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For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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For, if there is a failure of Europe, it is, at present, that of its ill-thought-out, ill-planned, and perhaps precipitous extension.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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This kind of criticism is so obviously biased and ill-thought-out it almost makes me wonder why I'm bothering to write this!
A New Hope for Interstellar Travel? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Third-order initiatives, such as the plan to sell-off the Forestry Commission, are launched into the public domain in an ill-thought-out way, come under attack from all sides when this government is doing quite enough that is unpopular to be going on with, and then have to be ditched.
The spotlight begins to shine on the coalition's flaws and faultlines | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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I purposely waited a couple of weeks to let the early responders poke holes in her reasoning the way good educators and the writers of tough Young Adult fiction always have to respond to this kind of ill-thought-out and self-serving "reporting."
Chris Crutcher: Young Adult Fiction: Let Teens Choose Chris Crutcher 2011
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He said: "Vince Cable and David Willetts need to explain why he has allowed an ill-thought-out, half-formed Tory election idea to divert precious funding away from genuine research."
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A combination of misplaced government urgency to do too much too soon, ill-thought-out projects and, above all, the scale of the cuts has weakened confidence in the big-society offer.
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His first, somewhat ill-thought-out attempt is to serenade her in glee club with the less than flattering Queen hit, "Fat Bottomed Girls."
Hulu.com: Glee's Valentine's Treat: "Silly Little Love Songs" Hulu.com 2011
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These new "super" injunctions arise as the result of the newly developed "privacy" law, which, to be fair was not introduced by the British parliament, but came from Europe - another hyperactive law-making body looking to impose their half-baked and ill-thought-out prejudices on everybody else.
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I purposely waited a couple of weeks to let the early responders poke holes in her reasoning the way good educators and the writers of tough Young Adult fiction always have to respond to this kind of ill-thought-out and self-serving "reporting."
Chris Crutcher: Young Adult Fiction: Let Teens Choose Chris Crutcher 2011
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