ill-conceived

• “What do you do when your last major show has been drowned out by boos from the stalls, called "ill-conceived and barkingly offensive" by the critics, and banned by the BBC?”

  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “My friend William Galston, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at the University of Maryland, observed, When the rules are inadequate, ill-conceived, or poorly enforced, markets malfunction badly, causing great damage.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Good Fight

• “There's still a very large possibility that it could become a fiasco, a quagmire, or whatever other term you wish to describe an ill-conceived military adventure.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Obama's Libyan Gamble, Week Two

• “The subsequent economy of force operation (while our attention shifted to Iraq), avoidance of any meaningful development effort ("we don't do nation building"), and an ill-conceived push to create a strong central government were followed by an increasing emphasis on military operations, even though it was widely recognized that there could not be a military solution.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Corcoran: Afghanistan: Time to Build

• “Here is the full text of the ill-conceived House language in the FAA reauthorization HR 658:”

  The Huffington Post: Jake Schmidt: Congress Should Not Try to Stop the Europeans From Controlling Aviation's Carbon Pollution

• “Attorney General Holder has finally dropped his ill-conceived plan to prosecute al Qaeda leaders in Manhattan, and he has now restarted the military commissions devised by the Bush administration.”

  The Wall Street Journal: From Guantanamo to Abbottabad

• “I don't think the abolitionists and the suffragists were wrongly intolerant of the ill-conceived perspectives and political machines that kept slaves and women down.”

  The Huffington Post: Christopher Cocca: The Oldest Injustice

• “I was not only taken aback by McCain's apparent level of comfort with prolonging a war where we were losing young Americans on a daily basis, but also by his continued, stubborn support for an ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-managed invasion and occupation of a country based on faulty intelligence at best, and on lies, fear mongering and deception at worst.”

  The Huffington Post: Dorian de Wind: America's '100-Year Wars'

• “Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said: The chorus of protest against Andrew Lansley's ill-conceived plans for the NHS grows louder by the day, uniting voices across the health world.”

  The Guardian: NHS reforms criticised by leading healthcare publications

• “But only striking down this ill-conceived measure can end this debacle.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Congress Is Right in Regulating Debit Card Swipe Fees

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