Sentences with phrase «haphazard at»

The services are haphazard at best and they seem clueless about how to help motivate a gifted student.

I should note right up front that my «sampling approach» here was not at all scientific; it was haphazard at best.

While the works might seem haphazard at first glance, Denise's use of color, texture, and spatial relationships between objects are carefully decided through a process which is playful yet restrained.

Ask yourself why so many traders fail so often with quick - fix, complex, and outrageous «magic» trading methods like Elliot wave, Fibonacci extensions, and indicators like Stochastics, MACD and RSI... this stuff is haphazard at best and catalysts for blowing out your trading account at worst.

Content marketing goes out the window because it's haphazard at best.

But while the Obama administration obsessed over output numbers, its attention to the inputs in the system was ad hoc and haphazard at best.

Similarly, attempting to counterattack when under fire from the military is haphazard at best.

The 90 - day deletion policy was first adopted in June of 2013, but its enforcement to date has been haphazard at best, employees and officials say.

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It's simply a haphazard look at a bunch of renters, most of whom happen to live in low - income neighbourhoods.

Coming up with social media goals for our marketing team here at Buffer has often been a bit haphazard for me.

The various investments of the Downtown Project may seem haphazard, but one of Hsieh's big ideas is investing in people — whether or not they have expertise in the matter at hand.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneAt first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat the whim of the gardener.

I kind of grinned at the sneaky goodness of God, the kind that tiptoes up behind you, because without a lot of fanfare, because in a rather haphazard and organic way, I have found my tribe.

We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process, time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived, measured in millionths of a second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.

The fact that you have issues capitalizing names (kenrick and Benjamin...) and the haphazard way you keep doing it throughout the sentence shows that at best you tried to emphasize somewords and don't understand the finer points of capitalization.

I was born an Episcopalian and was at best a haphazard attendee.

The teaching of non-fiction texts, especially at Key Stage 3 (age 11 -14), is often a rather haphazard affair and so, if Catholic teachers are not careful, Catholic perspectives on the world can easily be written out of the curriculum here too.

After thoroughly reviewing existing literature on the pros and cons of crop diversification, and interviewing local experts, it became clear that some Ghanaian cocoa farmers do diversify — most commonly in the form of shade crops or intercrops at the early stages of the cocoa plant's life — but the approach is uncoordinated and haphazard.

There were no doubt some eyebrows raised at the Hammers starting eleven but a look at the bench shows how few options there are available at the moment — the bare bones can be partly put down to bad luck with injuries but it is mostly the result of haphazard and arbitrary player recruitment practices.

The guillotine has finally fallen on the Russian's haphazard career at Toro Rosso; Daniil was sometimes able to match Carlos Sainz's pace, though sometimes he was able to match Pastor Maldonado's ability to cosy up to other cars.

She wasn't too interested, and on an entirely selfish level, I could hardly picture myself being able to race with her to any bathroom whilst pregnant with twins when at best all I had in me was a haphazard waddle.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex in Washington State underscored what critics have long been saying: The toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staffers employed an informal and sometimes haphazard system for exchanging and storing sensitive information and were at times either unaware or unconcerned with State Department policy, documents from an FBI investigation into her private email server system show.

Vague historical records suggest that a typically haphazard treasure hunt at the site followed, from which no findings or documentation survived.

The sex life of a seaweed seems at first glance haphazard — sperm and eggs spill into the water, to either fuse or die.

Many of these routines are put into practice without rhyme or reason — just a haphazard effort at best.

I am more haphazard — whatever I am feeling at the time..

Keep them about the same height, but roll / cuff them at slightly different angles and widths to make them look effortless and a little haphazard.

The sweet updos and rosy lips at Fendi were counteracted with haphazard black eye make up that looked like a set of drawn on extra lashes.

«Thor: The Dark World» is gaining an equal mix of positive and negative reviews although Oliver Lyttelton called the movie «enjoyable in spots, but haphazard and ultimately unsatisfying» which probably won't ruin it at the box office, but could prove that no directed has perfected the «Thor» formula yet.

Gordon's direction is haphazard to say the least, going for broad comedy one moment, straightforward action - comedy at another, vulgar comedy a few beats after that and total The Naked Gun style joke - a-second parody comedy right after that.

«A CHRISTMAS TALE» At first sight, it appears to be as gaudy and haphazard as the celebration it depicts, until the stylistic and narrative chaos settles into something dark, precise and deeply moving.

US Childcare System Makes «Having It All» All the More Difficult Huffington Post, July 18, 2012 «While the question of whether anyone can «have it all» remains open for discussion, it is clear that our haphazard childcare system, with its inconsistent monitoring and paucity of reliable information on the quality of individual programs, makes striking this balance all the more difficult for parents with young children,» writes Todd Grindal, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

But they are not part of the public school systems that have staffs assigned to gather and release test score results, so their data sometimes emerge in a haphazard way, or not at all.

And that can mean fuzzy or haphazard mix - and - match attempts at personalizing student learning — attempts that aren't explicitly driven by what teachers want their students to know and be able to do when they leave school.

Rather pleasingly, the haphazard wiring in my brain has taken random sources of diversion and arrived at what is surely one the most pressing questions of any petrolhead's life.

It's a Sunday night and the place is deserted, but a look at the security tapes the next morning will reveal a mysterious man in a G - wagen doing well - intentioned, if haphazard, plow work.

So we had a few Google Alerts configured to help us track the buzz about the book on the Web, and we quickly realized how haphazard the modern editorial process is for content sites the world over, some of whom link to Amazon as affiliates, some of whom link to the publisher page for the book, a few of whom were enterprising enough to link to Adam's site directly, and some of whom link to nothing at all.

BEST ENCOUNTER AT A WRITING CONFERENCE: A slightly wild - eyed writer sat across from me with a haphazard stack of papers and proceeded to pitch me the proposal he had stayed up all night working on at Kinko's after his own printer had run out of inAT A WRITING CONFERENCE: A slightly wild - eyed writer sat across from me with a haphazard stack of papers and proceeded to pitch me the proposal he had stayed up all night working on at Kinko's after his own printer had run out of inat Kinko's after his own printer had run out of ink.

And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too.

And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

This is because a haphazard way of writing thesis is not entertained by the professors at any cost.

When I got my Kindle, I was surprised at the haphazard production quality of some of the books on it, and thought I could help fix the problem and so I launched Kindle Wizards to do it.

However, most traders do not put in the necessary time required to reach the point of truly mastering one Forex trading strategy at a time, instead they quickly skim through material in a haphazard manner because they can not resist the urge to start trading real money.

This is in direct contrast to many other trading strategies or systems out there that might require a trader to trade with numerous different indicators while trying to trade the news at the same time... it's pretty hard to become a «specialist» of such a messy and haphazard trading style.

If you trade one approach this time, and a different approach at another time, your performance will more than likely be haphazard.

So, left with the needlessly haphazard option of capitalizing the OP at some multiple deemed «safe», like 6x, and subtracting the implied net debt of ~ 6m to give $ 36 of «value».

1st week has been haphazard as they are generally nipping at my ankles, but have typically been doing twice a day and probably overfeeding a bit.

While there are chemical treatments that be sprayed on your lawn to hopefully kill fleas and ticks, this is a haphazard approach at best.

Switching between different over the counter foods is a haphazard method of curing food allergies and at best will achieve limited response.