Sentence examples for makeshift system from inspiring English sources

Instead, the United States has opted for a makeshift system of increasing complexity and dysfunction.

"But it's not a solution to have such a ragtag, makeshift system".

Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, said she understood New Yorkers' frustrations with the makeshift system.

A makeshift system of plastic bags and buckets is rigged to collect the rain water that often leaks in.

And at Albany Street in Battery Park City, where Mr. Cilffi wanted to jog his makeshift system east, an enormous red crane blocked the way.

Instead, they rely on a makeshift system of payday lenders, check cashers and prepaid cards — none of which show up in the Big Three.

Converts tend to see the faith they were raised in as an exasperatingly makeshift and jury-rigged system: Anglican converts to Catholicism are relieved not to have to defend Henry VIII's divorces; Jewish converts to Christianity are relieved to get out from under the weight of all those strange Levitical laws on animal hooves.

This contaminated water must be drawn off every day to prevent it from overwhelming makeshift systems that cool the melted reactors.

It has also said a dangerous loss of power at one of the reactors in recent months was caused by a rat that nibbled on exposed wiring, underlining the fragility of the makeshift systems at the plant.

In particular, it has scrambled to build enough tanks to hold millions of gallons of radioactive water produced by groundwater that has flowed into the cracked reactor buildings, and must be removed before it overwhelms makeshift systems for cooling the damaged reactor cores.

Such makeshift systems might include a mix-and-match of outdated components (for example: a 13" CRT television hooked up to your grandfather's 1960s-era stereo system, with PA speakers left over from your high-school garage band days).