It elicited huge praise for Germany's humane approach, but ultimately it has proven unmanageable.
The task of providing everybody with homes ultimately proved unmanageable: proliferating slums outpaced new construction; poverty rose.
She ends up spending the night; but the cat, vicious, bloodthirsty, proves unmanageable, and the waitress loses interest in both of them.
Now, there are many reasons to be worried about the health care act, especially if the system it puts in place proves unmanageable and sours the public further on assertive government action when needed.
But, it said, "The two months following the atrocity in Tunisia, and then Turkey joining the coalition against Isis, together with ensuing events, have had a considerable impact on the market which have sadly proved unmanageable.
With 30 ministers and at least 7 deputy ministers, the cabinet has grown into the largest in Israel's history, prompting charges that it will prove unmanageable and constitute a waste of public funds during a recession.
The year 1997 was when fashion halted the self-destructive course that began two decades ago as designers encouraged women to discard the rules and do their own thing, a credo that proved unmanageable for most.
First there was the salutary shock, in 1994, of Mr Berlusconi having invented his party out of virtually nothing and winning a general election only a few months later; no matter that his coalition proved unmanageable and that he was out within eight months.
Their former 20-acre historic Gothic Abbey had proved unmanageable and uneconomical.
No doubt this plan would have proved unmanageable even if Boethius had not been executed in his mid-forties.
