Sentence examples for a bungled effort from inspiring English sources

There were other factors (everyone has a list), including a bungled effort by an interventionist government to help (too little, too late); the advent of supermarkets; the ubiquity of refrigeration, or paved roads, or travel agencies; the culture of electricity (if only that hadn't arrived).

The search for a successor to Mr. Masur began inauspiciously, with a bungled effort to begin easing him out after barely seven years on the job.

He mixed some progressive measures banning bullfighting and promoting gay marriage with a bungled effort to return the private rubbish-collection system to public hands.This ended up costing him his job.

Vinnie, however, noticed a particularly gruesome detail: the murderer, Charles Dingle, had forced one of the bar's patrons, a woman, to cut off his victim's head, in a bungled effort to disguise the identity of the corpse.

The Saudis, French and Americans have all bungled efforts to avoid this outcome; for now, they seem likely to let Lebanon stew in its internal political mess and foreign debt.

Diamond is a meticulous social scientist who, in "Squandered Victory," took on the task of studying America's bungled effort to bring democracy to Iraq.

He depicted himself as a convenient target for American officials who want to use Russia as a scapegoat for their own bungled efforts to run guerrilla wars.

This law, born from the bungled efforts of a young Clinton White House to court favor with its gay supporters, and the resulting backlash of conservatives, basically institutionalized lying in the military.

The opposition's confused and mistaken opposition to new rules on foreign investment in retail in India, and its bungled efforts in forcing a vote on the issue in parliament, make it look hostile to pro-growth measures just as India's economy slows to less than 6% GDP growth.

In the interviews, the former party officials also disclosed details of a clandestine mission to China shortly before the bombing, and the group's bungled efforts to ship Chinese weapons to the Philippine Communists' emerging armed wing, the New People's Army.

Embarrassing investigative failures during the group's active years have been compounded by reports of bungled efforts to cover up miscues through shredded and misplaced documents.