Sentence examples for by a haphazard from inspiring English sources

For all of the precision that presidential campaigns require, the process of selecting a nominee is dictated by a haphazard set of rules that vary by state.

They have been horrid since 2001 and capped-out since 1996, locked out of free agency by a haphazard cycle of exchanging bad contracts for worse ones.

There are still flower-covered cottages in timber and warm stone, but a high-speed roadway lies a few hundred yards to the south, and the place is joined to the unmemorable town of Maidenhead by a haphazard urban sprawl.

For an opposition led by a haphazard coalition of big businessmen, labor groups and news organization owners, today's action was the latest stage in a 19-month effort aimed at toppling Mr. Chávez.

Roger Watt agrees: in the early days, he says, the merchandise was chosen by a haphazard reliance on gut instinct, but as commercial pressure increased, the process became "more scientific".

Once, badly damaging the side of my car by a haphazard and misjudged turn in a parking lot, I openly shared with the manager of the auto body shop that I literally felt as crunched as the car as if in simpatico.

But this is by nature a haphazard process, and most countries now have, or aim to have, a national bibliography based on the acquisitions of the national library.

Even so, his work, which is now the subject of two gallery shows and a three-volume box set published by Steidl, contains a haphazard elegance that has captivated the fashion industry from the very start.

The failure of those deals has come to symbolize an organization that has replaced ingenuity and enlightened analysis with a haphazard, build-by-checkbook approach.

There and then Kaprow irreverently buried renowned works by Hepworth and Giacometti in a haphazard pile-up of old tyres.

Not to be confused with "Yankees Century" is A YANKEE CENTURY (Berkley, $26.95), a haphazard primer by Harvey Frommer on the franchise's history.