Governments were inept.

His administration has been inept, corrupt, and without accomplishment.

The Soviet system was particularly inept at handling information.

You should realize by now that I wouldn't be that inept.

Inexperienced and diplomatically inept, Kan s administration buckled, releasing the trawler captain early.

LEvko of Foreign Notes commented on the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's inept response

Agent Smith A fairly inept American CIA agent with ties to the Agency.

Often times this inept procedure must be repeated to actually kill the animal.

Unfortunately, however, the European Parliament is fairly inept at selling itself to public opinion.

Hatoyama s inept handling of key national security issues played a key role in his undoing.

He called it a bumbling, amateur film exercise ... a completely inept oddity, boring and pretentious.

High crime situation, inept politicians, ineffective policing, terrible roads inefficient health care ad nauseum ad infinitum.

The anti hero, however, at best demonstrates a few underdeveloped traits, at worst, is totally inept.

Local governments that were inept tended to act defensively, thus undermining and impairing the involvement of communities.

Politicians are inept at handling such problems, so environmental risks continue to grow without adequate changes in public policy.

On the contrary, his belligerent rhetoric and inept governance scared off investors, inciting economic decline and boosting unemployment and poverty.

In nearly every case, the response to the attacks was brutal, inept, and costly in terms of civilian lives lost.

Hamas s emergence as a formidable military force also reflects the Egyptians inept performance in preventing the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.

Those inept comments fatally undercut the government s summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.

Only a constitution, they argue, can restore much needed legitimacy to a political system that is widely perceived as deeply corrupt and inept.

Ordinary Nigerians, brutalized by a dizzying succession of corrupt and inept military juntas, have, like a drowning man, clutched at democracy as their lifeline.

The ECB s decision last week to withhold credit to the country s banking system, and thereby to shutter the banks, was both inept and catastrophic.

This division of labor in all areas of life means that men and women remain surprisingly inept at tasks assigned to the other sex.

Ogarkov s ineptness (and inept mendacity), together with the mounting failure since 1979 of the Soviet Union s war in Afghanistan, exposed the system s advanced decrepitude.

Inept government and economic decline in the 1980 s and 1990 s obliged Nigeria s leaders to focus on problems closer to home, like the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Those revolutions, whatever their ultimate outcome, have exposed the philosophy and behavior of Bin Laden and his followers as not only illegitimate and inhumane, but actually inept at achieving better conditions for ordinary Muslims.

He is inept at thinking his plans through, usually causing even more trouble, and he seldom thinks about anything unless it has something to do with a woman or the promise of avoiding work.

The US currently is witnessing several corruption scandals. Even America s Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for providing relief after natural disasters and man made catastrophes, was in the hands of inept political cronies rather than professionals.

Apart from the cases of the inept clamp down on PAC activists and the detention of people subsequently charged with the murder of Mr. Chris Hani, the media, and most political organizations, had ignored those detentions.

The parties on the right largely embrace free market thinking, while Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood and its kindred parties in Libya and Tunisia are deeply sceptical of the state, which they view as bloated, inept, and ultimately corrupt.

The parties on the right largely embrace free market thinking, while Egypt s Muslim Brotherhood and its kindred parties in Libya and Tunisia are deeply sceptical of the state, which they view as bloated, inept, and ultimately corrupt.

Jane Novak, who tweets about Yemen, notes Saudi Arabia w whips bloggers leading corrupt kings military dictators to rescue corrupt inept Yemen Pres Hadi from civil war, uprising Jane Novak ( JNovak_Yemen) March 26, 2015 Indian Shuvankar Mukherjee comments

They lined up the dead on Alamdaar Street, which runs through the city s Shia community, and refused to bury them until the government dismissed inept and corrupt local officials, led by a local nawab who spent more time abroad or in Islamabad than in the provincial capital.

The garrulous minister called the intrusion just one little spot of acne on the otherwise beautiful face of the bilateral relationship a mere blemish that could be treated with an ointment. Those inept comments fatally undercut the government s summoning of the Chinese ambassador to demand a return to the status quo ante.

Given this history, and the storm of calls for reform in the Arab world, it is a tragic irony that America and the West have paid so little attention to the terrestrial Arab monopoly television channels. Indeed, US criticism of Al Jazeera sounds more like special pleading because of America's inept bumbling in Iraq than a genuine desire for free, open, and critical Arab media.