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  • Including Griffin who specifically said they want commercial suppliers to service ISS and that Orion is illsuited and more costly for that role.

    More Space Stuff Appears Online at Change.gov - NASA Watch 2008

  • So Rummy "transforms" the military into something completely illsuited to fight any of the little irritations Boy George has thrust us into.

    "Clearly, the worst day was Abu Ghraib..." Ann Althouse 2006

  • My manners paid off, because he liked me immediately—although later that fondness led him to promote me to CEO of Sunset, a job for which I was illsuited and vice versa.

    Naked in the Boardroom Robin Wolaner 2005

  • For every person who temporarily puts up with an illsuited environment as part of a clearly focused plan, there are ten who wind up permanently stuck, glued by stasis like flies on flypaper.

    The Pathfinder Nicholas Lore 1998

  • But that same centrally-planned system is illsuited for the fast-changing global economy.

    Presidents Remarks To The Future Leaders Of Belarus ITY National Archives 1994

  • True, Eldran had served well as soldier and then as leader in the border wars, but his bloodstock was illsuited for a king.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Russia bought Cuban sugar, sent Cuba the petroleum denied by the US, and supplied machinery that was illsuited to Cuban farming.

    Inside the Revolution Leiken, Robert S. 1984

  • The problem -- I tried to set up something like this in an MS Access database, but it seems illsuited to this purpose.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • The problem -- I tried to set up something like this in an MS Access database, but it seems illsuited to this purpose.

    Wired Campus 2010

  • The problem -- I tried to set up something like this in an MS Access database, but it seems illsuited to this purpose.

    Wired Campus 2010

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