Sentence examples for stovepipes from inspiring English sources

And the sheer number of agencies may be less of a problem than the fact that most of them act as vertical "stovepipes"—an insane idea for a community that is supposed to be collecting information.

I found the city of Kars much as Pamuk described: "the old decrepit Russian buildings with stovepipes sticking out of every window, the thousand-year-old Armenian church towering over the wood depots and electric generators".

The squatters had used tin trash burners, running the stovepipes through the windows, but all that had been thrown out.

They created stovepipes to get the information they wanted directly to the top leadership.

We saw the canvas-covered true labelled "Tank," & we saw the soldiers earnestly pretending to load shells into stovepipes & even flinching from the imaginary report.

"That is troubling to me that this many years after the attacks on our country in 2001, that we still seem to have stovepipes that prevent information from being shared effectively, not only among agencies but also within the same agency, in one case".

They include the use of heroic front-line troops with out-of-touch superiors; rotating decision-makers too often; narrow "stovepipe" thinking; and the failure to imagine that everything could go wrong at once.Complex systems, jerry-riggedFor now, the risk is that the interim report does not get the attention it deserves.

PERCHED on top of a fancy science building on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico is a humble stovepipe that collects air samples.

The German counterpart of the bazooka was a light 88-millimetre rocket launcher known as Panzerschreck ("Tank Terror") or Ofenrohr ("Stovepipe").

Miss Wooldridge exchanges her riverbed extravaganza for a deep purple hunting dress with a stovepipe black topper, to ensure she retains the whip hand.

The damper in a stovepipe or a warm-air heating system is of this type, which is also used in the intake passage to carburetors on gasoline engines.