What little there is will likely be used to pay for the administration's ill-conceived and hasty effort to build a missile shield.

He made hasty efforts to remedy the deficiencies in equipment.

Anthony Boucher dismissed the novel as a "hasty and disappointing" effort.

With her hasty effort, she tears it.

They were at a loss to understand Rhodan's hasty but nonetheless most precise efforts.

Despite scientists' hasty efforts to document the vast damage and record the recovery, the fires' full impact will not be known for many years.

The 'hybrid' looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites.

"Well, Father," Mom said in a hasty effort at distraction, "and how do you like our little town by now?"

But whether this hasty and poorly coordinated effort will succeed in the long term is hard to judge.

Dust raised by hasty efforts at cleaning still hung visible before the small, high windows in the prison-like walls.