The G.A.O. said the Perot contract "was loosely written" and did not "adequately protect the interests of the Postal Service."

Similarly, a loosely written law that has the potential to violate Amendment rights will be declared unconstitutional if it restricts more than is necessary.

"Paul's immediate reaction was that the bill was too loosely written," said Bradley Keena, a spokesman for Mr. Weyrich.

"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is written loosely in iambic pentameter.

More recently, she has written two plays loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter."

The separate episodes, though, are loosely written and not very dramatically compelling in themselves, and the viewer is left with plenty of time to wonder what these people have to do with one another.

In her loosely written collection of essays, Holm explains that one divorce and several soured relationships made her shrug off Denzil Meyers's casual proposal.

I thought I might get a great deal of dialogue out of it, but I got only 15 loosely written pages--they saved me half a days work.

The slow and relaxed sounds are largely improvisations, as the tracks were loosely written or completely improvised on the spot.

Written loosely in a third-person perspective, the novel is set in an alternative history of our world, shortly after Charles Darwin has published On the Origin of Species.