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The logistical details of dispersal have also been a bit of a shambles.
When he took office last summer, the region was in a shambles after years of mismanagement by his dictatorial predecessor.
And he admits their first training session together was a shambles.
Various things went wrong to produce the current financial shambles.
Forgot to mention, however, the economy is in shambles.
The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened.
He added that the higher-education system was in a shambles because of frequent monetary reductions.
Abandoned and in shambles, the castle was still beloved by urban explorers, many of whom lived in the small towns nearby.
Once the subsidies ended this year, the economy is in shambles and people have started protesting.
Any deviation from these conditions will leave your casino in a shambles.
The main political parties are milking the shambles for all they can.
Since his stroke, he was always in shambles, tilted.
It's a bit of a shambles to navigate, but no matter, hardly anyone stands up.
Addicted people may go on denying their alcohol and other drug problems, even when their lives are in shambles.
As if the world economy isn't in shambles as it is currently, flooding the market with diamonds can't help matters too much.
The economy already in a shambles, lie completely disordered and the losses are unsustainable.
In much of the nation the public education system is in shambles.
Our nation's property insurance system is in shambles.
When he emerged from the shelter, he found his house in shambles with the roof ripped off.
The string of floating barge casinos crucial to the coastal economy were a shambles.
Even the guardhouse on the southeast corner, where visitors enter, was in shambles.
It was a shambles and had been evacuated only hours before.
If her campaign was in shambles, it was her job to fix it or take the consequences.
Go while people remember your achievements, not when they blame you for the shambles you leave behind.
Good families are left in shambles because of the selfish, sociopathic behavior of others.
Even with judicial blessing, the conduct of executions in this country is a shambles.
He said that the people are demoralized by an economy in shambles.

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