He hits on the tight connection in everything we're seeing between incompetence, state mendacity and incipient authoritarianism. |
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Mild forms of cleft palate include submucosal clefts, pharyngeal incompetence and bifid uvula. |
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I'm plodding on with the street scene painting and it's beginning to come to life in spite of my tremulous incompetence. |
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Many experts believe the toll would have been lower but for shoddy construction, corruption and government incompetence. |
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Mitral valve regurgitation is also called mitral insufficiency, or incompetence. |
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It's become a legal morass, muddied by claims of incompetence and backroom deals. |
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They are shown as noble and selfless defenders of the motherland despite the reality which sees them plagued by corruption and incompetence. |
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And most of all, there is the unaccountable cruelty, incompetence and stupidity of people. |
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Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence. |
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Grind is yet another sad demonstration of Hollywood's incompetence in generating sizzling summer fare. |
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Now, none of this should be taken to mean success is invariably tainted by skullduggery or attained in spite of incompetence. |
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Instead, the stories have been about alleged corruption, incompetence and skulduggery. |
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In rapid succession, the minister exposes her ignorance, selfishness, incompetence, and unhesitating willingness to deceive the British public. |
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The bowlers and fielders were quick to remind the other batsmen of their incompetence to bat at this level. |
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She had planned to give a grumbling apology for being late when he sniped at her incompetence, but she really did feel bad now. |
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In conclusion, the inspector offered his resignation to the Board, being much nettled by an accusation of incompetence in the London papers. |
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Add to these charges the negligence and incompetence shown throughout this sorry affair. |
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There was no skill with the long sword, and Jash wielded the broadsword with a shocking incompetence. |
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Accusations of venality, incompetence and corruption dogged him throughout his career, and history has rarely been kind to him. |
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They blame their current troubles mostly on the corruption, venality and incompetence of local officials. |
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He won't be answering to any inquiries when he tips the bucket on scandal, skulduggery, or just general incompetence. |
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The problem is reported as being a mixture of incompetence, inexperience and bureaucratic infighting. |
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If he does not manage to get his work done by a certain time, it is his own incompetence and none of my business. |
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There are those who condemn it as mob rule that vulgarises society and as a belief that tolerates mediocrity and incompetence. |
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But tragically for unionism, they made such a hames of it that they revealed both their political inadequacy and their economic incompetence. |
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Annoying as the album frequently is, it doesn't irritate through ham-fistedness or incompetence. |
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Attempts to introduce additional charges on cash dispensers not only annoyed customers for the banks' avarice but for their incompetence. |
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The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff. |
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Sadly, the incompetence of many technical design staffs extends beyond new hires. |
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Mrs. Bhutto was run out of office in 1996 on charges of corruption, economic incompetence and the sanctioning of police hit squads. |
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Wilson's idealism and incompetence unleashed or hastened many of the horrors of the 20th century, abroad and at home. |
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Exasperated by the apparent chronic incompetence of the new Children and Family Court Advisory Service, he sacked the entire board. |
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It is easy to excuse incompetence, it is unacceptable to pardon impropriety. |
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As I understand the defence, the real cause of the plaintiffs' poor sales is their incompetence and penny-pinching. |
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Indeed, courts have recognized that developmental immaturity may qualify a juvenile for a finding of incompetence. |
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There are so many examples of the utter incompetence of people who are supposed to be serving you in some way. |
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I swear that the incompetence of government departments never ceases to amaze me. |
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The impression given is one of slovenliness, incompetence and inability to govern at the highest level. |
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This is the second year we have been disenfranchised by this inept system and incompetence behind its planning. |
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Sometimes it was impossible to tell where bad luck stopped and incompetence or inexperience kicked in. |
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Once it became publicized, the bureau's gaffe generated much clucking and snide comment on the nature of incompetence. |
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The recent fiasco over parking charges has demonstrated their arrogance and incompetence. |
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The British soldiers had to face the incompetence of their own commanders as well as the invincible Boer commandos in the field. |
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The report does, however, portray a torrid tale of arrogance and incompetence by the company's management. |
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More extraordinary is that as time went on, instead of criticism for incompetence and foolhardiness, Scott continued to attract hero-worship. |
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Even the meager construction projects fell through because of the the government foot-dragging and incompetence. |
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Fortunately, all of this is incompetence rather than identity theft or some other fraud. |
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Like all problems, however, the current perception of incompetence presents an opportunity. |
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Even such a cynic as I can't quite believe the unique blend of dishonesty and incompetence. |
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The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable. |
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The author precipitously blames bimetallism's failure on the incompetence of the movement's leaders. |
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Some of these tapes clearly demonstrate the incompetence of the investigation. |
