Sentence examples for to ad hoc from inspiring English sources
"It needs central government strategy and direction – it can't be left to ad hoc action by councils".
Occasionally, we respond to ad hoc requests, such as help with finding space to host an event.
But it is also the difference between a preference for universal, treaty-based solutions as opposed to ad hoc ones like the Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative.
The end of the cold war and an explosion of ethnic brutality led to ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
From long-serving trustee to ad hoc cake baker, daily carer to weekend bucket shaker – we would love to hear what you have been up to.
This basically went back to ad hoc assumptions about wages and prices, with a bit of hand-waving about menu costs and bounded rationality.
Tells how in the absence of any duly constituted international authority, the international community is forced to resort to ad-hoc, semi-secret conclaves of financial people and others to deal with emergencies.
PCA provides a way to systematically add dimensionality to state-space parameterizations without resorting to ad-hoc progress variables.
He understood and foresaw the enormous potentiality of the method as a valid alternative to ad-hoc filtering.
The methodology helps to produce more efficient code in a shorter time compared to ad-hoc hand-coding approaches.
However, the adaptation of grid technology to ad-hoc networks is not straightforward, and exhibits numerous difficulties (resource discovery, security, power consumption, QoS, etc).
