jerry-built


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of inferior workmanship and materials

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Another small story told of a bid to end jerry-built housing.
Who wants to have boring old Liverpool culture -with its 800 years of history - when you can style yourself after a jerry-built desert theme p a rk?
This was the town that had practically invented mechanisation, had packed its factories with unskilled workers and its streets with jerry-built terraces.
However, despite having a packaging that is bound to attract eyeballs, the book comes as nothing but a jerry-built attempt of explaining things which have been taught by various management gurus of the previous era.
Eight years after overthrowing the monarchy in 1969, Gadhafi instituted the Jamahiriya, or "state of the masses" -- a jerry-built state that is very much a personal creation largely dependent on his role.
Arnold Buchman's April 4 letter suggesting that the fault lies with our jerry-built tax code is essentially correct, but he does not point out that one of the main reasons for many of the tax code problems lies with the excessive influence of large corporations in our politics, and therefore in designing our tax code.
The streets of Conakry, a city of jerry-built metal shacks and roadside food stalls, were busy with shoppers, traffic and boys playing football on Saturday, with campaigning over.
Beneath these jerry-built houses lie tendon and rock and the spine of
And yet now we are obliged to be bored to death as the Lib Dems shove their pet projects down our throats - the price we all pay for having Clegg and his colleagues prop up Cameron's jerry-built Government.
Torrie has picked itself up, dusted itself down and started all over again, getting rid of the jerry-built hotels and apartments and replacing them with smart places to stay.
But rationality has nothing to do with the jerry-built nomination process that has evolved over the past 30-plus years, a series of ad hoc events that now threatens to mutate into a monstrosity.
The Supreme Court ruled last year on the jerry-built system of military tribunals that the Bush Administration established to try the Guantanamo detainees, finding it illegal.
A soldier and press relations officer in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, Palmer disdained the jerry-built histories and personal narratives that flooded the market as soon as war-time censorship ended.
As hundreds of innocent men sit in prison, why is the Bush administration still fighting the idea that American values embrace the right to a fair trial and that a jerry-built military commission represents no such thing?