Sentences with phrase «botch jobs»

The chief reason for regret was the expense of keeping the house warm, while 28 per cent became overwhelmed by the amount of decorating that was needed, and the same percentage discovered a raft of «botch jobs» made by the previous owner.

His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst «botch jobs» of history.

We may like to think of humans as perfect, finished natural products that should not be interfered with, but nature's creations are botch jobs, full of mindless mistakes.

His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst «botch jobs» of history.

They must have thought the same would have happened here but they botched the job and the international community turned on them.

The bill is motivated by partisan goals, but is something of a botch job in this respect.

Control orders may have been unveiled by the government in April 2005 as a great panacea, but they were then and remain now, a botched job.

ALBANY — The company hired to process 1.8 million paper tax returns for the state botched the job so badly that state employees had to be rushed in at a...

A botched job: the various relationships and personal histories of the characters are never made clear, the last act is glaringly disjointed, the writing and direction are all over the map.

The difference between Ryan and Vietnam pictures like Jacket or Platoon is largely that, while the Vietnam War is generally acknowledged to have been a botched job, it's far harder to dismiss World War II as military folly.

Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), are two Irish hitmen, laying low in the medieval Belgian town of «Bruges» to evade the police after a botched job back home.

As Ray, the haunted hitman sent to cool his heels in Belgium along with his partner Ken (Brendan Gleeson) following a botched job, Farrell is truly terrific: hangdog, self - centered, irritating, explosive but with a kernel of rusty goodness inside him that makes his friendship with Ken and his inchoate hunger for some sort of redemption genuinely affecting.

Released: August 11 Cast: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Safdie, Barkhad Abdi Director: Ben and Josh Safdie (Heaven Knows What) Why it's great: In this greasy, cruel thriller from up - and - comers the Safdie brothers, Robert Pattinson stars as Connie, a bank robber who races through Queens to find enough money to bail out his mentally disabled brother, who's locked up for their last botched job.

Just before Christmas, two hit men, Ray (Colin Farrell), and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), are ordered by their London boss, Harry (Ralph Fiennes), to hide out in Bruges for a couple of weeks in the aftermath of a tragically botched job involving a young boy.

Language: English Genre: Action / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks Plot: A stuntman - turned - wheelman must use all his skills to survive after a botched job results in a contract on his head.

Washed - up private security agent Danny Stratton has been reduced to low level bodyguarding operations, after a botched job when a Van Gogh painting in his care was stolen.

The end is a bit of a botch job, as we know where the film is going all along, and the final scene in particular is completely unnecessary, unless you really need to be fired up for the inevitable sequel to follow (indeed, 28 Months Later, the third and reportedly final entry is already being pushed).

Now with In Bruges, McDonagh's debut feature starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two hitmen forced to take a vacation in a fairytale Belgian city after a botched job, he's transplanted his fantastic film / theater hybrid onto the big screen, canceling out his own accomplishment in the process and delivering to us what can only be described as «McDonagh lite.»

I'm a little intimidated thinking of doing a «proper job» of sanding, priming, and painting... what are the chances that a total newby like me would botch a job like that, versus doing it «right enough» to be worth the effort?

paying for a freelance editor as a newbie is not necessarily going to turn out as well as you might hope — simply because freelance editors do not belong to an organizational framework like a publishing house and therefore if they botch the job for you, the problem is just yours (if they work for a publisher and botch the job, then they put their own career in peril).

Make sure a company has a money back guarantee policy, or will at least correct any botched job for free.

It is a short sale botch job beyond belief.

While loyalties are being tested, due to the botched job and this being an end of an era sort of game, we should get to see different connections and relationships that make the game more interesting.

Hopeless botch job Aliens: Colonial Marines has received another major patch on PS3 and Xbox 360, which promises to «better protect save data,» fix «some» of the erratic Alien animations and generally polish the turd a little bit more.

One such figure, in headdress and white tunic, might be a boss scolding three alternately incredulous, defiant, and apologetic - looking underlings for a botched job, or a survivor pointing out captured war criminals accused of heinous acts.

