| In short, the vertebrate eye is a masterpiece not of design, but of jury-rigged compensations for a fundamentally defective architecture. |
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| As a domain of research, the de facto mental health system bristles with unsettled questions, conflicting interests, and jury-rigged resolutions. |
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| Dwarfed by the boat's jury-rigged splashboard, Lee had pushed to a handy boat length lead at the finish and will qualify for the final. |
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| Darwin understood that the most convincing evidence for evolution was in the imperfection of nature and the jury-rigged structure of adaptation. |
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| Reynolds, in particular, makes use of this jury-rigged stringer system to alert his readers to articles that would otherwise go unnoticed. |
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| You look at them anatomically, and they're a hodgepodge of little quirks and jury-rigged adaptations that work. |
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| In real life, of course, a brigantine's crew would have either fixed or jury-rigged a rudder at sea or simply steered the ship with her sails. |
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| The machinery consists of jury-rigged turntables that mechanically drive drumsticks to beat against paint cans, gourds and other noise-making objects. |
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| At once monumental and fragile, it brought to mind the jury-rigged shacks constructed from cast-off materials found in every township or slum area. |
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| The mines were intended as anti-personnel devices, jury-rigged claymores. |
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| It was partly designed by Mr. Bolshov, the physicist who jury-rigged the barrier under Chernobyl. |
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| There, they jury-rigged a connection that carried electricity from a nearby substation to the plant. |
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| Others have involved elaborate combinations of custom-made software and jury-rigged cables and connectors. |
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| Would you be smiling if you were riding in a jury-rigged truck that had an emergency evacuation button and a giant tank of highly flammable hydrogen fuel behind the seat? |
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| It's a splay that forever defies rationalization, one jury-rigged from the technologies of three centuries. |
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| Each inhabited floor has electricity, jury-rigged to the grid, and water is transported up from the ground floor. |
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| Marc jury-rigged a repair by blocking the keel straight ahead and continued his route towards the finish line in La Forêt-Fouesnant. |
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| This is a jury-rigged, false consultation, which will do nothing for the health of our elective democracy. |
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| The engineers jury-rigged chill water, tying in fittings with a fire hose to restore air conditioning. |
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| Then Lea mentioned that the fridge was on the fritz, so I jury-rigged it again. |
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| For mooring deployment and recovery in the deeper portions of the Basin, the vessel was creatively jury-rigged with a bow-mounted A-frame. |
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| Because women have so little support in combining work and family, everyone is left to do it in her own ad-hoc, jury-rigged way. |
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| In eastern Libya, that often meant a Mad Max charge across the Sahara, armed to the teeth in jury-rigged pickups and sedans. |
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| That is why the Geithner plan is so complex and jury-rigged, to avoid the need for public requests for more money for banks. |
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| She was still scarred after her encounters with icebergs so proper repairs to her jury-rigged jib boom were a top priority. |
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| Dwarfed by her jury-rigged splashboard, Lee had pushed to a handy boat length lead at the finish and will qualify for the A-final over Denmark's Fie Udby Graugaard. |
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| On the whole, however, the sculpture seems like a graceful but jury-rigged Mobius strip in imminent danger of springing apart. |
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| Though specialty hardware was abundant in Souza's work, some elements were simply jury-rigged. |
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| Each work has a bunch of wire coming out from the bottom, suggesting all has been jury-rigged by a resourceful do-it-yourselfer, but also serving as a decorative flourish. |
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| At the top of that one, he stepped onto jury-rigged scaffolding planks. |
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| Many employees would have had occasion to not only observe the defects but work with the jury-rigged retaining mechanism, yet this equipment remained in service with this safety defect. |
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| The rudder could have been turned by means of a jury-rigged hand tiller from outside the lazarette, however this was not an option given the prevailing weather conditions. |
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| Mechanical problems were experienced in the engine-room and it was reported that the governor was repaired with a jury-rigged mechanism to prevent the main engine from over-speeding. |
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| Killers seems as if it's been overedited, underwritten, and, as a last resort, jury-rigged. |
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| The EOD team was using an entrenching tool jury-rigged to the front of their robot to dig and move objects. |
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| Each crew member should know the locations of seacocks, fire extinguishers, the emergency tiller, the medical kit, and how to operate the jury-rigged rudder. |
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| Because working spaces had to be kept clear, the only place where a woman could give birth aboard ship was behind a canvas shelter jury-rigged between cannons on the gun deck. |
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