(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.
Nobble
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "It sounds to me as if Spanish officials have succeeded in nobbling this report."
(2) Last October, I was scared that Robert Francis's report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal was being delayed four months because various individuals or bodies had nobbled him, and he would produce an emasculated whitewash (to mix a metaphor outrageously).
(3) SNP members – three out of seven committee members – were not ‘nobbled’ and we did not even have a pre-meeting to discuss how we would vote prior to committee,” he said.
(4) For all the arcana of the system - waiting around for hours, making sure you're walking the right direction through the right hallway - Thornberry knows this is a great time to nobble ministers.
(5) Confirmation of the cap came after Labour accused ministers of allowing the pension industry to "nobble" the reform plans.
(6) The message I’m trying to get across is that the UK government offer is a very fair offer, it’s a very constructive offer and we’re looking to get a deal.” SNP denies 'nobbling' Fiscal Commission's oversight powers Read more The minister said the UK government had wider concerns about the Scottish government’s approach to the fiscal framework and its decision to tie the hands of an external fiscal body likened to Scotland’s version of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which polices UK government budget decisions.
(7) Scolari thought it was a deliberate attempt to nobble his best player.
(8) William Hague nobbled it with court orders stopping the coroner and family hearing what evidence MI6 possessed.
(9) According to Khan, the Tory candidate, Zac Goldsmith MP, is a nice chap who has been nobbled by Lynton “Dog Whistle” Crosby , Cameron’s Australian campaign guru and the thinking man’s Jeremy Clarkson.
(10) Looking at the way the OBR hedges every statement about Brexit in its report, some may suspect Chote has been nobbled to say too little.
(11) That same year, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness began to investigate Capone's affairs, and in October 1931 – after Capone's efforts to nobble the jury had been defeated – he was sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion.
(12) Ciolos is said by EU diplomats to have been "nobbled" by the French, who oppose radical CAP reform.
(13) He then admitted he had never voted and encouraged others not to, in order to nobble the establishment.
(14) McClymont told the Guardian: "The government's botched consultation has allowed vested interests to nobble the tough action required to deliver for Britain's savers."
(15) They provide for the chairs and members of select committees to be directly elected by a secret ballot of MPs, taking the process out of the hands of the party whips which led to allegations of committees being nobbled by the government.
(16) "I seem to remember Iceland winning after nobbling Zaire's Pelé-like talisman, who played in bare feet.
(17) For all his charm, he finds himself ignored by an unfriendly Kremlin, who recently nobbled his attempts to become mayor in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.