Parents who love them and have presided over the complete botching of their lives.

The man who did the botching, Donald Rumsfeld, is still the secretary of defense.

But hasty planning, and inadequate knowledge of the local geography, led to a botching of the disposal job.

He remembered the floggings which, when he was a student, had followed the botching of a papyrus.

The latter protested about what he called the "botching" of French operetta scores when adapted for the English stage.

In recent years, Adelman and his friends Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz fell out over his criticisms of the botching of the Iraq War.

Hillary's botching of the job drove her back to hosting afternoon tea for the remainder of Bill Clinton's administration and scotched any significant progress on health care for a generation.

Outraged at the botching of Mr. Jama's removal, a federal judge in Minneapolis, John R. Tunheim, ordered last month that he be released by May 23.

His still-secret 800-page, four-volume report on the Wen Ho Lee investigation does not absolve the wrongdoer but, I am told, excoriates Reno Justice's obfuscatory procedures and the F.B.I.'s botching of the case.

The missed cues, the botching of business, the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter, unearthly yet real of Mary Deare.

In 1946, 'This drawing is grave attempt to give life and existence to what until today had never been accepted in art, the botching of the subjectile, the piteous awkwardness of forms crumbling around an idea after having for so many eternities labored to join it.

His love of mangled language, which prompted him to write "Fractured English," may have arisen from the frequent botching of his own name, which, he once said, appeared in hundreds of mutations, among them Gordon Mockowitz, Morton Muckeridge and Gordon Muskrotch.

"Save and Protect" recalls most of the crucial events of Emma's decline and fall: her disenchantment with her husband, the affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband's botching of the operation on the stableboy's clubfoot.

And so far, some of them say, the big companies have botched it.

I botched the job the first time, and you've been waiting for me to try again.

I'm one of only three customers, and they still botched the order.

Six of those turned out to be simply botched operations.

He was going to finish the job his son had botched all those years ago.

Of course, running one as a student is also a good way to see ways that it can be botched.

He had tried running things twice before, and botched it both times.

They even scored on a play that was almost botched.

They'd botched the job, but he might as well finish it.

Otherwise he does not know the field problems and will botch things for you.

At 14, he even botched his first meeting with Sinatra.

I'll admit that I botched it the first few times.

Though never a driver, he took the job - and botched it.

That hospital botched up his operation, and had to do it again.

She botched the job, but plans to finish it next year.

In dramatic terms, the final crisis of the play is botched.

But you see, except for the store which was all set anyway, everything he ever did got botched up.

Neither man was of a mind to do a rushed, botched job.

She had to get control of her nerves or she'd botch everything.

But they botched their chances and remained two games out.

He played interesting games but botched them on the way to victories.

The operation had been botched, and she could barely walk.

But many Americans thought the framers had botched the job.

They'd botched the job, or wouldn't have had the chance to tell his story.

If he were forced to use either of them, it would mean he'd botched the whole setup.

That hospital botched up his operation, and had to do it again.

But you see, except for the store which was all set anyway, everything he ever did got botched up.

The owners are going to botch up their search for a commissioner.

The older one, the guy who botched up those immortality experiments?

Hard to say though, something might have botched up the comm dishes.

No sense botching up your system just because we're still getting organized, is there?"

Botching up that position fix simply makes no sense.

I guess maybe what the refugees originally botched up didn't last.

I might botch up and get my knee hurt.

If you're going to botch up an address, at least send something unusual enough to be remembered by the employees who open them.

And now there was tampering, A race that wanted to change everything, botch up the future so they could take charge of it.

The same walls and ceiling that botched up the acoustics did nothing at all for ventilation.

After all, how often does a job get botched up as thoroughly as the Vampires had done?

We were not allowed to go as we would have botched up the negotiations."

He said, 'It could just be that our friends have botched up their case even before it comes to trial.'

Today is too special to botch up.

My response is, "Not after the way they botched up Raise the Titanic!"

It is only when they botch up their stunts do they actually impress the judges.

'They call that botched up bit of hand-sewing a golem?

Three Mile Island and what happened afterward is a textbook example of how to botch up everything."

"You start spending time, and you're going to get to the point that eventually you're going to learn how to fix what you've botched up."

And, most disturbing to him, Olde regularly botched up his monthly disbursement checks.

I'm sorry if I'm botching up the job but this is the first time I've tried it."

Then best botch up an explanation.

It was all botched up, you know."