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Of course, the initial TARP plan was proposed by a Republican president, maladministered by Republican appointees, and supported by the Republican nominee for the presidency.

Matthew Yglesias » The Ever-Bolder GOP 2009

Of course, the initial TARP plan was proposed by a Republican president, maladministered by Republican appointees, and supported by the Republican nominee for the presidency.

Matthew Yglesias » The Ever-Bolder GOP 2009

We thought that it was maladministered and that the very estimable and reverend gentleman who held the office of warden was somewhat too highly paid for duties which were somewhat too easily performed.

Barchester Towers 2004

Hofmeyr said the unit did not suspecting corruption at present because the money could have been maladministered, or in some instances just unaccounted for because of poor financial records.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Now, there was a dissent, and it says that -- in the dissent, it says that this, in fact, could be capricious, that this, in fact, could be a school policy that is maladministered, but the decision by a 5-4 ruling is that school boards will be allowed to put in policies that will allow drug testing for all extracurricular activities.

CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2002 2002

The Mail and Guardian earlier in the month published claims that Motshekga had, among other things, fraudulently maladministered international donor funds in the past.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

In a media statement titled "The Bounty Hunters", Nel said today the Eastern Cape had the honour of being the most corrupt, most maladministered and having the most unemployment in the country.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

The motion came after DP MPs called for Mr Bartlett's resignation alleging the Transport Department had been maladministered and mismanaged during the NP's Natal leader tenure as minister of that department.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Meanwhile the North African society on which the rebels lived, and which, with their various recruits -- Moors, escaped slaves, criminals -- they maladministered and half ruined, was and remained Roman.

Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911

It is true that Persia is a maladministered country, that there is corruption, that there is intrigue, and so forth, but is there any other country, may I ask, where to a greater or smaller extent the same accusation could not be made?

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894