Sentences with phrase «own ragbag»

The United States team that so humiliated England at Belo Horizonte in the 1950 World cup was a ragbag collection of part - timers and international nonentities.

Unlike much of the rest of the EU — and unlike Germany, which has posted a major success story in growing its renewable sector — the UK has mostly eschewed the simple FIT approach to support in favour of a ragbag of measures.

The ragbag of candidates have no platform in common apart from having signed up to the «Bell principles», drawn up by ex-Independent MP Martin Bell, which amount to little more than agreeing to be «free from the control of any political party», yet also committing to «work with other elected independents as a group with a chosen spokesperson» - which sounds to me like the makings of a political party, but there you go.

The peer writes: «Like a brand - new car that loses a chunk of its value the moment it is driven off the forecourt, the Lib Dems were bound to lose part of their ragbag coalition of voters as soon as they entered government.

I am sure your comments will aid us immensely in persuading them that the best chance of removing the current ragbag government is to vote Labour.

he says excitedly, inviting me to peer into the ragbag lichen through a magnifying lens.

In this ragbag of his popular and semipopular writings, he ranges from quantum theory to extraterrestrial life, from science teaching to the arms race.

Actually, I know that there are many people with autoimmune in the same boat, having a ragbag of symptoms that seem to require conflicting.

Set in Tokyo, it is a tale of a ragbag family led by the Fagin - like Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), who works a construction job but really spends time pilfering from supermarkets.

It's not that «Annihilation» is lacking in interesting concepts, it's that they're wrapped around predictable subplots and a ragbag of conflicting tones.

Just a ragbag collection of knee - jerk reactive sound bites led by the issue du jour.

Getting on for 14 years old and with 87,000 miles on the clock, it nevertheless seems like a remarkably honest, unmolested example, carrying a predictable ragbag of minor niggles that would be easy to put right: a dodgy sunroof seal that generates a gale of wind - noise at speed (alleviated by raising the tilt action of the sunroof an inch or so); an adjustable steering wheel that seems to be stuck in a rather low - slung position (not a problem for me or, presumably, for Mark as it's his daily driver); and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a slightly tappety tickover.

I started to realize that there was a great hunger and thirst for regular, cynical, ragbag people to talk about God and goodness and virtue in a tone that didn't frighten and upset you, or make you feel that you were doing even more poorly than you'd thought.

Given the embarrassing and boring ragbag of art at biennials in 2009, the so - called biennial «Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again» at castillo / corrales in Paris was stimulating.

So in summary, what we have is a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at.

A ragbag of irrelevant physics strung together incoherently.

a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at.

Confronted with obstinate refusal by nature to comply with climate model predictions / projections, she now has serious doubts and makes it very clear to the ragbag collection of looney warmista that, like it or not, they have a very uncomfortable reality to confront.