He tried to save a ropy secondary bank, which is now called a hedge fund, and reduced interest rates three times in two weeks.
Some of the piers are getting pretty ropy.
What is unbelievable today is the sheer hypocrisy of a party that has such a catalogue of ropy practices in local government.
I had to live in pretty ropy conditions for several years and my priority was probably a new carpet rather than energy efficiency.
A patent in isolation is, as a rule, a rather ropy affair.
Those of us who represent rural or semi-rural constituencies know that quite a lot of the housing stock there is in a pretty ropy condition.
He has got off to a slightly ropy start.
That was a rather ropy question.
