To soothe the uninvited, a second and third were presented as ad-hoc responses to market turmoil.
If Roku let you sync up multiple remotes with a single box, each could serve as an ad-hoc wireless audio receiver for a room full of suddenly wireless speakers.
So, say the good people at HelloWallet, if a huge chunk of men and women are using their retirement savings vehicles as an ad-hoc emergency savings account why not have employers first help their employees set up a real emergency savings account before addressing retirement savings?
"We note that DWP issued these as a research report, not as official statistics, " Sir Michael writes, adding that the department's website refers to the research as "publication of ad-hoc statistics".
The BRICS as a group is largely an ad-hoc one, but the individual nations are increasingly aware of their potential to emerge as a new force in world affairs thanks to their strong economies and combined population.
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Adil and his wife, Umm Zainab (who is along for the trip as Adil's temper pacifier and ad-hoc sound girl) -- would head for Makkah, as they were doing the Hajj themselves as pilgrims and wanted to perform their "umrah" in the city before the crowds got in.
Even ad-hoc query tools such as Dremel have been introduced to support Big Data environments with low latency.
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And the day-to-day intelligence suffers as these new ad hoc organizations are created.
The G-20 was set up as an ad hoc response to the financial crises of the 1990s to meet the need to expand necessary international financial and economic cooperation beyond the seven largest economies plus Russia to include developing nations, like China, India and Brazil.
Mr Williamson's middle way can be seen, if nothing else, as an attempt to replace this ad hoc non-system with something less muddled.
Yet it doesn't go far enough for us to feel much of anything as Algren goes through all sorts of hell on a mission most improbable, first as Katsumoto's captive (he learns to speak Japanese in a matter of months), and later as his acolyte, ad hoc strategist and joyous -- except not joyous enough -- companion in arms, if need be to the death.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that "financial repression" - as mooted by Reinhart and Sbranica - is, if not under way, then being pieced together ad hoc out of the anti-crisis measures in Europe.
It awards ad-hoc prizes meant to keep traders interested as much in day-to-day performance as they are in the final outcome.
The Local Government Association said that it is appealing to Westminster for a special ad hoc fund to cover the cost of road repairs this year - as happened in 2007 - as well as for further investment in resurfacing roads.
Ms. SIMON: And I know that you have a relationship with John as an ad hoc mentee, when John was in prison and you were being such - of such great help to him.
The problem, as many observers agree, is a failure to consistently implement it - not just on an ad hoc basis after earthquakes strike but across the country before disaster hits.
For this reason, ad hoc responses will still be critical, such as last week's federal guarantees for money-market funds, Fed loans to banks to buy asset-backed commercial paper and, on Sunday, approval of the remaining two big independent investment banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, to become Fed-regulated bank holding-companies whose investment bank units can now borrow from the Fed on the same terms as other banks.
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