Sentence examples for bungled efforts from inspiring English sources

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.

It bungled efforts in the 1980s to cut costs by sharing the underpinnings of its cars across different brands, blurring their distinctiveness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Squandered Victory The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq By Larry Diamond 369 pages.

He is the author of Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq and Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation.

His 2005 book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, was one of the first books to critically analyze America's postwar engagement in Iraq.