0 the practice of reacting to what happens or is needed at a particular time, rather than planning in a way that suits all possible situations: --
That reliance must be based on structures that are in place and properly rehearsed before the event, and not on ad hockery.
One ought not to make frivolous remarks or engage in "ad hockery".
We need an industry and not an "ad hockery", an industry which will avoid the risks in the marine environment and the hazards to personnel.
I suspect that it will be a defence review by ad hockery.
To me they are just miserable "ad hockery".
This kind of ad hockery is just not good enough when the nation's security is at stake.
A book of this sort - that picks through Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Hume - risks losing any narrative thread to ad hockery.
They may end up facing the charge of arbitrariness or ad hocery.
