Sentences with word «botched»

But he also has to take responsibility for the laundry list of botched attempts to do much more than provide the basic service people valued since the earliest days.

Booksellers got jaded after botched attempts to translate English - language bestsellers produced error - ridden Spanish versions that sold poorly.

Making a tackle from this position, the developers reckon, feels all - in, with no opportunity to recover from botched attempts because players had to go through the motion of completing the animation before they could recover.

Forgive us for being light on details; it's apparent that the number one qualification in order to make our list of botch jobs is for the car be so highly customized it's no longer recognizable.

people who shoot and kill in botched drug robberies are the masterpiece of survival of the fittest.

Kahn is correct that when Roe v. Wade was passed, hospitals across the country were able to close down the wards where literally thousands of women had been treated for botched abortions by unqualified individuals (or their own efforts).

Stitched together pieces of flesh from several botched surgeries, your heart goes out, but never close enough to relate.

I bet a large portion of those were upset and affected by botched online system.

And Research In Motion Ltd.'s botched launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which lacked key features, is yet further proof.

The dangerous drinks can come from botched batches of home - distilled liquor, but they often have a more sinister origin; criminal gangs will cut standard alcohols with methanol and sell the resulting concoctions to unassuming customers for inflated profits.

I mean, it was losing oodles of money with botched plans and little to show for it.»

Following a somewhat botched rollout of the September security patch, Google now released factory images and OTA files of the October Android security patch for current Pixel and Nexus devices.

Last week the Colts turned heads with one of the worst special teams tricks of all time, a play completely botched in both design and execution.

The district attorney's office has a wrongful conviction unit working on botched cases, but Adams said that apart from individual cases there hasn't been a full accounting of what went wrong and who was responsible.

Of course, it's too early to say with absolute certainty that this rush won't be hindered by delays or excessively high prices, but for now PS4 owners can look to the immediate future with optimism and hope that Sony doesn't botch things up.

The result was one of the most botched operations in U.S. military history until the 2007 surge partially salvaged things.

From the earliest days of Total War: Shogun, over to Medieval, the critically acclaimed Total War: Rome, to subpar add - ons like Alexander and completely botched releases like the massively awaited...

After a string of botched missions to get a hold of the bad guy really make the point of how dense MacGruber is in fairly predictable ways, the movie starts to hit a stride by ignoring the action scene scenarios and letting us get to see the depths of his idiocy.

Crackling with low - life energy and thrumming with tension, this grungy, high - octane thriller about two brothers» botched bank heist could well propel arthouse auteurs Benny and Josh Safdie into the big time.

I have to disagree with the description of his surgery as botched.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

Obama had the common sense to lie about his record of voting against extending legal protections against infants who survived botched abortions.

After all the rumors and last - minute botched deals over the years, it's finally happened: Microsoft and Yahoo have reached an agreement to merge their search services in hopes of finally being able to compete with the grand search overlord, Google.

The commission's most significant proposal came in 2015, when it successfully persuaded Francis and his «kitchen cabinet» to create a tribunal section inside the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to judge bishops who botched handling cases of their abuser priests.

English filmmaker Guy Ritchie practically invented the gangster comedy with this cool, hilarious comedy that introduced the world to Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones (at least as an actor) through interconnecting stories about botched crimes.

A report released by four of the five borough presidents (all but Staten Island James Molinaro), Pubic Advocate Bill de Blasio and parent leaders, tells some of the sad history of the councils under this administration, focusing to a large extent on the repeatedly botched election for members in 2011.

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who botches things when I'm expecting company... lol!!

Caray was let go in November after botching calls in myriad ways — factual errors, missed plays, melodramatic proclamations — during the postseason.

Earlier this year, the case against FLOCK's former board members was dismissed on a technicality — the result of the case having been badly botched from the outset by the Nye County District Attorney's Office.

Kwame Nkrumah did botch up the first ever economy he ran for Ghana, for which he is held in adulation by some people for what these are.

This might be easier for me and my fellow commuters to stomach if botched privatisation hadn't left Britain's railways expensive to maintain and upgrade — hardly the fault of passengers.

The most costly fumble came with a little more than 11 minutes left in the game: The Spartans had picked up momentum with an onside kick recovery, a quick score on a 43 - yard pass from Abel Ordaz to Isaiah Foskey, and then a Bosco botched snap on a punt attempt that left De La Salle in great field position to try and cut the lead to single digits.

As a result of botched implementation in places like New York, many parents, teachers and students are beginning to view the Common Core as something destructive instead of something that will actually help children succeed in college, career and life.

And * also * thinking this is something I might actually be able to make without totally botching it.

H. Q.'s botched procedure highlights the murky ethics involved.

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NYSUT took a vote of no confidence in the education commissioner in April, and Cuomo has blamed King and the Board of Regents» botched roll out of Common Core for the need for the moratorium.

John Logan's script is certainly a towering step up from Damon Lindelof's botched effort with Prometheus.

This isn't necessarily an explanation, but incumbents generally have a very strong advantage over challengers regardless of party affiliation unless they've really botched things in such a way that a challenger can run effective attack ads.

The cross-country segment lacks the intimacy and intensity of the Portland sequences, in which Ray and Del make botched macho attempts to mentor the trusting Charley.

Spitzer's resignation more or less cleared the field for Cuomo, with the exception of his haphazardly selected lieutenant governor, David Paterson, who so botched his own short - lived stint in the executive mansion that he didn't really stand much of a chance against the ambitious attorney general.

The February issue also includes an in - depth technical article called «Scrum Rising», of which it's explained: «Scrum is an agile development methodology which can save your studio a substantial amount of crunch time, headache, botched plans, and disorganized employees — or so says High Moon's Clinton Keith.

But things like wheels falling off and botched pit stops in testing show that McLaren is still prone to some of the very «McLaren - y» problems that cost the team even before it had Honda engines.

They also botched on Jah.

Don't be surprised if there is open warfare over the new movie, «Truth,» which is about CBS News» botched report on George W. Bush's military record.

Some believe David could be Prime Minister today if he had joined one of several botched coups against Gordon Brown in 2009 and 2010 while he was Prime Minister.»