Sentences with phrase «cobbling together»

Education chairman Representative George Miller (D - CA) spoke after a 2 - hour forum arranged by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that brought together the chairs of eight House committees responsible for cobbling together the recovery plan.

Cerf reflects on the cobbling together of four network nodes, a moment that helped usher in the invention that changed life as we know it

It means that not only is the United States not in control, but the United States doesn't have the ability to execute by itself — without cobbling together a whole bunch of partners — a meaningful expedition.

I would say his paper is a really artful cobbling together of multiple lines of evidence from many different fields.

Cobbling together the genes of three different species, chemical engineer Jay Keasling (Discover's 2006 Scientist of the Year) of the University of California at Berkeley transformed a metabolic pathway in yeast that allows the engineered microbe to produce a precursor to artemisinin, a compound used to treat malaria.

But with no chance of an overall majority, can he reach the magic number by cobbling together the right assortment of partners?

«Certainly the governor drove the process by actually cobbling together the budget a la carte,» said Blair Horner, legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, adding the governor forced the issue with deadlines.

But it does allow Gibson to begin cobbling together the assets needed as a foundation for any campaign: money.

I think that from the point of view of cobbling together the necessary numbers, to rely on the Scottish Nationalist and the Northern Irish as we would have to, their demand will be that the English get all the cuts.

Linn testified that city workers have a number of options for cobbling together leave time as new parents — including comp time, sick time and as much as five weeks of vacation per year.

But cobbling together coalitions to win elections is not the same thing as delivering stable governance.

Trump understands that there are deeply unhappy people in this country and he caters to them in the hope of cobbling together a second winning coalition that will save him from impeachment.

It appears that the State's Corrections Department will be involved in cobbling together the former addresses of prisoners of their prisoners from records and THAT data will be used in the redistricting process.

Correction: It appears that the State's Corrections Department will be involved in cobbling together the former addresses of prisoners from Corrections Dept. records and THAT data will be used in the redistricting process.

You can't just go around cobbling together non conservative MP's and declaring them a progressive majority?

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

At the time, Albany lawmakers were grappling with cobbling together a redrawing of boundaries for both state and federal lawmakers, including Hayworth's Hudson Valley Congressional seat.

That Padavan vote is somewhat surprising, since the veteran Queens lawmakeris a longtime ally of Mayor Bloomberg, whose top aides, Howard Wolfson and Micah Lasher, were instrumental in cobbling together this deal.

I thought I had seen another comment identical to the cobbling together above by «Ginni» now, on another necromanced post, but I may be mistaken about that.

(We considered just cobbling together enough tables and chairs from friends to accommodate everyone, but ultimately decided to save ourselves some work and just rent them.)

She persevered, cobbling together the money she and her team of parents and teachers needed to attend a Challenge Success conference.

While this may not be enough to forestall the prospect of selling Alessio Romagnoli, taken together with the news that Mattia Destro is bound for Bologna and that West Brom might be after Seydou Doumbia, Walter Sabatini is slowly cobbling together enough funds to offset last week's spending spree.

they seem to be cobbling together guys in places that can execute certain mismatches without really overpaying anywhere.

The Indians, still scrapping, still cobbling together what they can, will have the impressively loud hometown fans behind them for Game 6 and possibly Game 7.

I love an all - in - one - pot meal, and was cobbling together a hearty, vegetarian version of her recipe with tempeh.

Roof claims that we have adopted a «reflexive spirituality» by necessity — deliberately cobbling together our own responses to the need for wholeness and encouraging others in similar efforts.

Fortunately, moving through that cafeteria line that is called the curriculum, cobbling together a life worth living, she makes it out of the maelstrom alive.

This biography is mostly a cobbling together of facts and ideas, but what it lacks in literary grace is partially made up for in the author's objectivity in evaluating the theories and personalities that shaped the «Austrian school» and its continuing impact, largely through the University of Chicago.

We understand the book is a cobbling together of myths, folklore, local legend and possibly some decent home cleaning tips, fraudulently claimed as the word of your god.

In the six months last year when Macquarie was cobbling together funding for the largest private power plant in Europe, margins moved 25 points.

Athene Holding, a top seller of fixed indexed annuities, has spent seven years cobbling together life insurance companies in the U.S. and abroad.

Sales reps are spending way too much time digging through resources to find what they need, and even more time cobbling together sales kits, presentations and documents that are relevant for their buyers.

Such reviews come as other holding companies appear just as adept as Sorrell's WPP once was at cobbling together solutions that span networks.

A polished delivery is not about cobbling together the «perfect words» and then memorizing them like a robot.

Perhaps it's because your brain is still working on low - volume, cobbling together connections that eluded it when your focus was too rigorously directed in one place.

Cobbling together a platform and building a following is incredibly hard.

That means cobbling together a 20 per cent down payment by any means necessary — whether it be relying on parents for assistance or taking out a loan.

Though fluent with computers, his real skill was negotiating — cobbling together deals with the myriad firms involved in making a single credit card swipe go through smoothly.

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

So he cobbled together a relatively easy - to - learn coding system — HTML — that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web.

And if you need to cobble together multiple plans to insure for greater risk, you at least can take comfort from knowing that there are dozens of companies that might be interested in doing business with you.

Yet another attempt at an immigration deal between lawmakers and the Trump administration floundered over the weekend as lawmakers rushed to cobble together a $ 1.3 trillion spending deal ahead of Friday's government shutdown deadline.

The availability of published APIs means that a software developer can cobble together different mini-services already available — such as Google Maps meshed with Twilio (to add SMS messaging) along with other capabilities — to make something new and different.

Laurie Pickard stands to be the first person to cobble together an entire business program's worth of classes from massive open online course platforms.

Instead, most businesses must cobble together multiple policies, which requires both time and money.

The Brooklyn - born financier cobbled together a $ 698 billion empire of seemingly unrelated businesses into Citigroup, which in the late 1990s became the model for the modern - day financial supermarket.

In addition, management cobbled together some production goals.

Magnadyne's new flashlight looks like something cobbled together by some crazed garage tinkerer, but it could very well save lives.

They said it was too risky, but then they introduced me to their private equity subsidiary and also to Sam Belzberg, and they cobbled together the $ 10 million and lent it to us at 14 % interest.

After his death, Wallace's longtime editor cobbled together the pages he'd been working on before he died and published them last year as the novel the Pale King.