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  • Like cocktail on its own, Molotov cocktail has entered Global English to refer to “a jerry-rigged bomb,” that mingling of gasoline and lit fuse that protestors in all corners of the world have been known to lob at riot police and over walls of embassy compounds.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Like cocktail on its own, Molotov cocktail has entered Global English to refer to “a jerry-rigged bomb,” that mingling of gasoline and lit fuse that protestors in all corners of the world have been known to lob at riot police and over walls of embassy compounds.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • What future historians will find most puzzling is why its supporters wanted this jerry-rigged set of tangled lines and ill-patched sails.

    Current Affairs 2010

  • Here, rather than just shutting the system down until the actual cause of the failure could be determine, the train kept rolling on, being jumpstarted and jerry-rigged by unsupervised and ineffective maintenance technicians.

    Spencer Aronfeld: FDOT Must Take a Hands-on Approach to Safety Spencer Aronfeld 2012

  • What future historians will find most puzzling is why its supporters wanted this jerry-rigged set of tangled lines and ill-patched sails.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • What future historians will find most puzzling is why its supporters wanted this jerry-rigged set of tangled lines and ill-patched sails.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • Here, rather than just shutting the system down until the actual cause of the failure could be determine, the train kept rolling on, being jumpstarted and jerry-rigged by unsupervised and ineffective maintenance technicians.

    Spencer Aronfeld: FDOT Must Take a Hands-on Approach to Safety Spencer Aronfeld 2012

  • Here, rather than just shutting the system down until the actual cause of the failure could be determine, the train kept rolling on, being jumpstarted and jerry-rigged by unsupervised and ineffective maintenance technicians.

    Spencer Aronfeld: FDOT Must Take a Hands-on Approach to Safety Spencer Aronfeld 2012

  • What future historians will find most puzzling is why its supporters wanted this jerry-rigged set of tangled lines and ill-patched sails.

    Not Europe Yet 2010

  • During the war in Iraq the military realized that it couldn't protect troops from a low-tech, but potent threat: jerry-rigged road side bombs.

    Defense Industry Faces Profit Losses As Golden Decade Ends 2011

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