Sentence examples for sloppy drafting from inspiring English sources

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Parliamentary wrangles and sloppy drafting prevented the government from shoving the bill through before the prosecution had summed up in the cases that are nearly over.

"Chandler's opinion is a must-read for all transactional lawyers — it is a warning that sloppy drafting and a failure to be forthright in your negotiating can come back to hurt you," Mr. Davidoff said.

This is what makes the debt crisis so intractable; it is very hard to escape from.UPDATE: It seems the credit card call was down to "sloppy drafting" of the original speech.

The bill also uses the word kill, not murder, or a phrase like "feloniously kill" or "intentionally kill". That's likely the result of sloppy drafting, but at least in theory, it could allow federal prosecutors to bring charges when someone unintentionally causes the death of a police officer, such as in a car accident, or due to some other act of negligence.

Much, much more likely, however, I'm wrong, and courtesy of harried revisions and sloppy drafting, we'll be stuck with these unpredictable and inequitable results for the foreseeable future.

"That was an illustration of a couple more general points -- sloppy drafting of policy language and actuarial calculations that did not reflect in all cases the actual policy language -- that then buttressed the finding of fact that Feedback was not operating like an insurance company". With that, Judge Holmes denied the Avrahamis' Motion for Reconsideration.

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Other times, one of us would be asked to rewrite somebody else's sloppy draft -- only to notice how he rose above us exponentially on the masthead.

After the latest decision, lamented by Brigitte Zypries, Germany's justice minister, as a "blow to the government in its fight against terrorism", he was yet again freed in Hamburg.In a sharp rebuke to the federal government for its sloppy legal drafting, the court froze the operation in Germany of the "European arrest warrant".

No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history's sloppy first draft.

But as a consequence, the sloppy first draft of Obamacare that passed in the Senate in December 2009 became law, without any of the legal proofreading that would have taken place in a normal House-Senate conference.

She shares her stories on lizpetrone.com and all over the Internet, and recently finished a sloppy first draft of her first book.

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