The Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the city last summer in a haphazard effort to relieve the pressure on the besieged Government garrison inside the fort.

Gomek already controlled the economy of the Esliph, and their intrusion into human space had been no haphazard effort of a few starveling colonials.

This was not a haphazard effort.

The haphazard efforts towards conciliation in Cambodia culminated in the Paris Agreements in 1991, in which United Nations-sponsored free and fair elections were scheduled for 1993.

The ball bounced around in the corner and Orsulak struggled to field it, his haphazard effort earning him an error and Daulton second base.

On the other hand, they're making a very haphazard effort to do so.

Moreover, there was never a systematic focus on one type of target (such as airbases, radar stations, or aircraft factories); consequently, the already haphazard effort was further diluted.

Critics contend that such arcades have created a wide loophole in the already haphazard effort to keep children from access to games designed for adults.

The resulting book has less in common with "Citizen Kane" than with one of Welles's later, haphazard efforts - "The Stranger," perhaps, or even that self-conscious disaster, "Mr. Arkadin."

For Russia, the deal represents a big step in what has been until now a haphazard effort to bring into private ownership some of the crown jewels of nationalized business.