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It's as if when confronted with a road riddled with potholes, you abandon what's there and build a new road instead.

And his critics also said the games had become over-commercialized and riddled with performance-enhancing drugs during his leadership.

His arm was hanging at a very strange angle; riddled with pain, he heard, as though from a distance, a good deal of whistling and shouting.

The chancery has been found to be riddled with sophisticated eavesdropping systems and has never been used.

The verdict inflamed the black community, which had long felt that the Los Angeles Police Department was riddled with racism.

Food is riddled with state intervention at every turn, from subsidies to millers for cheap bread to bribes for farmers to leave land fallow.

Complex machines like this are riddled with valves, filters, tubes, hoses, couplings, bearings, switches, gauges, meters and sensors.

The author used the technique of the sketch for we painted his lean, riddled with wrinkles and the appearance of a knot in one's heart.

Critics point out the market is still riddled with corporate governance abuses and other problems that helped to cause the last bear market.

Chrome is a barren wasteland at the moment - it's literally a browser and nothing more - whereas Firefox is riddled with add-ons and tools.

Riddled with corruption, it is common practice to pay for entry to university, for good grades and for the right to graduate.

One piece of good news is that Spain is so riddled with inefficiencies that there are relatively obvious reforms to be made.

It also knows that the Communist Party is perceived as being riddled with out-of-touch officials who care only about lining their pockets.

It may be essential for our kids' education, they concede, but it's riddled with online predators, seeking children to "groom" for abuse.

In a country riddled with corruption, one aspect of LvBS's mission is to inculcate Ukraine's managers with an ethical approach to business.

This led to businesses riddled with conflicts of interest and culture, controlled by warring groups of their own senior employees.

Food is a fundamental part of our traditional and social celebrations, and our current culture is riddled with debates over "diets" .

Environmentalists have been slow to realise that the fashionable eco-lifestyle is riddled with contradictions.

Once the dummies where riddled with arrows the Tang soldiers pulled them back up the walls and thus restored their supply of arrows.

The system is riddled with economic and political inefficiencies, and discontent is rising, Mr. Wang warned.

Yet some art world insiders suggest that, notwithstanding their philanthropic aims, new art prizes can be riddled with problems.

And of course these are all crucial issues, riddled with a mix of known facts and remarkable fears, prejudices, and misinformation.

One of the consulate vehicles, which police said was armored, was riddled with shrapnel.

It was a shame that the final game on the ultimate stage was riddled with so many free-kicks and stagnant play.

The terrain is ideal for a fugitive accustomed to deprivation, riddled with crags and caves and vertical rock walls.

More generally, Washington's recent attitude toward this process is riddled with contradictions and increasingly hard to comprehend.

Meanwhile, as many point out, the stock market is riddled with insider trading, market manipulation and government interference.

In a world riddled with safe, even chaste, vampire stories, author Justin Cronin's The Passage is restoring our fears of bloodsuckers.

China, poor and riddled with internal contradictions, is not there yet, by a very long way.

The new military rulers said that the previous government had been riddled with corruption.

But I've so often heard patients lament, "What a pity I had to wait for wisdom until now, till my body was riddled with cancer. "

Palm trees are everywhere but the country is riddled with oil pipelines, snaking down the roadside inches away from homes.

But the land reform program under Aquino, herself coming from the landed class, was riddled with loopholes.

The GSEs already had a checkered history, riddled with accounting irregularities.

Farming in emerging markets is riddled with market failures and does not react to price signals as other businesses do.

The door of the fort was riddled with bullets.

Recent experience suggests, as Kaufman foresaw, that they are opaque, unmanageable and riddled with conflicts of interest.

Never get wrinkles. Never look in the mirror and see a head riddled with gray hairs. Never look on as loved ones die of old age and illness.

NARRATOR: Thatcher's free-market message seemed to offer an escape from a Polish economy that was debt-ridden and riddled with shortages.

The existing standards are a shambles, a patchwork of inherited rules riddled with escape clauses.

But these were always very uneasy entities, riddled with contradictions and tensions, since national sentiment was weak.

Nearly all sectors of officialdom are riddled with graft, from neighborhood cops to district bureaucrats to state ministers.

On balance, the measure probably will do more harm than good. Ii is riddled with hazy provisions that will keep lawyers busy for years.

Already, well-armed security forces that pose as independent are riddled with militiamen who take direction from Shi'ite leaders.

America's tax system is riddled with exemptions, deductions and credits that feed an industry of advisers but sap economic energy.

But the wall isn't impenetrable. It's riddled with "interstellar tunnels" that lead from one pocket of less dense gas to another.

Tumor cells are typically riddled with genetic mistakes that disrupt key cell pathways, removing the brakes on cell division.

I was riddled with anxiety, but tried to put on a brave face to calm my shaken staff.

Layout scripts should be positively riddled with view helpers, or you're almost certainly not doing it right.

And how could a new government plan keep insurers honest, when our existing entitlement programs are riddled with waste, fraud and abuse?

Critics say the recipient data is incomplete and riddled with inconsistencies, especially in defining a full-time job.

Chinese banks were, until recently, riddled with huge levels of non-performing loans and endemic corruption.

Many of these economies are riddled with classic supply bottlenecks.

The young will be shoring up pensions systems which, as our special report this week explains, are riddled with problems.

Smaller banks are riddled with commercial-property loans, which are going bad at an alarming rate.

every technological endeavor is riddled with "solutions" that backfire.

But his book is riddled with uncertainties and anxieties about what this transformation might imply.

The "don't ask, don't tell" policy is riddled with inconsistencies, loopholes, unfairness and hypocrisy.