The establishment of the Ministry of Justice was another botched job reminiscent of the shambles over the attempt in 2003 to abolish the office of lord chancellor.

The combination of a «whistleblower» with pink hair, a huge botched job by FB, quite clever coordination with the New York Times which has a

The combination of a «whistleblower» with pink hair, a huge botched job by FB, quite clever coordination with the New York Times which has a very strong incentive to blame Facebook for Trump (rather than their own coverage of Hillary's emails and so on, which dwarfed all «fake news» social media in impact — cf. physicist Duncan Watts for detail), and the desire of many established players to screw Silicon Valley tech companies gave the story more legs than her previous ones.

The kitchen renovation may have been a botched job, but there was good light up there in the finished attic.

While you could save up to an estimated 20 % of the project cost doing the work yourself — there are plenty of how - to books and workshops offered by home improvement stores to guide you — be aware that you could also end up spending more money and time if you botch the job or unforeseen problems arise.

I love stenciling when it's well done, but I've seen so many botched jobs, that it makes me a little leary to try it in my house.

Consider checking with a contractor to make sure you actually know what you're doing before you slip on those work gloves; fixing a botched job can cost a lot more than the money you would have saved, in the long run.

Not exact matches

Pruitt counted jobs in unrelated enterprises to get his botched total.

Not many managers will talk while the current guy is still in the job — the botched Martin O'Neill incident still lingers in my memory.

«These botched and illegal plans have cast a huge shadow over the solar industry, jeopardising thousands of jobs.

John McArdle, who served as spokesman for Joe Bruno when the then - Senate majority leader was the target of Spitzer's botched political hit job, made the connection during his appearance on the «Insiders» segment of last night's CapTon.

Two Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center employees left their jobs after they were implicated in the botched decision not to try to revive a patient suffering cardiac arrest, a spokeswoman for the facility said.

«These botched and illegal plans have cast a huge shadow over the solar industry, jeopardising thousands of jobs,» Friends of the Earth's executive director Andy Atkins said.

«It's a shame County Executive Dinolfo took over a month to apologize to her fellow citizens that were treated as collateral damage in a botched political hit job.

Amid the backlash from looked like a botched PR job, Labour's Heidi Alexander said in the Commons last night that Hunt may have «inadvertently misled» MPs.

Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, announced that he was stepping down Aug. 4 after just 14 months on the job, a move largely believed to be connected to his botched handling of the Christmas 2010 blizzard.

You had two courageous options: to insist that Andrew Lansley had done a great job in pushing through vital reforms and keep him as Health Secretary; or admit that the reform bill was botched and appoint a new health secretary whose job was to put things right.

Even though ethics may not seem that important for something like a job search, an ethics decision, if you botch it, can have very real consequences.

«[H] iring organizations see an IT [information technology] talent shortage, while job hunters insist that employers are botching the hiring process, screening out too many good candidates.

The crew also swaps out empty liquid nitrogen and liquid helium bottles for new ones every other day, a nerve - racking job that, if botched, can end up bleeding the cryogenics more quickly than the new bottles can replace them.

In this sixth Mission: Impossible movie, Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, who must fix a botched Impossible Missions Force job, all while proving his loyalty to the CIA, preventing a global catastrophe, and dodging several assassins who're after his head.

The ending of this film is perhaps the biggest botch - up job, as if they had no idea how to tie it up, except to give us half - baked conspiracy notions, and unlike the Lemony Snicket books, an attempt at a happy ending, which sort of goes against the premise of these children never really finding happiness.

I think he's part of the reason why I enjoyed the movie so much on videotape, even though the fullscreen transfer is a badly botched pan and scan job: Murray's so magnetic that the presence of the other actors frequently seems irrelevant.

From strained paycheck jobs like «My Mom's New Boyfriend» to gruesomely botched prestige projects like «The -LSB-...]

If a job has been botched in the past the best course of action is often to completely remove the part and check it over before re-fitting it properly.