Sentence examples for bodge from inspiring English sources

In Geneva, they're at an early stage, in Munich, after years of debate, the politicians have apparently opted for a terrible bodge, and in London… Well: I have the sense that although nothing has been publicly announced, there are some possibly positive noises off at the moment; but whether that will turn into the churn of diggers, earth-movers, and pile-drivers remains to be seen.

That is why Mr Bush is right to accelerate the transfer of power, but also why he must not bodge it.

But it cannot bodge everything, so it must also have a small amount of other nutrients.

But it is also because they argue that military gains are ephemeral without improvements in governance, rule of law and the economy.And yet there are plenty of other examples of poor countries that manage to bodge along, misgoverned by corrupt elites.

The fear is that, as the regime of Hosni Mubarak temporises and backslides, the talks will in fact bodge together a "peaceful transition" from one military strongman to another.That, at any rate, is what the regime seems to want.

For example, great care was taken to ensure the zinc skin formed a crisp vertical upstand on the gable ends; most architects would have let the builders bodge the zinc downward over the edge of the gable-ends – easy and effective, but aesthetically crude.

That's because – I thought, as I carted yet another bag of plaster down to the bins – most of life is a compromise, a make-the-best-of-it bodge-job.

More a job bodged, and crying out to be done over again by EU heads of government when they meet in Berlin on March 24th-25th.The farm deal is an Augustinian package of promises and postponements: yes, we will cut subsidies, but not yet.

Its committees have taken to grilling government officials over economic policy, and foul-ups such as the bodged opening of Hong Kong's new airport.

Since the advent of the WTO it has become a little harder to cheat, because if one government suspects another of bodging the science it can now take the dispute to arbitration.

Even when the wind is banging over the roof that I've bodged with  corrugated iron, it's very quiet.