It's riddled with gimmicks.

Her body was riddled with secondary tumors.

Mahaj Brown, 6, riddled with bullets, survives Philadelphia shooting

The surface of the Earth is absolutely riddled with holes, and here we are, right in the middle.

The participants noted that all the national constitutions are riddled with contradictions (Bhutan does not have a constitution).

He just took a lot, his little body was riddled with bullets, his grandmother Delores Melendez tells the station.

The Economist snidely referred to the results in quotation marks. Most quoted the OSCE's finding that the elections were riddled with serious shortcomings.

Jean Monnet, one of the godfathers of European unification, embodied this tendency a born bureaucrat who distrusted politicians. Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises.

The problems with state capitalism are primarily political, not economic. Any real world economy is riddled with market failures, so a benevolent and omnipotent government could sensibly intervene quite often.

The US government will not be able to object, given its own policies. The result will be an information environment riddled with vulnerabilities that could be exploited by even the most repressive or dangerous regimes.

Historical memory is not always quite as bad as this. But international politics and diplomacy are riddled with examples of bad and ill considered precedents being used to justify foreign policy decisions, invariably leading to catastrophe.

So, overall, statistics about happiness seem to be as accurate as many of the statistics regularly used by politicians, such as public opinion polls, poverty rates, or, for that matter, GDP growth all of which are riddled with imperfections.

The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one school or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.

Unfortunately, Bo s case is not the exception in China, but the rule. Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.

To cure the point particle pathologies, physicists invented modern field theories, with impressive names such as quantum electrodynamics. But these theories turned out to be as riddled with infinities as their grandparents, and elaborate ad hoc schemes were invented to deal with the new problems encountered.

Instead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak explained the thinking behind the recent hostilities in Gaza in typically existential terms. He fell back on a defining speech in Israeli history, General Moshe Dayan s eulogy for Roi Rothberg, a young soldier riddled by bullets from the Gaza Strip in 1956.

America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits with the financing of education at the losing end.

Dam construction is a leading historical example. In general, there is a tendency to overestimate the economic benefits of big infrastructure projects in countries riddled by poor governance and corruption, and to underestimate the long run social costs of having to repay loans whether or not promised revenues materialize.

By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers. In developing countries, poor quality regulation and implementation are formidable barriers to entrepreneurship and investment, according to a World Bank report.

Of course, no one should infer from the Libyan case that other SWFs across the board are riddled with corruption and conflicts of interest. The LIA has always been exceptional indeed, several indices that rank SWFs on transparency, accountability, and governance issues have traditionally given only Iran a lower ranking.

Crisis management is no way to sustain relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives. As long as China, Japan, and South Korea regard every encounter with one another as an opportunity to settle scores or gain some strategic advantage, brinkmanship will remain Northeast Asia s fate.

If one asks what interests the EU and its member states have in this crisis riddled region, the answer is, that certainly European energy and economic interests are at stake, as well as the vital interests of Europe s partners and allies (Israel in particular). But first and foremost on the list are Europe s.

Likewise, policymakers should be revamping incoherent and inconsistent tax structures that are riddled with unfair exemptions. And they should be pursuing immigration reform to overhaul a system that penalizes talent, encourages malfeasance, and, as illustrated by the thousands of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while trying to reach Europe, often leads to human tragedy.

So long as protection of intellectual property rights in China is woefully inadequate, the high speed rail market is likely to remain riddled with heated disputes. In China, the rush to apply for patents is sometimes said to be about saving face with ordinary Chinese, who might well object to buying technology from abroad when China s government so often lauds homegrown technology.

And therefore it will become intolerable what compassion is, is where it will become intolerable for us, totally intolerable that we sit here in comfort and in pleasure and enjoying the life of the mind or whatever it is, and there are people who are absolutely riddled with disease and they cannot have a bite of food and they have no place, or they're being brutalized by some terrible person and so forth.