Other groups, too, are riddled with contradictions and competing objectives.

Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough: Kennedy's childhood was riddled with health issues.

After the rioters passed, every large display window in the elegant building was riddled with hundreds of bullet holes.

The sickle cell mutation apparently arose repeatedly in regions riddled with malaria in Africa and the Middle East.

Turkey is riddled with fault lines, as a quick glance at a map shows.

The door was riddled with shot.

Look at the upcoming slate of blockbusters and its riddled with comic book properties.

We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

The same spot of earth, riddled with moss, snail shells, ferns, oak leaves, produces this pale rainbow.

The past century in particular has been riddled with deep Chinese resistance to the essential logic of international interdependence.

The area is riddled with abandoned mines. Some are filled with water, hidden dangers to those in active mines nearby.

Like nature itself, the natural history of sea turtles is riddled with unanswered questions.

Traditional attempts at database-backed test tools are riddled with problems.

Today's cars are riddled with sensors providing critical data for performance and safety.

The second chakra holds old emotional scars from the past that are often riddled with pain, anger and fear.

The food system has existed for more than half a century and has become riddled with corruption and inefficiency.

a sweater riddled with moth holes; cliffs riddled with caves; the bullet-riddled target.

The mainland economy is riddled with corruption, even by African standards.

Pavers installed poorly will be uneven and riddled with weeds in a season.

Diversified financial conglomerates are a bad idea for customers because they are riddled with conflicts of interest.

But one can also imagine societies with narrow income disparities that are riddled with status conflict.

Time-travel theories are riddled with paradoxes that may make your brain explode.

Jarvis points out that the earliest books were riddled with errors.

It is a barren wasteland riddled with fire, and ash and dust. The very air you breathe is poisonous fume.

Are your car's bumpers riddled with scars from encounters with tight parking spaces?

Once we've got our card in hand, our behavior becomes riddled with irrationalities.

The Appalachian area is riddled with such caves and escarpments.

Can the figure really be that low? I had always assumed CVs were riddled with evasions, half-truths and downright whoppers.

Carlo Ancelotti's side also approach the game riddled with doubts over their form.

In the final stages they returned the draft contract riddled with amendments.

In any case, I have been riddled with guilt, which is causing Gorn-infested REM sleep. So, I'm here now to say I'm sorry.

The wall was riddled with bullet holes.

We're essentially living in a body riddled with cancer.

In the end, most of the floor was riddled with furrows, with light passing through them towards the earth's core.

It was either too tough, too doughy, or riddled with holes.

Sharif also promised a break with the practices of the government of Moammar Gadhafi, which is believed to be riddled with corruption.

Now she is riddled with arthritis and can't walk a step unsupported; she can barely lift a spoon to her mouth.

It is a stirring acquiescence, riddled with doubts, uncertain and ardent.

Pakistan's public culture is riddled with hardline views, from the school curriculum to the nightly political talk shows.

But it is based on assumptions rather than data and is riddled with logistical problems.

The local government was riddled with corruption.

The following day the garment was returned to him riddled with holes.

But four months into its Chinese expansion, the deal has been riddled with missteps.

If that were really hard to imagine the old, it will be riddled with problems.

Its public sector is bloated and riddled with corruption.

And they have been criticised for their "issuer pays" business model, which even agencies admit is riddled with conflicts of interest.

The old house is riddled with secret passageways.

It turned out our lives were riddled with coincidences.

Filipinos know that their police are poorly trained, equipped and paid, riddled with corruption and prone to unnecessary violence.

I had always assumed CVs were riddled with evasions, half-truths and downright whoppers.

But that can lead to programs riddled with vulnerabilities that can in turn lead to economic damages, lost data and lost productivity.

ITC-filed and -issued documents are riddled with blackouts , primarily for figures such as prices and volumes, which aren't wanted public.

People are not running around riddled with guilt.

Motherhood in Chad is riddled with illness.

So my life has long been riddled with problems, I will miss every time very sad.

Hewlett's book is riddled with signs of infection.

Her typing was slow and riddled with mistakes.

The three-judge panel said Mr. Katsav's version of events was "riddled with lies. " Mr.

The internet is riddled with steamy details of their sex lives, drug habits, political views and so on.

The whole house was riddled with spider webs.

This is not a relationship riddled with conflict.

Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of rascals.

The roof was riddled with bullet holes.

The report was riddled with errors.

The cliffs are riddled with caves.

the window on the first floor, and the attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaiens, were slowly losing their shape.

It is 16, 000 pages long and riddled with exemptions and loopholes, specific favors to special interests.

We cannot create world peace if we are riddled with inner conflict, hatred, doubt, or anger.

Shuiyanqijun Fine Man was, riddled with stab stick bed.

riddled with fire, and ash and dust.

Many Tories have long yearned to tame theBBC, which they think is riddled with liberal bias, and now scent theirmoment.

The car was riddled with bullets.

The government had hoped to raise that ratio by broadening its sales tax, which is riddled with exemptions.

There is a tendency in Pushme-Pullyu people that when they do make a decision they are then riddled with self-doubt afterwards.

Life was so riddled with rules and codes of behavior.

The tent's riddled with holes and the rain's coming in.

Zambia has 12, 500 miles of paved roads but they are riddled with potholes.

Have you seen the joists under the bathroom floor? They're riddled with fine holes.

Shadow perforated riddled with arrows, fire and flowers

Yet even if Cuadrilla's bounty is smaller than it hopes, the earth is riddled with shale rock;

Now she is riddled with arthritis and can't walk a step unsupported;

I have a game riddled with problems, not heart-ping Wang