In private corporate trusts that have been mismanaged a basis of appeal has been found only when some favorable circumstance has brought to light conditions so shocking as to cause those people who have possessed political power, as a matter of self-protection, to demand a thorough reorganization and revision of methods.

He so mismanaged matters that he only increased the king's danger, and brought general contempt and imminent danger on himself likewise.

No man in ordinary life would be justified in seizing his neighbor's property because he was weak and his property was mismanaged.

The British navy is so strong that, unless it were mismanaged, the German navy ought to have no chance of overcoming it.

Lorenzo continued to bank but mismanaged the work and lost heavily; while his poetical tendencies no doubt distracted his attention generally from affairs.

It was as impossible to levy a force of militia as one of regular troops, for the militia could not be embodied without great expense; and the finances of the whole kingdom had been so mismanaged that money was as hard to procure as men.

The revenue derived from charitable estates had been "no less scandalously mismanaged."

Her affairs had been sadly mismanaged.

For the first time in his neglected and mismanaged life he knew the pleasure of congenial work; and this, although Lorrimer worked him like a slave.

Behind the question whether the civil side of the Crimean campaign had been mismanaged lay the wider issue whether the Executive should allow its duties to be delegated to a committee of the House of Commons.

And I think that the answer that must first occur to every onethe logical inferenceis that the affairs of this country with respect to our obligations under the treaty of 1852 must have been very much mismanaged to have produced consequences so contrary to the position occupied by another Power equally bound with ourselves by that treaty.

It was said that Gregorio, whom most people had detested, had mismanaged her fortune, though nothing was hinted about any great fraud; and people added that when the day of reckoning had come he had found himself ruined, and had lost his mind; Matilde, as guardian, had incurred the young princess's displeasure, but the latter had treated her generously, allowing her to live in the palace, which was now undoubtedly Veronica's property.

This property had been greatly mismanaged by the person who had the direction of it on the spot; and, after various promises and evasions on his part, which, however they might serve to beguile the patience of Mr. Falkland, had been attended with no salutary fruits, it was resolved that Mr. Collins should go over in person, to rectify the abuses which had so long prevailed.

Their drill can hardly be appointed for wrong hours, or otherwise mismanaged.

The opening chapter on the Crimean War is the only fair critique of that gallant, but mismanaged campaign we remember to have seen.

He had estimated his character at a glance correctly, and saw in him a mismanaged student.

Nannie has a fine character but has been mismanaged at home, and since coming here.

Once married, it is managed, or mismanaged, as the case may be, by the husband, except in very special cases.

But he had mismanaged that interview.

From various causes, they have mismanaged their lives.

If Mr. Weiss is really a criminal, he has mismanaged his affairs badly.

It shoots out now with the loud suddenness of a mismanaged soda-water cork.

Much of the responsibility also rests with the Ministry of the new era; they had mismanaged affairs; the mismanagement arose from the want of union among them, for the Liberal majority were in many matters opposed to the King and the throne.

But, in his secret opinion, she was spoilt and mismanaged; and he talked a good deal to Phoebe about her bringing-up, theorising and haranguing in his usual way.

Naturally, the class which has the most cause to be grateful to the Public Trust Office is that composed of widows and orphans and other unbusinesslike inheritors of small properties, persons whose little inheritances are so often mismanaged by private trustees or wasted in law costs.