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Thus, this is an ad hoc solution - good in practice but theoretically weak.
Ad-hoc councils of town elders slowly evolved into militias.
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This ad hoc tribunal of the National Academy is now in session.
Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo. So little time, so much to know.
Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo, so little time, so much to know.
Hoc est enim Corpus meum.
Hoc loco et hic et hic.
I suggest we start on Valo IIl, where an ad hoc leader named Jaz Holza lives.
This is an ad hoc operation set up specifically for your mission.
We could put together an ad hoc SETI program.
I think that we should be checking out employee lockers, and not entertaining the idea that ad hoc surgery was performed here.
Forgive me, it is like the imposing of ad hoc law.
I'm Hagen, hoc.
What's hoc?
As far as we know, Loretta, those transformers are safe but like I said, I'll propose an ad hoc study.
Some ad hoc militias have joined forces and they're getting very aggressive in one of the suburbs.
Hoc corpus Christi est.
I suggest we start on Valo III, where an ad hoc leader named Jaz Holza lives.
My guess is a rock, a pipe, something ad hoc.
Hoc's right. It's a sleeping giant.
As far as we know, those transformers are perfectly safe. but I'll propose an ad-hoc study.
A little ad hoc surgery?
Sheldon, would you be prepared, on a non-precedential basis, to create an emergency ad hoc Slurpie-Icee equivalency?
Yeah, ad hoc.
Ad hoc.
Ad fucking hoc.
And ad hoc.
After considering the testimonial and documentary evidence, this ad-hoc committee in the matter of Kayla McGinley has reached a decision.
We're more ad hoc.
I am deputy director of Parks and Recreation and chairwoman of the departmental ad hoc subcommittee for Pit Beautification, Leslie Knope.
What do you say. HOC, Norad, your old buddy's at the Department of Defense.
The investigation necessitated ad hoc arrangements.
Super hoc expavit cor meum et emotum est de loco suo.
Unless one of your index cards actually predicted the guy was gonna punch his wife, everything you're saying is post hoc rationalization.
It's an ad hoc network.
That seems rather ad hoc.
News and current affairs
Both past and present have been burdened by the ad hoc nature of relations among the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
Though some routine practices have emerged as international capital markets have grown, they remain ad hoc.
For the most part, world leaders preferred not to be bothered with North Korea, and so reacted in an ad hoc way whenever it created a security problem.
Lula claimed that this ad hoc approach gave Brazil a degree of flexibility lacking in other countries; but it was not cost-free, as he claimed, and the results did not endure.
Insofar as the goal of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula is concerned, the US has thus succeeded by sustaining an ad hoc concert of powers thus far with China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea.
Europe's relationship with Russia is too important for it to be developed in an ad hoc fashion through bilateral arrangements.
From an American perspective, flexible ad hoc coalitions of the willing have turned out to be more useful than the established NATO alliance, where Germany led the fight to refuse Turkey's request for support.
The East German voters were not only impressed by his decisive handling of severe floods in August, but also by his ad hoc neutralism with regard to Iraq in September.
If the rule of law is to be upheld, democratic self-defense must not appear ad hoc or arbitrary.
Ad hoc decisions have replaced a feasible and principled medium-term strategy.
Before the international community established the ICC, there were two ad hoc tribunals - one for the former Yugoslavia and one for Rwanda. Their work paved the way for the ICC.
But, with another display of reactive and ad hoc decision-making, we are no wiser about how Europe intends to resolve its dilemmas.
In short, Putin - who is no economic expert - makes all major economic policy decisions in Russia, delivering orders to top managers of state-owned enterprises and individual ministers in ad hoc, one-on-one meetings.
In other words, governments should establish bailout policies before the need to intervene arises, rather than make ad hoc decisions when financial firms get into trouble.
Quite simply, the ad hoc policymaking that directed interventions in the Balkans, Somalia, southwest Asia, and the Middle East in the past two decades will not suffice in this new era of limitations.
But if Western experience is any guide, ad hoc responses to high rates of work accidents won't reduce the risks to Chinese workers.
If this occurs in Iraq, it may provide some post hoc legitimization for the war.
Cooperation would also need to comprise much more than mere joint policy development, and should involve the practical pursuit of mutually beneficial, smaller-scale ad hoc projects.
To that extent, it provides exactly what the world needs now: an approach that removes the need to rely on the ad hoc and slow-moving approach of ratings agencies and the noisy and volatile signals coming from markets.
The wake-up call for most NGOs came after the Rwandan genocide, when hundreds of small organizations tried to set up ad hoc operations in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.
But perhaps they will prefer bilateral, ad hoc relations that allow them to extract greater advantage in their transactions with individual countries.
On the other hand, there is limited enthusiasm for establishing yet another ad hoc international tribunal - in addition to those now at work for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda - because of the costs.
Yet their priorities are often set in an ad hoc way with little regard for achieving the largest welfare gains possible.