How To Use Bungle In A Sentence
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These Brits are either bunglers, incompetent, mean-spirited, or they have no minds of their own.
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From the beginning, the rescue operation was bungled.
Times, Sunday Times
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We must have botched the first task, because we've certainly bungled the second.
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She had to be dropped from the newcomer category last month after an eligibility bungle because she had already been shortlisted for best female in 2000, but lost out out to Sonique.
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If it fails, the Democrats will be seen as having broken their promises and/or having once again bungled an opportunity to fix the health care mess, and we could again be stuck with the Republicans for years.
Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
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Yes, that means more criminals in the dock and fewer bungled investigations.
Times, Sunday Times
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First, while not unreasonable, the assumption that we would bungle the task of assigning rationality is speculative.
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They need to be told that they will not become criminals because of the department's bungles and blunders.
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A robber who bungled a post office raid left police the easiest of clues.
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Evidence that British officials bungled the ink cartridge bomb crisis grew yesterday.
The Sun
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The people around let out a pitiful laugh at my bungled attempt at humour with a cringing look in their eyes.
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One of them appeared very awkward and bunglesome and his failure produced much merriment.
The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,
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He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years.
The Sun
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He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years.
The Sun
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He asks why he should be made to pay for the incompetence of the bureaucrat that bungled the repossession.
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Critics are blaming bungled attempts to find the right people to run the new Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service after pitching the initial salary too low to attract the right calibre of candidate.
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They were said to have made it look as though she died during a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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If you miss the deadline because your financial institution bungled the rollover, you may be eligible for an automatic waiver, which means you don't have to apply for relief.
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Surely, he cannot any longer be expected to bear the full brunt of our judicial and bureaucratic bungles.
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In light of what can only be described as a bungled attempt at controlling the story by Koch -- as cited in the TPM posts -- I'm still hopeful I'll receive their answer, and, if received, will update my post accordingly.
Koch Industries' Unsolicited Emails: More Questions Than Answers
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From the beginning, the rescue operation was bungled.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used to say man has had his chance - man has bungled, man has blundered, man has built up a civilization of violence and war, of hatred and strife - the new civilization will be built by women.
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Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.
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The critics were down on the author as an absurd bungler.
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The bungle has been branded ‘dismal’ by a passenger group based in Manchester, which is calling on Network Rail and train companies to start planning ahead to make sure it never happens again.
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If the projectionist bungles the job, subtitles will run off the bottom of the screen, actors' heads will be cut off, or boom microphones will bob into the frame.
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These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dan's gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat.
One of Ours
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And now we are talking a complet overhaul of our healthcare system – Let's get TRAP under control and vitaed first before we bungle another area of society that affects our health.
How Obama's transparency promise holds up
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a bungled job
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Mr. Obama told CBS television he takes the plan blame for the bungled Daschle nomination.
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About 40 officers sealed off the bank and nearby streets before it emerged that the robbers had bungled the raid and fled empty handed.
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The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered.
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FAMILIES helped themselves to 500,000 which rained down after a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op.
Another Day Another Poll
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But there's no proof that it would be free of bureaucratic bungles, or serve as a more effective early warning system against potential terrorist attacks.
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Finally, Mephistopheles leaped down off the wall to where grey cat was wriggling and rolling -- but alas, he bungled it.
ON CATS
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The term tailor is locally employed for a bungler, a botcher, or a clumsy fellow, and these meanings have been suggested in the passage quoted.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
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Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.
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The West Macs claim is likely to succeed only in a few small areas, a result of administrative bungles in the past.
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Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.
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From the beginning, the rescue operation was bungled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Red-faced council officers claim the bungle occurred only because they were trying to save taxpayers’ money.
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American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend went on trial in Italy on Friday for the murder of a fellow British student killed in what prosecutors are calling a bungled sex game.
Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
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The teacher who neither teaches nor can teach them to his pupils is a _bad teacher_; the pupil who, notwithstanding the urgent warnings of his teacher, neglects the exercises that can help him to acquire them, and fails to perfect himself in them, is a _bungler_.
How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
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The strips of gunny sacking which he had refused because they looked bunglesome he could see now were an immense protection against cold and wet.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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Japanese police bungled a raid on the home of the key suspect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far from being a case of bungled incompetence, this has been a cynical political calculation to undermine Labour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Praising naval commandos for an operation that Israeli military affairs commentators have described as bungled, Barak said at the marines 'base near the port of Haifa that they had carried out their mission under difficult circumstances.
Breaking News - The Post Chronicle
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Raised on a diet of historical bungles, betrayals and defeats, we've hardly an ounce of self-belief left.
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not once -- leastwise, that is to say ----" A guilty memory of Rosherwich made him bungle here.
The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
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Every bungle is followed by the same sorry litany.
Think Progress » In Katrina’s Wake, Administration Requests More Money For Iraqi Reconstruction
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The couple's appeal heard police bungled the investigation and DNA evidence was tainted.
The Sun
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Sam bungled over the word chiropodist, but was put right by the doctor.
The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets
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But someone (don't ask who) bungled the order, and men and horses on the valley floor charged straight into firing cannons.
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And crucial files from the bungled police investigation were'lost '.
The Sun
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Today we know of a new bungle which will deliver an average debt to Australian families of an additional $400 to $800.
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Police apologised after the bungled raid but advised the couple to get rid of the plant.
The Sun
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Evidence that British officials bungled the ink cartridge bomb crisis grew yesterday.
The Sun
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Let's hope I don't bungle any of my assignments.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Startling Change in Educational Background and Voting Preference:
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My antipathy is not the result of some journalistic hangover from years of writing and reading stories about bungled management, deadline-defying delays and vertiginous cost rises.
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Far from being a case of bungled incompetence, this has been a cynical political calculation to undermine Labour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far from being a case of bungled incompetence, this has been a cynical political calculation to undermine Labour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nobody gaffs and puts back pike into Lough Mask so it must have managed to escape from a bungled gaffing attempt.
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Critics initially bemoaned bungled handovers from London and perceived parochialism.
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From start to finish the whole operation was ill-conceived, hurriedly executed and bungled.
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O'Brien, whose group favors a female priesthood, said that while he understood the technical distinction of different types of Church crimes, putting the two together was another example of what he called bungled communications.
Reuters: Top News
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They were said to have made it look as though she died during a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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The service is big on smiles, but low on polish - our initial order for mineral water is completely bungled.
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Her lawyers insist she is the victim of a bungled MI5 operation and are mounting an appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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And why these repeated banking bungles in the hi-tech city, supposedly the ultimate destination in India for software companies and foreign banks, alone?
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Colin Prior, a Scottish photographer, has taken his own panoramas of the Namib Desert in addition to other wild places, including Kenya, the Sahara Desert and Bungle Bungle in Australia.
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The bungles allowed St Louis to draw level a second and third time after twice trailing by two runs late in the game.
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A bungled attempt at architectural balloon art?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Startling Change in Educational Background and Voting Preference:
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But a minister should also be prepared to accept blame and responsibility for the mistakes and bungles made.
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However, when the crowds arrived on Saturday morning the USGA looked like incompetent bunglers to the 10,000 or so of paying punters trying to get into the Bridge Gate.
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The bungle was the result of 'misunderstanding at multiple levels' about the machine's use.
FOXNews.com
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K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government's bungled pit closures.
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The vendor that's implicated is accused of getting its faulty capacitor formula through an incident of bungled industrial espionage.
Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives
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The couple's appeal heard police bungled the investigation and DNA evidence was tainted.
The Sun
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Sentimental souls are invited to renew their acquaintance with the Warrumbungle National Park during its 50 year celebrations next month.
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Police apologised after the bungled raid but advised the couple to get rid of the plant.
