Sentence examples for unsatisfactory arrangements from inspiring English sources

As 80 per cent of mothers of 11- to 14-year-olds are in work, parents often either leave their children home alone or patch together informal and often unsatisfactory arrangements with family and friends.

As Tony Travers of the London School of Economics points out, by next April the government will already be a long way down this track through policies that will ring-fence school budgets from council control.There remains a third way: to carry on muddling through with the current unsatisfactory arrangements.

But it is an unsatisfactory arrangement.

In the past, Avenue Primary ran discrete citizenship lessons, but this proved an unsatisfactory arrangement.

"This morning we were disappointed to learn Livestrong is utilizing aggressive tactics designed to force us into an unsatisfactory arrangement.

The current system is based on a completely unsatisfactory arrangement that leaves important standards to protect health to be set by complex intergovernmental arrangements involving commonwealth, state and territory governments.

Facebook itself hates unfriending, for commercial reasons, and thus makes it easy to hide updates from tiresome contacts without their knowing – a deeply unsatisfactory arrangement that leaves you at constant risk of meeting someone face-to-face who assumes you must already know they've got engaged, or had another baby, or been dumped, or fired, or widowed.

With regard to the first mechanism, i.e., legislation and regulations, Strachan-Morris found that, "This was a wholly unsatisfactory arrangement because it was never clear which laws and regulations applied or who had jurisdiction over the contractors".

Managerial problems were reported in 19% of CMPs, with insufficient documentation in 7.7% and unsatisfactory financial arrangements in 2.7% of CMPs.

"The UK had allowed a very unsatisfactory extradition arrangement to develop which put the UK citizen at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to dealing with the US authorities," he said.

The study – which followed a similarly scathing report by the business, innovation and skills select committee – said the current funding arrangements were unsatisfactory for students, universities and the government.