cock-up

There has either been an administrative cock-up, or the Telegraph's owner was in generous mood at the Tory party conference.

Media Monkey's Diary 2011

An understandable gambit, incidentally, as there'd been an administrative cock-up at the National Arbitration Tribunal, which had incorrectly referred the whole thing to be dealt with by the coal industry's own conciliation machinery.

Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray 2011

Of all the scenarios in cricket, none is more ripe for cock-up than running between the wickets, and none with more comedic potential than when it involves someone running on behalf of an injured batsman or for the ultimate rib-tickler, both batsmen.

Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey 2011

I raised these concerns in a conversation with Dean Bruce Smith on November 7, the day after the final report was released, a meeting I entered armed with a faculty member's innate suspicion of administrators, which suspicion is especially keen during moments of administrative cock-up.

Feisal G. Mohamed: Inside The U Of I Law School's Book-Cooking Scandal Feisal G. Mohamed 2011

I like how you smeared a deliberate and desperate act of courage and foresight as some sort of a policy cock-up.

Matthew Yglesias » Flashback: 1993 2009

But cock-up rather than conspiracy seems the likeliest explanation in the absence of any smoking gun.

Osama bin Laden: dead, but still a spectre for the world 2011

Attention has been drawn to a slight cock-up in the bilingual nature of Welsh Labour's campaign website for the European elections.

Welsh political websites, bilingualism and Europe. 2009

After all the time and energy Alex has put into wooing the Yanks, it's hard to see this decision as anything other than a catastrophic cock-up.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Attention has been drawn to a slight cock-up in the bilingual nature of Welsh Labour's campaign website for the European elections.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

I raised these concerns in a conversation with Dean Bruce Smith on November 7, the day after the final report was released, a meeting I entered armed with a faculty member's innate suspicion of administrators, which suspicion is especially keen during moments of administrative cock-up.

Feisal G. Mohamed: Inside The U Of I Law School's Book-Cooking Scandal Feisal G. Mohamed 2011