The Sun
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Yes, that means more criminals in the dock and fewer bungled investigations.
Times, Sunday Times
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Japanese police bungled a raid on the home of the key suspect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Obama told CBS television he takes the blame for the bungled Daschle nomination.
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But these are bad times for organised crime in America - its popularity is down, and the public are more likely to view perpetrators as laughable bunglers rather than coldly efficient professionals.
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(She, by the way, has a shorter, wider head; nowhere near the happenin 'scale patterns of this sartorial scurrier; and a relatively short and absolutely patternless gray tail that's clearly grown in replacement of her original tail, for which some bungler of a bird probably had to settle.
JohnShore.com
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It looks as though you've bungled again.
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Joint interests could cause you more concern than anything else and you may feel that a partner has bungled matters here.
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Within the opening 30 minutes of play, about five goal attempts were bungled as the players misdirected shots that could have easily been placed into the nets.
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He was supposed to be dead a year ago, but the Wildcard had bungled her assignment.
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Australian firm admits China name bungle in mega-deal miner Resourcehouse Tuesday admitted giving the wrong name for a
WN.com - Articles related to 'Decades to run' for China growth: Australia bank official
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Obama told CBS Television , television he takes the plan blame for bungle Dashle bungled Daschle nomination.
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The gateway to the World Heritage Bungle Bungles is a small community called Warmun, halfway between Halls Creek and Kununurra in the east Kimberley.
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They were said to have made it look as though she died during a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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The recent bungled challenge to his leadership has been damaging to him and the party.
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Mr. Obama told CBS Televison television he takes the blame for the bungle bungled Daschle nomination.
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Praising naval commandos for an operation that Israeli military affairs commentators have described as bungled, Mr. Barak said at the marines 'base near the port of Haifa that they had carried out their mission under difficult circumstances.
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Dominant vegetation is eucalypt woodland with a grassy understory, although lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and bullwaddy (Macropteranthes keckwickii) vegetation harbors rainforest elements, and small pockets of mesic vegetation are found throughout the ecoregion, in riparian strips and in sheltered gorges of the Bungle Bungles.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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Although he had prepared the expedition with meticulous care, the campaign was bungled.
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His health nightmares began when a German surgeon bungled a routine operation to unblock his arteries eight years ago.
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And crucial files from the bungled police investigation were'lost '.
The Sun
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The bungle meant she spent two weeks on a gastroenterology rather than a gynaecology ward.
The Sun
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He faces 20 allegations including drinking alcohol while on call, botched surgery and bungled use of equipment.
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Contrary to the Hollywood stereotype, the Nazi armies were far from being filled with rigid bunglers.
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‘Christ, we got away with one there,’ is an oft heard phrase hereabouts after yet another bungle in the field or a rank howler from the men in white.
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The backdown is a tacit admission the free-to-air networks bungled their first attempt to pitch digital free-to-air TV to national consumers when they launched the Freeview brand in November.
The Australian | News |
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The simplest orders and directions received from his troop's commander, he either forgot to perform or executed in such a bunglesome manner as to drive Lieutenant Perkins 'irritable nature to the verge of hysteria.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
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Sky channel subscribers in York reacted angrily to the bungle, which could have led to monthly payments of £9 being taken out of their accounts for the next two years.
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My experience is that they are such bunglers that such an offer would be highly irrelevant.
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The winters in Virginia, mild except for occasional freezes, with now and then snowfall during the three winter months, proved less arduous to the Englishmen than the two months of midsummer, when the mercury reaching into the nineties brought discomfort, especially since the men and women were clothed in the bunglesome garments, necessary in a cool zone frequently overhung with fog.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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If you bungle a job, you must do it again!
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Joint interests could cause you more concern than anything else and you may feel that a partner has bungled matters here.
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We must have botched the first task, because we've certainly bungled the second.
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Once he bungled a somersault, but managed such a smooth entry into the next exercise that the spectators never suspected that anything was amiss.
