Sentence examples for was ill designed from inspiring English sources

I wrote about the fact that I thought public school was ill designed to reform itself because it reforms on incrementalism.

But empires are ill designed for promoting change; their preoccupation is to hold together, an imperative which tends to breed authoritarianism.

The I.M.F. said Friday in its annual report on the American economy that spending cuts by the United States government that kicked in March 1 were "ill designed" and slowed the economy.

The directive's wording is "ill designed for pharmaceuticals" he says.

The mechanisms that were ill designed can make an application unreliable and difficult to understand, maintain and reuse in the presence of faults.

This chapter explains that critical wine assessment is ill designed for the dining room, because of distractions of conversation and the interference of food flavors; the concentration involved in wine analysis can greatly enhance appreciation.

Winston Churchill once quipped that golf clubs were "singularly ill designed" for the purpose of hitting a small ball into an even smaller hole.

Most fundamentally, the design of the euro was ill conceived.

"It was ill mannered".

My father was ill.

His mother was ill.