Unlike people in the highly structured Federal witness protection program, those who agree to testify in local cases enter into a much more haphazard system.

Because of Westchester's haphazard system of numbering houses, difficulties can arise.

In a sense, city officials here are trying to assert more control over a haphazard and informal system that had developed during the past two decades.

Again, that is not a haphazard system, but one which our legislation has recognised for many years under successive Governments.

Part of the problem may be the White House's haphazard system for email archiving.

As a result, both parties are considering drastic changes to the haphazard primary system.

By the 1850s new formed local banks became a source of credit, replacing the haphazard system of credit from local merchants.

It is a haphazard system - further complicated by typesetting errors and editing that too often fails to eliminate confusion.

That said, "Even informal child care can be regular and consistent rather than a catch-as-catch-can, haphazard system of care," she says.

The Mayor is relying on attrition, a haphazard system.