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Yes, that means more criminals in the dock and fewer bungled investigations.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the mistakes and bungles didn't stop at the conclusion of the war to end all wars.
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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FAMILIES helped themselves to 500,000 which rained down after a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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The printing bungle has turned the deputy's face a luscious shade of avocado with primrose yellow undertones.
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I bungled it!
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His memorable departure from the series came in 2002 after his on screen character, Hector, bungled an attempt to blow a killer pike out of the loch using a remote controlled boat and explosives.
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Can you guess which famous British names have been bungled by predictive text here?
The Sun
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Australian firm admits China name bungle in mega-deal miner Resourcehouse Tuesday admitted giving the wrong name for a metal consumer, will add to last year's record $32 billion spending on resource acquisitions as demand for iron ore,
WN.com - Articles related to Sentula sells coal mine stake, shares jump
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According to his spokesman, the PM's last Cabinet meeting was a jovial affair, with Brown recalling his bungled attempts to woo Sarah.
Home | Mail Online
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The story follows loveable Irish rogue Jimmy who is imprisoned, with his partner-in-crime Rudy, after a bungled robbery.
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Opposition Leader John Robertson said the bungle was an "absolute disgrace" and the Premier should put interim contacts in place.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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Nobody has expressed regret that a series of bungles and questionable decisions drove a man to suicide.
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Today's front page of The Sun carries a banner headline "The adulterer, the bungler and the joker.".
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Finally, Mephistopheles leaped down off the wall to where grey cat was wriggling and rolling -- but alas, he bungled it.
ON CATS
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Within the opening 30 minutes of play, about five goal attempts were bungled as the players misdirected shots that could have easily been placed into the nets.
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Police apologised after the bungled raid but advised the couple to get rid of the plant.
The Sun
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On 18 March, government troops bungled an attempt to remove cannon placed on the heights of Montmartre, which provoked the feared rebellion.
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The bungle is attributed to haste and sloppiness.
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However, with a victory target of 226, Mon Repos bungled the task and finished at 105 for 8, to avoid a match defeat.
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The FBI and the CIA seem to have bungled things, to put it gently.
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Fiddled expenses, lavish trips and bungled paperwork had become commonplace at the Paris headquarters, a national audit report concluded.
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But a minister should also be prepared to accept blame and responsibility for the mistakes and bungles made.
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A bungled attempt at architectural balloon art?
Times, Sunday Times
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And crucial files from the bungled police investigation were'lost '.
The Sun
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Her lawyers insist she is the victim of a bungled MI5 operation and are mounting an appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years.
The Sun
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The European parliament has bungled its latest attempt to outlaw spam.
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Since 1993, when the octet formed as a side project, few bands have been doing the alternative thing, as influenced by Faith No More and Mr. Bungle.
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The gang spent a year planning the robbery and then bungled it.
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If the training of the bowels and bladder will replace the diapers with drawers, the baby will attempt to walk sooner than when encumbered with a bunglesome bunch of diaper between the thighs.
The Mother and Her Child
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a farcically inept bungler
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Her lawyers insist she is the victim of a bungled MI5 operation and are mounting an appeal.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has also emerged that the cost of the huge bungle has risen still further, as red-faced officials have warned ministers that they are preparing to write off £14.4m paid out during the fiasco.
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A bungled attempt at architectural balloon art?
Times, Sunday Times
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Another strand involves three inept gangsters and a dog, who bungle every job they attempt, and whose dog you just know is going to become a crucial part of the plot.
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Not even her feignt reflection, Nuvoluccia, could they toke their gnoses off for their minds with intrepifide fate and bungless curiasity, were conclaved with Heliogobbleus and Commodus and Enobarbarus and whatever the coordinal dickens they did as their damprauch of papyrs and buchstubs said.
Finnegans Wake
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evidence that British officials bungled the ink cartridge bomb crisis grew yesterday.
