The challenge lies in cobbling together the money to replace damaged books at seven branches in New Orleans and six in Jefferson Parish.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 2006] Reference

They have begun informally exploring the idea of cobbling together a governing coalition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Out of that came the idea of cobbling together a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference

He can make a decent living there, cobbling, I know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

Constitution of the United States and his cobbling accounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Regeneration is not a scheme of moral tinkering and ethical cobbling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889] Reference

And, you know, we have a long history of cobbling together coalitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2009] Reference

Well, some people are cobbling together a pretty good living these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2009] Reference

All of a sudden, you can't see the little elves cobbling it together anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ad Game] Reference

And they're going to have a hard time cobbling this together and making sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2008] Reference

One critic saw him as "" violently impressed by two things: spinach and cobbling. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Of Apples] Reference

Plus, it's more than just cobbling it together, your "World at Work" at the cobblers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2009] Reference

The site lets users build their own "views" by cobbling together content from other pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving New Meaning To 'Designer' Shoes] Reference

He had work to finish in the cobbling line; and besides he had no fancy for any bed but his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

I mean I ` m just putting -- I ` m cobbling together facts that -- you know, that are out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2009] Reference

She could not imagine anyone cobbling together something that intricate in an apartment bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Command Decision]

I mean, I ` m just putting -- I ` m cobbling together facts that -- you know, that are out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2009] Reference

To win Telecom Italia, Olivetti is cobbling together the first euro-denominated takeover package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commence Firing!] Reference

And our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has been working and watching this cobbling progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2002] Reference

I ` ve spent the last two years cobbling this movie back together, putting the pieces back together.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 27, 2008] Reference

It is a peculiarity of human nature that people neglect little bills -- bar bills, cobbling bills, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

But even his aides admit that cobbling together the 270 electoral votes to win will be an uphill battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008] Reference

Since then, he has been cobbling together a business that has catapulted him into Wall Street's upper echelon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barclays Will Tap Diamond as CEO] Reference

The question illuminates the different challenges the candidates face in cobbling together 270 electoral votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [How No. 1s Pick No. 2s] Reference

Chase, work at cobbling, making ditches and cultivating the soil, and also do something with carpenter's tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 08, August, 1889] Reference

There was once a cobbler who one day was so tired of cobbling that he said: "Now I will go and seek my fortune.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Popular Tales] Reference

"And so the boys will never know?" going back to his solitary cobbling, for they were making a shoemaker of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

And maybe it was a way of cobbling together a kind of alliance of these groups and finding a way to make that work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2009] Reference

She stuck the large needle with which she had been awkwardly cobbling a tear in her skirt, into the seat of a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference

And they are taking sentences and phrases out of context and cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2009] Reference

'Shall we, too, be as dogs cobbling shoes, or as the heathen who sell rat-traps, peddle milk-pails, and keep Thanksgiving?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

And maybe there's a way of cobbling together a kind of alliance of these groups and finding a way to -- to make that work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2009] Reference

Shopping for a bank, what people end up doing is cobbling together a group of financial institutions that meet their needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007] Reference

So she sewed me up, and I looked very smart; and if there happened to be any unseemly cobbling, she hid it with beads or spangles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina] Reference

In fact, South Korea says it's cobbling together some proposals that could inch the two countries closer to a diplomatic resolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2003] Reference

It was at such a feast that Princess Isabella first met a young shoe-maker named Coriander, who worked in his father's cobbling shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Begonia {part one}] Reference

For the Clinton administration, there is no higher foreign policy priority than cobbling together some sort of lasting Middle East peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2000] Reference