Sentences with phrase «botched effort»

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

I generally like Landis's screenwriting, though he's struggled within the studio environment since the success of Chronicle (see also: American Ultra, underrated, and Victor Frankenstein, actually bad), and Mr. Right is another botched effort.

Eliot Spitzer's botched effort to use the State Police in hopes of dirtying up his chief political nemesis, then - Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

The second goal only came after some botched efforts on the counter-attack that a more confident Arsenal side would have clinically finished.

The policy community has been reluctant to even discuss higher thresholds of temperature rise because it does not want to be accused of botching its efforts to forestall catastrophic climate change, he argued.

Not exact matches

Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell reported that the Puerto Rican government's own missteps in the reconstruction effort, including botching a massive recovery contract with Whitefish Energy, have further hampered the power restoration effort.

For enthusiasm and effort coupled with skill, the only player last night who came close to Mesut was Rambo — altho he does occasionally make me wonder why he makes the impossible look easy, and the easy he tends to botch.

With any luck, the efforts of lobbying groups and researchers, and influence of documentaries such as Lunch Line, will yield some real reform to our botched lunch program.

The NCCE debate comes on the back of the botched presidential debate efforts by the Institute of economic affairs.

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

The CDC is piloting cameras and tablets in high - level biosafety spaces in an effort to avoid future infectious disease botch - ups

Now, while that film was mediocre at best, that one scene, which is satirical of the concept of the botched heist, just couldn't escape my mind while I patiently waited for the lights to dim and Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort The Town to commence.

In one last - ditch effort to change her mind, Will (Eric McCormack) transports his co-star to their former sitcom set, where the perpetually sassy Karen (Megan Mullally) is sleeping on the couch and Jack (Sean Hayes) wanders in after a botched hook - up attempt.

Unfortunately, the district has a history of botched high school improvement efforts over the last decade with Manual being the poster child.

She has been chronicling botched school reform efforts in her state for years.

She is the author of numerous articles, books and blog posts (including on The Answer Sheet) about the botched school reform efforts in her state.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

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?

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).

Even if you botch the pronunciation, your willingness to make the effort is appreciated.

Her work celebrates the earnest, heroic, and always botched human efforts at transcendence.

OnePlus told its customers in a blog post that this one - hour sale is its effort to «make it up to you guys» for the botched launch of its newest device.