Neither the Western governments nor the Chinese government made more than a haphazard attempt to correct the abuses; the Chinese government had issued a ban on all emigration, but officials did nothing to enforce it.
But as the BBC are in charge of it themselves now, they've become so focused on winning the contest that they completely ignore the fact that it's a songwriting competition, This year, the whole UK contest was focused on finding a singer to perform the song – in what appeared to be a haphazard attempt to replicate The X Factor.
It could have pushed those sports unfamiliar to Brazilians, put its marketing muscle behind innovative ways to engage the populace, subsidised ticket prices, better supported a haphazard attempt to give away hundreds of thousands of tickets to schoolchildren, and it could have used its expertise to fix transport and signage issues and made it easier and more attractive for fans to travel.
Trump's haphazard attempt at a deal, followed by his abrupt exit, may have far-reaching consequences, analysts fear.
We lionize those who appear to multitask effortlessly and despair at our own haphazard attempts to juggle even two tasks, secretly wondering if there exists a race of superior beings whose brains are hard-wired for multitasking feats.
From its first episode onward, "The Simpsons" has begun with an elaborately animated title sequence, often including insider jokes, like the different messages that Bart Simpson scrawls on a blackboard and his family's haphazard attempts to squeeze on to a sofa together.
After nationalist rumblings, for instance, the army vetoed help from the IMF and the World Bank, despite the offer of unprecedentedly lenient terms and the urgent need to kick-start Egypt's stalling economy.Haphazard attempts to prosecute crimes committed under the pre-revolutionary regime have generated further discomfort.
A few haphazard attempts to "help business" often don't really help the economy, and taxpayers should be in full revolt about the tons of money that has been parceled out — for Empire Zones and other economic boondoggles — with not enough new jobs to show for it.
There are of course many, many plots within the intense study of the mob boss and constantly-eating, panic attack-ridden father of two – the fractious relationship with the New York family, Dr Melfi's ethical and personal conflicts over treating him, the FBI's often haphazard attempts to arrest him, Junior Soprano and his anhydrous resentment.
A few haphazard attempts to "help business" don't really help the economy, and taxpayers should be in full revolt about the tons of money that has been parceled out — for Empire Zones and other economic boondoggles — with not enough new jobs to show for it.
It's something that could be said of much Italo-disco, a genre of peculiar experiments and miscommunicated messages, an entire wealth of music born from the haphazard attempts of confused producers as they tried to create something else entirely.
