mishandle

Preposition: of

• case: I apologize on behalf of the agency for its mishandling of the case.
• health: To put it very bluntly, the Commission realized that any mishandling of public health led to very important risks.
• complaint: The Financial Services Authority ( FSA ) has fined Abbey National plc for its mishandling of complaints made about endowment mis-selling.
• investigation: In non-financial matters, such as sexual harassment, mishandling of an investigation can result in a costly lawsuit.
• situation: That is - in what degree is the present situation down to the mishandling of past difficult situations by Lord Carey?
• fund: They then changed their minds, presumably because of further mishandling of funds.

Object

• complaint: Last year, the mortgage bank Abbey was fined £ 800,000 for mishandling endowment complaints.
• situation: Essex mishandled the Irish situation, made his mad ride to Nonesuch, and was imprisoned for disobedience in York House.
• case: The then Chief Charity Commissioner said that the Commission did not accept that they had mishandled the case.
• information: Mitnick says: ' Your company has a responsibility to make employees aware of how a serious mistake can occur from mishandling nonpublic information.
• issue: The management cannot escape their responsibility for mishandling these issues simply by saying we will do better in future.
• application: In May 1997 Mrs J complained to the ICE that CSA had mishandled the application for CSM which she had made in June 1995.

Modifying Another Word

• badly: Ron badly mishandled his response to the Sun article, changing his story within 24 hours.
• so: He will examine why backlist is often so mishandled.
• not: And we must not mishandle issues of secondary significance in such a way that we destroy the unity that God has created.
• also: CSA also mishandled a subsequent charging order by failing to attend the hearing to have the order nisi made absolute.
• totally: Grafton mishandled totally the Middlesex election fiasco which led to the Massacre of St George's Field.
• generally: They wrongly imposed a deduction from earnings order, overcharged him maintenance and generally mishandled his case.