Sentence examples similar to if managed ineptly from inspiring English sources

Globally, grassland soils, if managed properly, are important for the sake of carbon sequestration.

How can our nation invest so much time and money on federal elections, only to have the voting process be managed so ineptly?

The rise of the oligarchs was one of many grotesque results of Russia's transformation to capitalism - a shift managed so ineptly that many Russians ended up nostalgic for communism.

Iraq will be a central challenge — perhaps the central challenge — for whoever succeeds President Bush and has to repair the profound damage he has wrought with a war that should never have been fought and has been managed so ineptly.

Lawmakers in both parties clamored for change at an agency they attacked as ineptly managed, resistant to change and unwilling to admit mistakes.

The city's license program has been so ineptly managed that only one in 15 dogs are actually registered and the fees are ludicrously inadequate.

But the few good ideas are inevitably thwarted by the filmmaking, as in an ineptly managed scene that crosscuts between Anna fumbling to unlock a door and Eliot driving off, pumping gas, paying for the gas and driving back home.

"The Baltimore Sun stories simply confirmed that the agency was ineptly managed in some respects," said Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian and author of "The Secret Sentry," a history of the N.S.A.

How could the risks have been generally discounted and so ineptly managed?

Fact Two: there are allegations -- which may be true or false -- that the gun used to shoot him was in circulation only because of an ineptly managed operation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco.

Where university managers ineptly ape private-sector practices such as outsourcing, EY invents and markets them.