ill-regulated

The Quinn family secretly built up to a 28 percent stake in Anglo shares using an ill-regulated financial instrument that hid the scale of their investment from other stockholders.

Sean Quinn, Once Ireland's Richest Man, Declares Bankruptcy With Debts Exceeding $2.7 Billion 2012

It was, as he said, a question of timing, and in an ill-regulated drawing-room game, with no croupier on the first night, and the bank paying out any old how, it was possible that they might have thought Cumming was still to be paid when in fact he'd already got his winnings and was letting 'em lie, with an additional fiver, for the next coup.

Watershed 2010

Yes, because so ill-regulated were British banks that their bad debts literally spread across the planet.

Brown's speech: live blog 2009

Yes, because so ill-regulated were British banks that their bad debts literally spread across the planet.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

The tension between these two things is, of course, at the heart of economic theory, and imbalance in economic reality arises when one or the other dominates for too long, producing an unhealthily controlled economy (scarcity-driven) or an unhealthily hyperactive and ill-regulated economy (based on the simple expansion of purchasing power).

Ethics, Economics and Global Justice 2009

French Revolution; ideas, fancies, melodies and enthusiasms fermented in his ill-regulated brain, and he poured forth verses in a violent and endless stream.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

But, my God, may this heart, I implore you, be no longer unworthy of you; make it like unto yourself; surround it with your thorns and close its entrance to all ill-regulated affections; set there your cross, make it feel its worth, make it willing to love it.

Archive 2008-08-03 de Brantigny........................ 2008

But, my God, may this heart, I implore you, be no longer unworthy of you; make it like unto yourself; surround it with your thorns and close its entrance to all ill-regulated affections; set there your cross, make it feel its worth, make it willing to love it.

Madame Elizabeth's Prayer to the Sacred Heart de Brantigny........................ 2008

French Revolution; ideas, fancies, melodies and enthusiasms fermented in his ill-regulated brain, and he poured forth verses in a violent and endless stream.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

He had all the air of having been originally a turnkey in some ill-regulated jail — a stout, short, bandy-legged man, with one eye, and a double portion of ferocity in that which remained.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008