Sentences with phrase «in shoddy work»

«It is clear that we — as a regulatory community — must work aggressively to reform the cozy relationship between banks and consultants, which far too often has resulted in shoddy work that sweeps wrongdoing under the rug.»

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In 2004, Trump ordered three fixtures worth $ 34,000 for his Mar - a-Lago resort from them, but then refused to pay in full, saying the Jacobsons» work was shoddy, WSJ reportIn 2004, Trump ordered three fixtures worth $ 34,000 for his Mar - a-Lago resort from them, but then refused to pay in full, saying the Jacobsons» work was shoddy, WSJ reportin full, saying the Jacobsons» work was shoddy, WSJ reports.

With this much public money on the line, monitoring how US tax dollars are spent in the recovery will be crucial to prevent waste, fraud, and shoddy work.

My baking powder is getting a bit old so they spread more than puffed, but in any case didn't overflow and so despite my all - around shoddy kitchen work this evening, they were a great side to the chili I managed to not screw up too badly.

They made very hard work of a game that should have been out of sight and brought their shoddy domestic form from earlier in the season to Europe.

City Hall paid $ 2 million in a settlement to a subcontractor it had accused of shoddy work during the post-Hurricane Sandy recovery effort.

People in Britain do not want shoddy goods, shoddy services, a poor environment or exploitative working practices and I can never imagine them thinking those things to be acceptable.

The region faced at least two reported fatalities in elevation - related collapses, in addition to a flood of complaints about shoddy work, including one home, Oddo said, where an unscrupulous contractor took off without bothering to build a staircase so that owners could access their home after it was raised.

Are you prepared to accept shoddy work, inferior and even dangerous products in your pro-business, anti-worker deregulated dystopia?

The agency alleges in court papers and internal memos obtained through the Freedom of Information Law that shoddy work by architect Rogers Marvel, lead contractor Commodore Construction Corp. and other parties left the Robert Moses - era Olympic - size pool plagued with «broken» piping, extensive cracking throughout the pool's basin and deck area, and other problems.

In the case of Chreky, the judge ruled that LabCorp, one of the largest paternity labs in the country, had performed «shoddy» worIn the case of Chreky, the judge ruled that LabCorp, one of the largest paternity labs in the country, had performed «shoddy» worin the country, had performed «shoddy» work.

It's uneven in spots, and just plain odd in others, but it works just well enough to smooth over the shoddy, nonsensical moments in the end.

He shoots most of the spectacular money moments cloaked in darkness, as if to cover up shoddy CG work.

While there are some decent laughs that emerge during the course of this action - comedy sequel, almost none of them come from the unfunny script by Jeff Nathanson, the man whose only previous works were in writing shoddy scripts for Speed 2: Cruise Control and For Better or for Worse.

But, then you have to accept that all mutants age much more slowly than regular humans (okay, that could work) and that their memories are also a bit shoddy (like when Xavier says in X-Men that he and Magneto built Cerebro and in First Class it's stated that Henry McCoy (aka Beast) built it and, if you factor in the actual storyline from the comics, it gets even more confusing).

Although standards and accountability advocates have succeeded in getting states to at least create a process for developing standards, the lack of work on overhauling how states select textbooks (which is often both corrupt and incompetent) has resulted in shoddy materials that rarely align with standards and thus fails to help students learn.

Building a working Transformer model is a pretty difficult task in itself, but normally the outcome is either a shoddy vehicle or a shoddy robot.

I know a lot of self - pubbed authors are going the digital - only route, in which case there is absolutely no excuse for shoddy work (there never should be).

Jetley says he also wanted experience navigating the obstacles faced by business owners in India, including the «shoddy infrastructure, corruption and crippling bureaucracy» he observed while living and working in the country.

They are ultimately creating their own problems, though; with such absurd budgets, expectations and deadlines developers are being forced to release shoddy products, whereas in the indie industry developers work with a tighter focus, honing their craft and putting out more polished titles.

From Infinity Stones to the shoddy CGI work of Justice League and, in particular, Steppenwolf, up above you'll see «Pool throw down the Infinity gauntlet, as he lampoons every superhero movie convention and hackneyed cliche under the sun.

Comparable to the shoddy work we received in the Silent Hill HD Collection, the ZOE remasters were saddled with an unplayably low frame - rate and an inaccurate presentation which didn't respect the look of the original games.

From Infinity Stones to the shoddy CGI work of Justice League and, in particular, Steppenwolf, «Pool throws down the Infinity gauntlet, as he lampoons every superhero movie convention and hackneyed cliche under the sun.

Hunted: The Demon's Forge hasn't impressed me much in the few videos I've seen, with its rough visuals, shoddy - looking combat and Jason Statham - aping voice work.

In her work, she re-creates historical cultural events with a shoddy, slapdash aesthetic, highlighting the gap between the real and interpretation.

Living in scruffy south London, Nelson was attracted to the shoddy, makeshift quality of buildings, particularly taxi booths, which become a recurring motif in his work.

Although his work has been tirelessly compared to the Arte Povera movement, environmental concerns and politics are noticeably absent here (even if Sibony is said to be anti-institutional in his shoddy touch).

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

With the quite change with no attribution it would cast doubt over the conclusions in your paper and make it look like you did shoddy and / or dishonest work, thus damaging your credibility with the scientific community, policymakers and the public at large.

Many workers, (Steve Goddard, Tony Brown are the two that spring most readily to mind) have done great work in exposing just what a shoddy job has been made of producing the historical datasets on which all of climatology relies.

He was never assigned to work on climate change and holds a doctorate in economics, not atmospheric science or climatology, and his comments on the finding were deemed to be the «product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship,» according to a

He was never assigned to work on climate change and holds a doctorate in economics, not atmospheric science or climatology, and his comments on the finding were deemed to be the «product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship,» according to a 2009 analysis by The New York Times.

This is a perfect example on how shoddy his work is.He goes out of his way to introduce bias in his paper.A deliberate effort for the purpose of advancing a particular belief that does not exist.

Keep in mind when you do that much of what is in those papers that makes these claims is incredibly shoddy work, but go ahead and quote them.

Prof Mann is not well respected in the geological nor biologicall fields of science because of his shoddy works.

So without exonerating the IPCC in this instance — there is no defense for such shoddy work — let's attempt to inject a little sanity here.

The result, as the BBC says, «a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's three most important and established groups [NOAA, NASA, and the Met Office and Climatic Research Unit], work had been decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate skeptic circles.»

As my colleague Jerry Stifelman wrote in his piece on why being green is not enough, all the solar panels in the world wouldn't make a difference if the company was known for shoddy work or poor service.

But wherever I look at climatology I see work of such a shoddy standard that I would not accpet it from a filing clerk, let alone from a supposed «leader in the field».

The High Court has been struggling to fill its benches in the past few years, the House of Lords Constitution Committee recently citing pay, a poor relationship with government, shoddy working conditions and problems with pensions as potential reasons for this.

Apparently the judge held that she could use the stolen information (she was clobbered for a million in costs) and remarked that on the scale of bad behaviour, nicking documents from the husband in a bit of DIY detective work was pretty severe and shoddy.

Claims about irresponsible builders, shoddy homes, incompetent contractors, and real estate practitioners who surreptitiously work on behalf of sellers were the subject of two recent national broadcast reports that made many in the industry cringe.

Plenty of home sales have fallen through due to shoddy repair work, so avoid any problems by having all the paperwork in order.

There have been many horror stories in NY about shoddy underpinning work causing a complete collapse of the building next door.