Today, the ragtag collection of houseboats is in the thousands, and residents visit each other in kayaks.
Mali's ragtag soldiers fled when the two men emerged from desert hide-outs last year.
Allied pressure brought a ragtag army of starving Poles from the depths of Siberia.
This ragtag army mustered in Persia, trained in Palestine and fought notably at Monte Cassino in Italy.
Some members of his ragtag crew, refugees living in a tent camp, have already lost limbs to the mines.
But when Lawrence looked at his ragtag band of Bedouin fighters he realized that a direct attack on Medina would never succeed.
Cinco de Mayo marks May 5, 1862, when a ragtag Mexican force whipped the superior French Army at the Battle of Puebla.
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That mess, the dissents said, resulted from the ragtag decentralized election system used in Florida, not by what the Florida court did.
With graduation two decades behind him, Dodge is trying to make pro football a going concern as captain of the ragtag Duluth Bulldogs.
Wander any of the cobblestoned streets throughout the Centro Historico, where you'll find a ragtag sensory overload of booksellers, food vendors and knick-knack purveyors.
The bill of materials can rack up quickly when there's no standard and no interoperability, so how can such a ragtag operation really succeed?
More than 200 years ago, the British gave George Washington and his ragtag army fits when they seized New York City in an iron grip.
Exactly 150 years ago, General Zaragoza and his ragtag band of patriots made a brave stand against the invading forces of a world-renowned European army.
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Instead, the company wants to create a content platform strategy that ties together all of its ragtag content and app experiences into a single customer relationship.
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He was buying every punk rock and new wave record issued, taping them, and turning me onto tapes which I'd then play on my ragtag stereo.
So Hodgson, who has a knack for turning a ragtag roster of misfits into well-drilled overachievers by preaching fundamentals, may be a better fit for England than his record suggests.
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The Philippines' Corazon Aquino started her campaign against Ferdinand Marcos more than 14 years ago in remarkably similar circumstances: the fractious coalition, the ragtag convoys, the concern that contesting elections might be futile.
In the first episode of our "Upgrade" series, Motherboard goes to Rotterdam to watch Harada's ragtag team of scientists and engineers as they hustle to assemble the first Protei prototype and dodge the Dutch harbor patrol for their first water test.
On the main table I noticed what looked like the ragtag remains of some Physics 101 lab experiments: rusted silver balls on different inclines, distressed balloons, a stained funnel, a markered flask, a calcium-speckled Bunsen burner, iron filings and sandpaper, large magnets, and batteries that could have been bought from a Chinese immigrant on the subway.
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