Sentences with phrase «of shoddy work»

And fire anyone who lies or refuses to answer, or provides the climate equivalent of shoddy work and substandard concrete.»

This kind of shoddy work is unacceptable from any scientific body, let alone one funded by the American taxpayer.

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

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

Not exact matches

Oregon also accuses Oracle of breach of contract, along with civil racketeering, for «failing to deliver on its obligations, overcharging for poorly trained Oracle personnel to provide incompetent work, hiding from the state the true extent of Oracle's shoddy performance, continuing to promise what it could not deliver, and willfully refusing to honor its warranty to fix its errors without charge.»

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.

Once a teacher has worked for a minimum period of time, they can not be easily fired even if their performance is shoddy.

So many factors have worked against the implementation of this important practice including unnecessary suspicions, lack of commitment on the part of our governments, fear of shoddy implementation and red - tapism etc..

The Energy Minister is also eyeing the presidency and so he wanted to use the committee to investigate the rot but because of the irreparable damage that will come after the investigations, the BNI was asked to cover it up with their shoddy work,» he alleged.

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.

«There is no way that the people of this country will accept any shoddy work from any contractor from now going, and I have said it and indicated that, we as a government and the employer, will make sure we discharge our side of the obligation, and we shall take every engineer, every contractor who does a shoddy work.»

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» work.

Washington, D.C. — Shoddy working conditions, poor mentoring, and «embarrassingly inadequate» compensation for Ph.D. scientists are unfortunate but long - standing traits of the postdoctoral workforce, the National Academy of Sciences reported earlier this week.

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

THE DVD Not helping things, of course, is the fact that Dark Sky's fullscreen DVD presentation is an extraordinarily shoddy piece of work that contains a surplus of combing, moiré problems, and pulses of grain and light.

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.

Fears of a shoddy sequel were quickly put to rest by news that Capcom's Keiji Inafune and other Dead Rising alumni would be working closely with Blue Castle Games.

Only later did we learn there is a marked difference between the exquisite workmanship of true artisans and the shoddy work done on rugs that will leave your floors stained with dye.

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.

The NEA gave $ 250,000 to the Economic Policy Institute, whose reports (including the shoddy work of its Broader Bolder Approach unit) always dovetail with the views of the union and the rival AFT.

The gatekeepers love to point out the shoddy quality of some self - published work and they'd be right.

The risks for authors is the possibility of signing with an unethical publisher that produces shoddy work and charges outrageous fees.

Michael, your commentary is a shoddy piece of work — arbitrary and faddish.

If one considers Amazon's beef with traditional publishing around ebooks — the tactic of warning readers will eventually point fingers at nearly all traditionally published books and the shoddy / amateur indie books, and less at the professional indie authors» works.

Their product is shoddy at best, and instead of improving it they have a pattern of monopolizing the business and killing technology that does work.

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).

Student loan borrowers worked hard to get an education and took on the personal responsibility to pay for it, they've earned a fair shot at the middle class instead of the shoddy treatment that they're getting from Ron Johnson.»

What f is wrong with some of you people, Gabe Newell is a lazy programmer, Valve itself is full of lazy programmers, considering they're failed attempt with the Orange Box, they've publicly and openly gave the finger to a whole gaming community just because it was too hard, and people critisized them for shoddy work.

Man of Action is working on the cartoon and writer Joe Kelly took to Twitter to help fans from worrying about this being a shoddy project.

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.

you at vicarousvisions kind of owe vita that for your shoddy work on call of duty that eventually led to a shovelware studio dumping it out and sony abandoning the platform

Another possibility was that the people that did the translation were either too ashamed of their work to be listed; or, perhaps Namco Bandai fired these people for their shoddy work but decided to release the game anyway for a quick buck.

The port work of these games to Switch is also on point and is not some shoddy rush job.

The sheer volume of content coupled with the solid 60 fps gameplay does work to offset the shoddy character graphics.

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.

Ai Weiwei has his major exhibition at the Royal Academy and one work looks at how shoddy construction led to the deaths of thousands, largely children, during an earthquake.

However, Polke's paradoxical work, with its shoddy representation of desirable foods and other commodities, was above all a parody of western commercialism.

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.

It's as though there's an unlimited army of recruits available, ready and willing to be handed shoddy ammunition and then sent «over the top» only to mowed down willy - nilly leaving no impression other than fatigue and a slight diminishing of patience on the part of those who're working to maintain RC's responsiveness.

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.

My brother was there and has an endless supply of stories of how Halliburton, etc., employees interfered with the troops, did shoddy work, endangered people, and harrassed and exploited the Iraqis.

Its hard to believe anyone but a true believer could take such shoddy work seriously, and should call into question the critical thinking skills of anyone who did and their ability to evaluate climate related science.

The other dimension to the issue of «noble cause» support — and arguably the more important dimension — is the degree to which shockingly - shoddy work is being covered up and / or defended.

PS I also think that a lot of what is said to be «climate science» is disgracefully shoddy work done by disgracefully bad «scientists» and unquestioningly accepted by gullible fools.

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.

I think he has contributed more to public misunderstanding of the global warming issue than any other scientist and believe his work to be shoddy and intellectually dishonest.

However, not with a few additional footnotes or citations but with a written acknowledgement from Wegman that it was a shoddy piece of work.

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