This effort produced what can only be described as a "shemozzle": horses, waggons, and men piled themselves up in a hopeless tangle at the bottom of the wadi, and the night operations came to an abrupt end. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Mr Mulder said that because the system was such a "shemozzle", Kamco had no hope of detecting everyone who had been either ripped off or had benefited from the glitches. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
'No end of a shemozzle there's been there lately,' he said. From Wordnik.com. [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]
Like any fan he has watched with dismay the ongoing boardroom shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Dietmar Hamann aims for the top again – with or without MK Dons] Reference
Some kind of player plus cash shemozzle involving Ji-Sung Park could be in the offing. From Wordnik.com. [Football transfer rumours: Liverpool's Fernando Torres to stay or go?] Reference
For the majority, living in this shemozzle situation, the price increase of their staple food means hunger and death. From Wordnik.com. [Profiting Rice Traders gratuitously hikes prices of staple food] Reference
But which in the current climate instead looks like a rather tedious formality backed up by a managerial-form-wobble-Ray-Wilkins-ousting shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea v MSK Zilina - as it happened] Reference
Then what say we startby obstructingthe next intended shemozzle against the innocent countries of Iran and Syria, with doubtless oil-rich Venezuela in the sights down the range. From Wordnik.com. [The Glories of War] Reference
Brought back from our embassy in Washington to preside during the Somalia shemozzle, General John de Chastelain guided it to a policy mantra promising Canadian Forces able to fight "alongside the best against the best.". From Wordnik.com. [National Defence: A Little Common Sense] Reference
The tribes are vitally needed to rebuild this country and support whoever can really control this place and keep it an ally of America, as opposed to the mess and the almost anti-American shemozzle (ph) that it currently is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2007] Reference
Australia 46-1 Watson run out 36 What a shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The home insulation scheme is clearly a shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Catallaxy Files] Reference
No, the whole thing's been a shemozzle and they can go jump. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
It's been a shemozzle, a complete and utter waste of time and money. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines] Reference
TONY EASTLEY: After this week's shemozzle, Malcolm Turnbull acknowledged he could have handled things better. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"If ever a government deserves to lose after their first term it is this Rudd-Gillard shemozzle," Ms Bishop said. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
But perhaps the best reason for Shearer's instant departure would be no reason at all: an inexplicable flit, a bewildering shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference
NO longer prepared to tolerate a shemozzle of a train service, feeling unsafe travelling home at night and watching billions blown on what he considers politically motivated projects. From Wordnik.com. [The Australian | News |] Reference
The whole shemozzle seemed the worse for having at its centre an 18 year old fast bowler called Mohammad Aamer, who seemed to have the world at his feet, but had been ensnared by the prospect of easy money. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The panel recommends the establishment of a permanent secretariat to make sure policy recommendations are properly executed, a proposition that will have the added benefit of preventing the government from falling into such traps as last year's epic shemozzle over employee share schemes. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
And even as I spoke all interest in Appleby’s shemozzle faded completely away and I thought of Lucy, lying at home in tears, waiting for her pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
"Then should ensue the gloriousest shemozzle that ever was; but this scene is spoiled by some miserable perisher who says it ain't worth while making. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14] Reference
But old Appleby’s a bit touchy and began telling off the doorman good and proper and then the secretary butted in and, to cut a long story short, there was something of a shemozzle.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Not just an ordinary shemozzle but a straight-out, full-blown shemozzle. ". From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It was a harsh sending off for the two boys for a bit of a shemozzle in the goalmouth, "said Galway boss John McIntyre. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He last night fronted furious Cronulla directors to explain the puzzling arrangements that NRL boss David Gallop branded a "total shemozzle ''. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Telegraph | Top Stories] Reference
Reviewing an incident involving Chris Adams, Mark Boucher and some rather catty insults back when the century was younger, Richie Benaud remarked, "It's a shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
1st over: England 11-0 (target: 160; Strauss 10, Cook 0) A fourth-innings target of 160 would normal prompt the odd pang of fear (or, if you're Australian, the sombre acceptance of an imminent shemozzle), but there is no sense that Bangladesh can win this. From Wordnik.com. [England v Bangladesh - as it happened] Reference
"What a shemozzle, isn't it?" he said dazedly. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Man wants apology over ecstasy-shampoo shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
A shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth] Reference
3. 33pm: Guy Hornsby is looking forward to a right old shemozzle: "Surely everyone's missing the elephant in the room (apologies to elephants here) with Spain just running Holland into the ground for 90 minutes on Sunday?. From Wordnik.com. [World Cup 2010 live blog: 8 July] Reference
Think shemozzle. From Wordnik.com. [AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
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