Mediocracy".

But drugs and violence were only symptoms of larger problems: overcrowded classes, low morale, a mediocracy that distrusted excellence and suspected creativity as un-American or subversive.

The Tigers' league campaign was also one of mediocracy as another 8th place finish in which led to a Young Shield place against the Rye House Rockets.

“Ebdon is hell-bent on creating a hugely damaging culture where academic excellence is sacrificed for political correctness, and instead of the present meritocracy, we will be left with a mediocracy.”

More recently Tassano has turned his attention to modern culture in general, in a book entitled Mediocracy: Inversions and Deceptions in an Egalitarian Culture (Oxford Forum, 2006).

The captives of the mediocracy thus struggled (often with surprising good will and docility) to force the previously unarticulated complexity of their experience into the linguistic moulds imposed by the hyped-up banalities of Businessese.

I've learnt that whilst contractors earn a good living, we should also give some of it back to charities and organisations we believe in rather than get taxed to the hilt by a Government who wishes to brainwash us all into mediocracy.

La Jornada mentioned that Quadri believes mediocracy is a result of Mexico's particracy, and called the citizens of the country to remember that they "are not condemned to vote for the same politicians and political parties," and that "alternatives exist."

The African National Congress, South Africa’s ruling party, on Friday called that drop a matter of deep concern, and the education minister, Naledi Pandor, pledged a dragnet to expose schools that “have begun to decline into complacency and mediocracy.”

In his book Mediocracy: Inversions and Deceptions in an Egalitarian Culture Tassano argues that the 'dumbing down' of popular media when coupled with increasing obscurity in scholarly discourse leads to a society which has the appearance of egalitarianism, but ultimately is a society ruled by elites.