Sentence examples for pretty ad hoc from inspiring English sources
At present rules on cross-border investment can be pretty ad hoc; a firm interested in buying shares in a business in another country often needs to be careful not to buy too much or not to invest in politically sensitive industries, lest the investment invite political scrutiny.
But one has to admit that it's all pretty ad hoc; it's more a matter of offering excuses, or if you prefer, possible rationales, for an empirical observation that we probably wouldn't have predicted if we didn't know it was there.
The service is pretty ad hoc.
Training for that, he acknowledged, has been "fairly ad hoc".
Equations (1) and (2) allow us to model, in a pretty much ad hoc way, transitions between informal and formal jobs.
For Scolari, in particular, facing the most high-pressure home World Cup assignment imaginable, it must seem an entirely self-harpooning process, attempting to build a team to rule the world in Brazil while engaged in a fractured and ad hoc tour of pretty much everywhere else.
The ad hoc groups all sounded pretty terrible, and it didn't help that several times singers forgot the words.
But you have to draw the line somewhere or pretty soon you'll be making an ad hoc adjustment for the fact that Mr. Romney wore an ugly tie one day.
So I'm working on that, and it can be done — and as almost always happens, what you get is confirmation that yes, the insights from the ad hoc approach hold up pretty well.
Both are resolutely ad hoc.
