Mali, a poor West African desert nation, has been ruled by a makeshift, unelected government since March 2012, with no parliament, few functioning state institutions and a weak, military junta-approved president.
The legal standards, procedural rules, and participants remain makeshift and unstable.
As volunteers with the makeshift relief efforts have applied their own rules on how to dole out relief — telling people where to wait and enforcing limits on how many blankets or food items storm victims receive — some have entered the more fraught area of applying their own values to those they are helping.
It's where kids chose sides, set up makeshift bases, picked positions and created their own rules -- and it was all miraculously done without the help of any adults.
In 1990, Albanians were either fired or quit their state jobs, and ran their own schools, hospitals and even -- in 1992 -- makeshift elections, while Serbia and its security forces formally ruled the province.
The 20-minute trek from a makeshift parking area here brings hikers to a world ruled by bobcats, bald eagles and black bears, all of it just an hour's drive from the man-made canyons of midtown Manhattan.
But the best first-half chances fell to Utrecht with Jan Wuytens' volley only ruled out for Jacob Mulenga's foul on Martin Kelly, makeshift left-back in the absence of the injured trio of Paul Konchesky, Daniel Agger and Fabio Aurelio.
July 2014: Ofcom finds Top Gear has breached broadcasting rules after Clarkson commented on there being a "slope" on a makeshift bridge across the River Kwai as an Asian man came into shot.
A Lille court ruled there was no legal basis for expelling the people running the 72 makeshift shops, but said the Calais prefect's concerns "were totally understandable".
These makeshift "Grass Courts" failed to live up to western standards of legalism (the judges were not professionals, rules of evidence were not followed) and it failed to produce satisfying punishments.
