In fact she made some of the other contributors sound slightly bungling and lightweight. |
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A persistent, yet bungling, house breaker is behind bars for more than four years after being caught red-handed during his latest two exploits. |
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A bungling criminal was crushed by a car when he severed a suspension cable instead of a fuel pipe while trying to siphon petrol. |
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I don't see him getting hit, but I do see him bungling an order to take someone out, and getting himself killed. |
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If you want a relevant example of serious bungling, you need look no further than the Victorian Lib government. |
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Earlier this year he stirred up Coronation Street, playing a cameo role as a bungling drayman who made a play for barmaid Shelley Unwin. |
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He came to parliament and made a poignant and dignified departure after a bungling and undignified three weeks. |
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It is all in the facts and figures, but, of course, she images somebody who is useless, inept, bungling, and ineffectual. |
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And then his bungling efforts were absurdly inadequate to deal with the tire. |
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Now his not knowing the difference was what I should call bungling and very amateurish. |
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Each day seems to bring some new revelation and the hierarchy's bungling, even venal handling of such cases. |
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A spectacular charity firewalk has been called off because council bungling turned the event into a damp squib. |
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What emerges may be even worse than our brutal, self-interested bungling, but hope springs eternal. |
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His political career is plagued with bungling mistakes, places where he stuck his neck out only to have his head chopped off. |
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A guard was hit with a metal bar as a bungling robber snatched an empty cash box. |
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Their frustrations and ire were directed at a dithering Government and bungling quangos, not those who promote the sport in this country. |
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Who is in charge over there and why will someone not take responsibility for this bungling? |
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The writer claims that those who have deplored the investigation all along can take satisfaction in Starr's bungling. |
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The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable. |
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The party has a temporary leader, Guglielmo Epifani, because its previous boss resigned after bungling the presidential election this year. |
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This bungling and possible political interference cost our researchers funding and may cost lives in the long run. |
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When will the minister realize that her bungling is harmful to all the communities? |
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Why do the Conservatives move to correct their bungling only when their incompetence and misleading statements finally catch up with them? |
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Mr. Speaker, Canada summer jobs is another example of the government's masterful bungling. |
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He has always promised that every one of his ministers will have to take full responsibility for bungling in their departments. |
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The CIDA minister is bungling Canadian initiatives in development abroad by not delivering the proper aid. |
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Meanwhile at the federal level, we have had nothing but bungling from Canada's finance minister. |
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Liberal cabinet documents released to the media in the last couple of weeks really demonstrate the bungling on the Kyoto file. |
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In fact there is some evidence that al-Zawahiri was allowed to escape through either the bungling or corruption of our Afghani surrogates. |
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Slightly flawed magic, after all, comes across as bungling, not as magic at all. |
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You are involved with private building law, however, if you wish to know where and which bungling builder you have to pay. |
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Protesters blame him for mismanaging the economy, bungling the fight against SARS, and listening too carefully to Beijing and not enough to local opinion. |
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The problem for them is that this bungling incompetent already got more votes than the well-funded six-term incumbent did. |
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Microsoft has had notable successes building the Xbox business and not bungling the acquisition of Skype. |
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But his bungling was still a welcome bonus for the Feds, allowing them to kill lots of birds with one stone. |
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Personally, I think that school lunch programs have taken the path of every other bungling government bureaucracy and are achieving noteworthiness for inefficiency. |
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The gang may have been from Peckham and been as bungling as Del Boy and Rodney in Only Fools and Horses but their raid on a Winchester store was no joke. |
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And they're bungling, and they're a mess by flattering the troops. |
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A bungling bootlegger peddling pirate DVDs was caught red-handed when he attempted to sell his loot to a Surrey trading standards officer outside the trading standards office. |
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A bungling thief who masterminded a plot to defraud cashpoint customers by installing a camera in an ATM machine has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. |
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The crisis exposed or exacerbated ugly elements of Japanese society that had been swept under the tatami mat, from its high rate of suicides and domestic violence to bureaucratic bungling and dishonesty. |
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The bungling in Afghanistan demanded, at the least, a serious reconsideration of the nature and limits of Britain's diminished, but still considerable, power. |
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Will the minister accept responsibility for this bungling, or does he share the view of the Minister of Foreign Affairs that it was the fault of our hard-working public servants? |
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If there is any bungling in the department, nobody will be singled out. |
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Shorn of those excess costs, and shorn of the bungling management that had driven them into a deep rut, they could re-emerge as vibrant and competitive companies. |
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My friends across the way know that the auditor general routinely chastized the government for its bungling of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. |
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Bakshi, a bungling Indian actor who accidentally receives an invitation to a lavish Hollywood dinner party. |
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Equally, it's hard not to let what we know of Donald Rumsfeld's years of catastrophic military bungling cloud our take on Avedon's young myrmidon of the Ford administration. |
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Families are dealing with demands for thousands of pounds after having credits overpaid by bungling taxmen. |
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Before I support legislation creating another program, proper safeguards must be put in place to avoid bureaucratic bungling and political interference. |
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Yet they sacked only one, in Pennsylvania, where a uniquely bungling incumbent, Tom Corbett, lost to Tom Wolf, a serenely smiling local businessman. |
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Mix in ethnic hatred, anger at official bungling, and the fear born of not comprehending why the horror happened but realising that nobody knows how to stop it happening again. |
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El Comercio, Peru's establishment newspaper, echoed opposition calls for the sacking of Yehude Simon, the prime minister, and of the interior minister for bungling the dispute. |
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From bungling in Washington to cronyism in Kabul, the Karzai regime has been hobbled by corruption that has undermined its standing in the provinces. |
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But this is mostly an account of backroom deals, broken promises and bungling government not to mention bitter partisanship. The great and well-known irony of Obamacare is that it is based on a Republican idea. |
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A CASH machine sits on a garage forecourt after bungling crooks failed to steal it. |
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Mr. Gurmant Grewal: Madam Speaker, it is a known fact that there was bungling by CSIS, the RCMP and various federal government institutions in the Air-India bombing fiasco. |
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A slimmed-down Jonah Hill A slimmed-down Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play bungling LA cops who are ordered to dress up as teenagers and infiltrate a school drugs ring. |
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The British military efforts were marked by bungling, and in 1855 a restive Parliament considered a resolution to establish a committee on the conduct of the war. |
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There are the own-goals, the bungling keepers, the bad haircuts, the miskicks, the expensive players who flop and the manager who sits in the wrong dugout. |
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For the IWW, sabotage came to mean any withdrawal of efficiency, including the slowdown, the strike, working to rule, or creative bungling of job assignments. |
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