Sentence examples for bungled operation from inspiring English sources

On the surface, the fax represented another turn toward tactical political thinking; more likely, it was an attempt to salvage a bungled operation.

Mr. Hallyday, now 68, has survived three previous marriages, kidney stones, a bout with colon cancer and the bungled operation on his spine, which became infected.

A blind man Tasered by a police officer who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword has been awarded compensation nearly three years after the bungled operation.

The Nine Network staff who trailed – and may have financed – the bungled operation were released on Wednesday, after apparently paying Amin compensation to drop the personal charges.

By late 1944, some O.S.S. intelligence failures, like a bungled operation in Italy, began to leak to the press, and there was speculation — stoked by Hoover — that Donovan and his O.S.S. were on their way out.

Now, with the lessons of the bungled operation in Jordan and the criticism arising from the recent hearings still fresh in memory, the Israeli Government needs to rethink its policy on assassinations.

Yet the troubles in Belgium run far deeper than intelligence lapses or bungled operations.

Recent years have brought one F.B.I. debacle after another: bungled operations at Ruby Ridge and Waco, the undetected betrayal by Robert Hanssen, the missing papers in the Timothy McVeigh case.

An inquiry prompted by Mr Ledward's activities found that he had bullied staff, bungled operations and damaged and mistreated patients, before the GMC eventually stopped him in 1998.

The next couple of attempts, Sidney Lumet's 1966 "Deadly Affair" (based on the novel "Call for the Dead") and Frank R. Pierson's "Looking Glass War" (1969), were largely bungled operations, though "Deadly Affair" benefits from the casting of James Mason as a version of Mr. le Carré's most famous character, the mild-mannered and deceptively wily spymaster George Smiley.

High-risk clandestine operations have involved the use of cloned identities, sophisticated disguises and cutting-edge technology But the Mossad has also attracted attention for bungled operations, including the attempted assassination of Khaled Meshaal, when agents squirted poison into the Hamas leader's ear in Amman, Jordan, in 1997.