(1) First, Britain's rail network is bulging at the seams: the country needs new capacity and the cost of bodged piecemeal enlargements to the existing network are cruelly expensive and yield minimal benefits compared to HS2, as former transport minister Lord Adonis argues.
(2) The managing editor of the Sun, Richard Caseby, said the government-sponsored charter, was draconian and "bodged together" while Cameron was asleep.
(3) She added: "The thought of Homebase bodging up and running Habitat makes me want to weep … " Duddy said he did not know whether the deal had the blessing of Conran but said the design team was in contact with the founder recently and those conversations had been positive.
(4) Photograph: Sarah Lee Sitting in a cafe across the road from the vibrant hoardings of the new-look Heygate, a former resident of the estate is furious about the missed opportunity in what he sees as the borough’s bodged negotiations over the development deal.
(5) The fruits of that included the demise of Avon county council in 1996, which the West of England combined authority is a bodged attempt at recreating.
(6) They’ll still have bodging politicians in charge.
(7) This is the traditional clever bodging of British central government.
(8) I think many, if not all, socialists of my stamp felt the invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq as colossal shocks that exposed how bodged-up our belief systems really were.
(9) Such talk is laughably anachronistic, of course, but powerful symbols often are – and it hurts Brown more, for instance, than £10bn of bodged IT contracts ever could.
Dodged
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Dodge
Example Sentences:
(1) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.
(2) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(3) Eric King, deputy director of PI, said: "More than a year after Snowden, the British government continues to dodge the question of just how integrated the operations of GCHQ and NSA truly are.
(4) End diastolic and systolic volume and ejection fractions were calculated by two methods (Ahlberg and Dodge).
(5) The effects of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on spatial memory first reported by Shavalia, Dodge, and Beatty (1981, Behavioral and Neural Biology, 31, 261-273) were systematically replicated in two experiments.
(6) But another worry, says Dodge, is that the price of Iraq's freedom will turn out to be an authoritarian political system.
(7) We have so much work to do to bridge the gulf and, at the moment, the sector finds it easier to dodge the issue than tackle it head on."
(8) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(9) The increase in electricity prices over the past 12 months is the lowest since September 2007, and taking away the fourth quarter, affected by the introduction of the carbon price, the trend is clearly towards lower rises in the future: The Liberal party, by virtue of being in opposition from 2007 to 2013, dodged the big bullet of electricity prices.
(10) The candidate was crushed with just 4.9% of the vote and was forced to dodge Sydney Leathers, a woman who said she had received sexual messages from him, while giving his concession speech.
(11) We all have plenty to fear | Jonathan Freedland Read more On Tuesday, the Times headlined its editorial about the election “Tough Choice”, as if the decision between a woman who used the wrong email server and a racist, sexist, tax-dodging bully wasn’t, in fact, the easiest choice in the world.
(12) "But we will not tolerate abuse of the system by people trying to dodge their tax obligations."
(13) You have somebody that’s gonna run this country right, and I would be willing to bet – because I think this is one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities in the world – and you have a great leader now, you have a great president, you have a tough president.” He had dodged and also praised his host.
(14) David Cameron has dodged an imminent revolt by 60 Tory backbenchers over the lifting of border controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, as the government revealed that the immigration bill would be delayed until the new year.
(15) On saying this, I don’t close my eyes to the endemic corruption and tax-dodging in Greece (nor indeed, does the outsiders’ movement Syriza, which came to power campaigning against just these vices).
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) This guy can buy silence, but that isn't offered to most people who are caught fare dodging."
(18) "Tax dodging is not easily defeated, so companies should be required to report additional information like sales volumes, assets and profits to put their payments into context.
(19) Aims In 2013 our campaign achieved commitments from the UK government at the G8 for action on tax dodging .
(20) Full-blooded hypothecation would in theory dodge some of these weaknesses.