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

The abduction appeared to be part of an ill-conceived effort to embarrass President Kovac.

This is why ill-conceived efforts by many states to force one set of standards to serve simultaneously as minimums and goals are putting the entire accountability movement at risk.

After the war, ill-conceived efforts were made to diversify.

She called the proposal to abolish the holiday an ill-conceived effort by a divisive government that has failed to address Russia's nagging social and economic inequities.

"It's an example of American Express shooting itself in the foot with another expensive, ill-conceived effort," he added.

The party tries for shore, but is forced back by a fierce gale - an ill-conceived effort that breaks the men and shatters Tyson's command.

The company has had its share of ill-conceived efforts.

No one in the house was certain she hadn't already compromised their location with her ill-conceived effort to buy her way to Europe months before.