Sentence examples for messy solution from inspiring English sources

A messy solution, it is true, but no messier than the problem itself.

"It's a messy solution and lacks a clear rationale," Turnbull told the public administration select committee last week.

But the fact is, it's a messy solution for a problem that needn't exist in the first place.

Let's not settle for a "messy" solution to one of the great problems facing our country — all in the name of an abstraction called practicality.

In early December, a senior official referred to what he called the "messy solution": Saddam Hussein withdraws from less than all of Kuwait and remains in power with his weapons intact.

Emergency lending, which the Fed used to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy, was "a blunt and messy solution, employed as a stopgap measure because better alternatives were not available," Mr. Dudley said.

The Americans didn't consider an airstrike on the building or using rocket-propelled grenades; those would have been loud and messy solutions, which the Special Forces, who refer to themselves as "the quiet professionals," disdain.

But, however messy this solution may seem, it looks pretty good when you realize how hopeless the current process is.

And Telefónica itself may be in no hurry to pounce on another European incumbent with weak growth prospects.After weeks of intense speculation about a merger with Telefónica, therefore, a messy Italian solution now looks likely.

Now that a messy half-solution has been cobbled together, we're cautiously allowing ourselves to breathe once more, our hearts still racing, as it dawns on us how narrowly catastrophe was averted.

Later, when the Chechnya pursued an outright separatist course, many were to praise both Mr. Yeltsin and Mr. Shaimiyev for having found a viable -- if messy -- political solution.