That search for value has made hotel management a less hit-or-miss proposition.

UNTIL this year, filling a natural gas car was a hit-or-miss proposition.

As a result, hiring someone to help around the house is usually a hit-or-miss proposition.

Sometimes, finding methods that will deter animals and insects is a hit-or-miss proposition.

Filming students with behavioral problems, for instance, is a hit-or-miss proposition; some days, the students are simply too off-the-wall to focus on the task.

The males produce huge quantities of pollen because fertilization is literally a hit-or-miss proposition.

Side roads tended to have potholes, and road signs were a hit-or-miss proposition.

She said that since the blocking lists maintained by the companies were generally considered trade secrets, determining what was blocked became a cumbersome, hit-or-miss proposition.

Modernist and contemporary design, on the other hand - much of which was intended for production in quantity - was more of a hit-or-miss proposition.

Even so, production is a hit-or-miss proposition, with widely varying harvests from vintage to vintage.