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But Scrushy's incompetence went far beyond allowing a den of thieves to run amok in the finance department. |
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The latest threats are acts of desperation born out of hatred and incompetence. |
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No level of incompetence or failure would either exasperate or disconcert him. |
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Brown is understandably defensive, disliking the brutal suggestion that the life and pensions sector had been guilty of incompetence. |
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The notorious incompetence of the crown law officers led to the proceedings being dismissed on technical grounds. |
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Now its politicians are being brought into disrepute by incompetence, arrogance and ambition. |
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I longed to return to that innocent state of bumbling incompetence when a duck-dive was the pinnacle of achievement. |
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It is hard to imagine carelessness, incompetence, prejudice, distortion, falsehood and unfairness being put to better use. |
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What primarily entrenched a culture of incompetence was a combination of nationalism and equalitarianism. |
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Walk away under the guise of having urgent doctorly business to take care of instead of just admitting to total incompetence. |
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Inspectors would not aim to reward excellence or to measure quality, merely to identify incompetence or fraud. |
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Councillors must ensure that the same old incompetence wastefulness and inefficiencies are not allowed to continue. |
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Other usual reasons for disqualification, including adjudgement of incompetence or quasi-incompetence, shall also apply. |
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Perhaps he is admitting his failures and incompetence as a teacher in front of a council of which he is the president. |
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And so, once again, the Democrats reaped the bitter harvest of their own pallor and incompetence. |
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Many are having great difficulties keeping their dignity in a culture where redundancy is still equated with incompetence and laziness. |
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Despite some tough reforms, no one is able to guess at the cost of widespread military corruption and incompetence. |
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It seems that nothing is safe from the all-embracing incompetence of this Council. |
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He asks why he should be made to pay for the incompetence of the bureaucrat that bungled the repossession. |
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If we keep exposing the incompetence of veteran anchormen, they won't be able to write us off as amateurs. |
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Our reputation has suffered mainly through management incompetence and our competitors have put the boot in but the balance sheet is restorable. |
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Patients having greater saphenous incompetence may undergo ligation and division of the greater saphenous vein. |
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The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution. |
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We heard arrant nonsense from this hopeless Minister of Police, who wanders around the country in a daze, blinded by his own incompetence. |
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The Government Information Service had long been a byword for incompetence. |
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How would this family prove it was the insurance company's incompetence that led to the lapsed life policy and thus claim the assured amount? |
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He made a strategic error and was at best guilty of political naivety, at worst of incompetence. |
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Sighing audibly the young swordsman shook his head, in frustration and disgust at his own incompetence. |
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This would occur whenever the public is made aware of official malfeasance or incompetence. |
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But uncovering incompetence, malpractice and abuse of power is another matter. |
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Despite what scaredy-cats decry as a wacko platform, he hasn't managed his campaign with incompetence. |
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The entire, sorry saga of managerial incompetence stems from that single decision. |
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Panic, incompetence, in-fighting and back-stabbing were all documented by the impartial hand of the civil service. |
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Well, if only one television program screws this up, it is a reflection on the stupidity and incompetence of its producers and hosts. |
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This degrading spectacle was a mixture of incompetence, impotence and empty theatrics. |
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This is in no way a send-up of ignorance and incompetence, but rather a critique of a world that can't seem to recognize it. |
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One wonders whether the government is huffing and puffing to cover up its own incompetence. |
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Others saw administrative incompetence and Bolivarian brinksmanship at work. |
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The result of her incompetence has been that young drivers are being crucified and that business are going to the wall with thousands of jobs lost. |
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Their failure provides grist for conservative educational ideologues to victim-bash and propagate the phony notion of chronic black educational incompetence. |
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The GTC registers all qualified teachers working in state schools and holds disciplinary hearings and adjudicates on matters of conduct and professional incompetence. |
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Even in those cases where the Police may not be involved, the shoddiness and incompetence demonstrated makes it difficult to retain any respect for the Police. |
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Given these advantages, it comes as little surprise that barring illness, scandal or sheer incompetence, most incumbents are virtual shoo-ins for re-election. |
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Yes, both were problems of mismanagement, incompetence, neglect, and disinterest. |
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Economic and social development as twin goals of the developmental state cannot take place under the pathologies of greed, tribalism and incompetence. |
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The film illustrates how incompetence and indolence among senior ranks can fuel indiscipline, larceny and even murder hardly a tonic for the troops. |
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The incompetence, the lies, the bullying, the cynicism, the cover-ups. |
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The account of a former Congress employee would suggest that management of the health care organisation is riddled with nepotism, corruption and incompetence. |
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Its unhappy record of arrogant insouciance and incompetence as a monopoly service provider has given its new rivals a record of leaky credibility against which to run. |
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The former home secretary inherited a department that was a byword for inefficiency and incompetence, and ordered a large scale clear-out of the dead wood. |
