Houses are riddled with bullet holes.

Even Germany s temporary success is riddled with caveats.

Most quoted the OSCE's finding that the elections were riddled with serious shortcomings.

Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises. Monnet hated all that.

But it had barely launched when researchers found it to be riddled with security flaws.

The participants noted that all the national constitutions are riddled with contradictions (Bhutan does not have a constitution).

Crisis management is no way to sustain relationships that are economically close but riddled by rival claims and bitterly contested historical narratives.

Some types of Swiss cheese have a distinctive appearance, as the blocks of the cheese are riddled with holes known as eyes .

New bus routes between India and Pakistan may not make headlines, but they deliver a degree of normalcy to relations riddled with mistrust.

In the process, markets take investors on a wild rollercoaster ride, with the European crisis (riddled with even more confusion and volatility) serving to aggravate their queasiness.

But that is merely an alibi that allows the French to claim that they have nothing against reform in principle, but that the reforms being proposed are riddled with injustice.

This is important, because, whereas the West is relatively at peace with itself, Asia is riddled with actual conflicts (within and around Pakistan) and looming ones all around the South China Sea.

Historical memory is not always quite as bad as this. But international politics and diplomacy are riddled with examples of bad and ill considered precedents being used to justify foreign policy decisions, invariably leading to catastrophe.

So, overall, statistics about happiness seem to be as accurate as many of the statistics regularly used by politicians, such as public opinion polls, poverty rates, or, for that matter, GDP growth all of which are riddled with imperfections.

Unfortunately, Bo s case is not the exception in China, but the rule. Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.

America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits with the financing of education at the losing end.

Regardless of how the Libyan government eventually handles the LIA, all sovereign wealth funds and their advisers and fundraisers can learn several important lessons. Of course, no one should infer from the Libyan case that other SWFs across the board are riddled with corruption and conflicts of interest.

The fate of those who began working at a very early age, or of women who interrupted work to raise their children, is used as an argument against reform. But that is merely an alibi that allows the French to claim that they have nothing against reform in principle, but that the reforms being proposed are riddled with injustice.