The Sun
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He faces 20 allegations including drinking alcohol while on call, botched surgery and bungled use of equipment.
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Australia miner admits China name bungle in mega-deal
Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
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What amount of obtuseness will disqualify a criticaster who itches to be tinkering and cobbling the noblest passages of thought that ever issued from mortal brain, while at the same time he stumbles and bungles in sentences of that simplicity and grammatical clearness, as not to tax the powers of a third-form schoolboy to explain? [
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito are on trial in Italy on Friday for the murder of Kercher, who was killed in what prosecutors are calling a bungled sex game.
ABC News: ABCNews
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That raid was bungled by the robbers, who just managed to escape by crossing the River Thames on a speedboat.
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He is an unskilled worker who bungles consistently.
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Australian firm admits China name bungle in mega-deal
WN.com - Articles related to Winston Churchill, his mother and the philandering Prince
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The gang spent a year planning the robbery and then bungled it.
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It may also blur the fact that it is the minister who shoulders political responsibility for any misjudgment or bungled operation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gang bungled the job and got caught.
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FAMILIES helped themselves to 500,000 which rained down after a bungled robbery.
The Sun
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These combined odours somewhat dispersed Dans gloom when he came back in squeaky Sunday shoes and a bunglesome cut-away coat.
XVII. Book One: On Lovely Creek
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Now he faces prison again after admitting fresh offences, including a bungled attempt to steal two laptops from the Great Western Hospital.
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a load of bunglesome paraphernalia
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He is an unskilled worker who bungles consistently.
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If I bungled this mission it would look horrible on my record.
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The Chinese bungled the experiments with this deadly virus and unwittingly unleashed it upon themselves and their neighbors.
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(Troll prophylactic: yes, Mr. Tenet was a holdover from the Clinton administration, but the claim that it's all Bill Clinton's fault, along with everything else that the Bush administration has managed to bungle, is fatuous.
With Friends Like These...
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The Government, when the bungle was first announced, estimated $500 million.
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Surely, he cannot any longer be expected to bear the full brunt of our judicial and bureaucratic bungles.
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CNN's Jill Dougherty reports that Pelosi is being slammed over what critics call a bungled effort at diplomacy.
CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007
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Dominant vegetation is eucalypt woodland with a grassy understory, although lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and bullwaddy (Macropteranthes keckwickii) vegetation harbors rainforest elements, and small pockets of mesic vegetation are found throughout the ecoregion, in riparian strips and in sheltered gorges of the Bungle Bungles.
Victoria Plains tropical savanna
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I've read some books about American top-level bunglers, but ours can beat them every time!
KARA KUSH
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Japanese police bungled a raid on the home of the key suspect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another acquaintance of my morning saunter was the debonair Arkansas goldfinch, which has received its bunglesome name, not from the State of
Birds of the Rockies
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They claim the bungle may have helped to fuel the alarming childhood obesity crisis in the UK and associated problems such as heart disease and diabetes in later life.
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Compensation for pensioners left out of pocket by Inland Revenue computer glitches is just the latest in a costly string of bungles, says the study by Computing magazine.
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They claim that he removed healthy wombs and bungled routine operations, leaving them with bladder, kidney and liver damage.
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Mr. Assayas's fluid camera, sensitivity to actorly dynamics, and affinity for globalized scenarios flow perfectly, animating a historical cipher as a vain, ego-driven, real-life Bond villain who seduces dark-eyed women and Third World leaders with equal ease — even if most of his operations were bungled jobs.
The Best of the Fest
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From the word sabot, comes the verb saboter: "to bungle," literally, "to walk noisily": with it, the reminder to no longer stomp, but to tiptoe past the Gallic culture that still whispers out from every French nook and cranny, to travel forward--light on my feet--so as not to "sabotage" this French experience.
Mother-in-law
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Finally, in 1258 a bungled deal with the Papacy threatened Henry with excommunication.
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Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.
