cobble together

The Iraqi military and police forces the U. S. is trying to cobble together will mostly prove unreliable, unwarlike and treacherous.

But the Congress Party is taking no chances, and is busy trying to cobble together parliamentary support to ensure its survival.

To cobble together a synthetic biome, the half-dozen Bio2 ecologists sat down at a table together and played this ultimate jigsaw puzzle.

We love the "highly effective" makeshift silencers which movie characters cobble together on the spur of the moment.

Unemployment, or the fear of it, restrains many Americans from spending and is forcing them to cobble together their own safety net.

Mr Tsang can usually rely on an alliance of pro- business and pro- Beijing legislators to cobble together the majorities he needs .

The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.

Analysts expect Japan to cobble together a workable energy grid in the next few weeks.

Political parties run on expediency, not ideology, which makes it possible to cobble together all manner of oddball coalitions.

What he lacked were the circuits that cobble together a clear, conscious picture.

Also, the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted to require states to cobble together majority-black voting districts wherever possible.

So it will be extraordinarily hard for the DPJ to cobble together enough support to pass legislation.

So if Labour could cobble together a coalition, it could yet pull off a surprise.

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He has worked with Democrats before, not least to cobble together a bail-out of the financial sector last year.

They don't just go out and cobble together airplanes and bridges.

that the distribution of Tory votes makes it harder for them to cobble together a majority;