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He was found guilty of sexual harassment, making false mileage claims, giving false or misleading information to the club's marketing committee and gross incompetence. |
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But as Palin also demonstrated, eventually, evidence of venality and incompetence seeps in with the public at large. |
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These images unflinchingly confronted the gore, the naked terror, the arrogant incompetence, the pointless cruelty, the insane devastation of the military nightmare. |
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We skied over the sea ice, bridged the leads and clambered over the sastrugi, and my arrogance and incompetence lost me a finger-end to frostbite. |
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Your interest rates might be hiked by the ideological overreach and incompetence on Capitol Hill. |
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Certainly, the Home Office appears to have acted intemperately, launching an appeal against his successful asylum claim on the grounds of their own incompetence. |
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Reports conflict over the value of prophylactic, therapeutic, or rescue cervical cerclage for women at risk of preterm labour because of cervical incompetence. |
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And their suspicions make them see betrayal at every turn, even when incompetence may be the cause of a particular problem. |
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That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread. |
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Watching this incompetence is infuriating, and the view security cameras show from inside the mall is horrific. |
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When it comes to the practice of democracy, Americans now have few illusions about our own incompetence, division, and negligence. |
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They've accused fire fighters of incompetence, alleging that when the first fire truck arrived at the school, it was carrying just 200 litres of water. |
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His incompetence, both in terms of seamanship and leadership, led to the grounding of the Medusa and encouraged the panic that swept those on board. |
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One thing that has probably mellowed only a little with age is Lloyd's famously sharp tongue and his impatience with incompetence or poor thinking. |
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Watsonians should have notched up three tries in the first five minutes thanks to poor cover, dreadful kicking and incompetence from the visitors. |
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It was a display of gross incompetence on an almost cosmic scale. |
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If you have a specific reason such as placenta previa or low lying placenta, bleeding or cervical incompetence, bed rest is advisable. |
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Bush's national security adviser and later as secretary of state was marked by deception, dissemblance and incompetence. |
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The factory where she worked was a poisonous mass of incompetence, favoritism, and sabotage. |
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The abysmal record of overruns, low-balled estimated costs, highballed ridership estimates and incompetence is their legacy. |
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Delayed swallow reflex, laryngeal incompetence and pharyngeal residue following deglutition, are frequent sequela following stroke. |
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They are not the result of momentary negligence or incompetence. |
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The South African government has come under heavy fire from a Canadian business organisation for incompetence and shortsightedness. |
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It causes multiple personality disorder and also ostensibly mental incompetence. |
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And they suggest something worse than incompetence is at work there. |
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It criticized the FLN regime for its lack of religiosity and moral fibre, for its incompetence and corruption. |
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The rebellion exposed the utter corruption and incompetence of the military and destabilised the Spanish Government, leading to dictatorship. |
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Accused of rudeness and incompetence, he was also credited with ruining Soviet agriculture and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. |
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By this time, accusations of tyranny and incompetence on the part of Columbus had also reached the Court. |
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Apparently due to his incompetence, Tizoc was likely assassinated by his own nobles five years into his rule. |
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The Dutch account of these events was very different, accusing Morga of incompetence and cowardice. |
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He pats on the back young men whom sterner critics would knock down, because even in fantastic incompetence he perceives the good intention. |
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This is the man whose incompetence led to the inept response to the floods and who bodged the badger cull. |
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One should not discount laziness, incompetence, and ignorance as factors in poor FOIA performance. |
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Also, beyond incompetence, he was meant to be weak, vain and maudlin. |
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Experimental vector incompetence of a soft tick, Ornithodoros sonrai, for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. |
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In addition to displaying an economic incompetence that borders on innumeracy, these matters also raise questions about honesty and judgement. |
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The apparent incompetence of the Senate, and the brilliance of Marius, had been put on full display. |
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Memories of post-Katrina revulsion at incompetence were cued up. |
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Relatives of Lance-Corporal Thomas Keys and Corporal Russell Aston also accused the MoD of incompetence. |
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Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate. |
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The usual managerial incompetence was in evidence in yesterday's meeting. |
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In that time, he saw all the usual mess-ups that accompany military campaigns, from lack of proper equipment to overstretched troops to commanding incompetence. |
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He believed that the incompetence of the masses could eventually be overcome if they were given a chance to take part in politics, especially at the local level. |
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The court noted this August, that an employee can be fired for cause based on incompetence, if he or she consistently fails to meet reasonable standards. |
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The boom years facilitated widespread bravado, incompetence and unconscionability in Australian businesses that the finance sector has fostered and nurtured. |
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Incompetent deep veins lead to a reflux of blood pedally with the resultant dilation of distal veins, which itself causes valvular incompetence, setting up a vicious cycle. |
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