Sentences with phrase «bungled attempt»
The phrase "bungled attempt" means a failed or unsuccessful effort to do something, often due to mistakes or clumsiness. Full definition
He regularly bungled attempts at controlling the ball and misplaced passes when not under much pressure.
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NEW YORK CITY — State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son conducted a brazen bribery and kickback scheme for years, bilking money from an environmental company while making bungling attempts to try to evade authorities, according to officials and court documents.
On the consoles, Need for Speed: Shift was seen as a return to form by the franchise after a series of bungled attempts to recapture the magic of NFS: Underground.
And what we've seen over the past few years is a mishandling of our royalty framework, a bungled attempt to fix it that has all shattered investor confidence.»
Simpson, 70, could be released as early as October 1st having served by then, the minimum of his nine - 33 year armed - robbery sentence for a bungled attempt to snatch sports memorabilia and other mementos he claimed had been stolen from him.
And Albany's latest mess, as detailed in the state inspector general's report on the bungled attempts to steer the Aqueduct casino deal to wired developers, is truly rank.
Lighting up the Internet in India are bizarre allegations that a researcher at the country's premier defense lab was attacked with an ax in a bungled attempt at human sacrifice.
• In a bungled attempt at clarification of a letter by Valerie Yule about using concert technology to help older people discriminate dialogue (19 March, p 33), we added a sentence saying that compensating for the difficulty of picking out voices from low - frequency background noise «often requires that the radio or television be turned up to a level unpleasant for younger ears».
In a bungled attempt to anticipate the wishes of their new political bosses, the U.S. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) on Monday imposed what was widely interpreted as a gag order on its scientists communicating with the public.
In a bungled attempt to impress Roger, Florence recounts the story of a sexual misadventure that sends Roger storming out the door in a jealous rage.
Unable to find buyers, in what is widely considered a bungled attempt, Reed took them off the table.
But manga publishers, both in the US and Japan, are also to blame for their fear of New Media and their bungled attempts at digitizing their stuff.