Use "incompetence" in a sentence

1. I’ve become very attached to this place and would hate to have to leave, especially if it was through my own incompetence

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2. This morning, as soon as she stepped into my office with some new texts in hand, the screen suddenly went black with a ''system error'', without my pressing a single key! What the heck, has she got a magnet or something? We called for a technician, as usual, but in the meanwhile the fair lady fumed and fretted at me and started shouting about my incompetence

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3. A few deaths for incompetence in following his orders and they all soon cowered from him

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4. Dilly’s the receptionist we share with the rest of the building – she’s a nice girl, but definitely not Brain of Britain and regularly drives Dave crackers with her inane comments and general incompetence

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5. He had risen to his current level of incompetence through cleverly exploited connections, not upon his own talents or the lack thereof

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6. “Where the fuck are we, this is a bloody joke didn’t anybody recce this rout before the attack started?” If I had the breath I would have answered no I don’t think they did the whole thing smelled of incompetence but I knew enough about the army to know nobody would admit it

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7. I heard Captain Melstone say they had been sacrificed like the rest of our troops on the altar of incompetence

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8. embarrassing episode to a man that would most probably laugh at my raging incompetence and lack

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9. Our military is under the command of Democrat fascists, the three pillars of which are corruption, incompetence, and tyranny

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10. Lastly, such attempts at stereotyping common attitudes merely serve to advance faulty notions of vulnerability and incompetence

11. East Timor is yet another illustration of Kissinger's indifference and incompetence

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12. The US loss in Vietnam, due to both Johnson and Nixon's staggering incompetence and ideological blindness, was one of the most visible and traumatic failures of any presidents in US history

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13. What: President James Buchanan's weakness, incompetence, defense of slavery, and sympathy for slave owning elites led directly to the Civil War

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14. This includes battle deaths, disease, and famine caused as much by Confederate government incompetence and ideological blindness as the war

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15. Some argued the problem was not his incompetence but the treasonous actions of those around him

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16. While clearly not all of the deaths were caused by Bush and his administration's incompetence, most of them were

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17. No, Bush's guilt is largely a matter of pure incompetence as an administrator, not very different from the many failings he had in appointing people to administer Iraq, and indeed in prosecuting and planning the quagmire of the Iraq War

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18. But Clinton did approve the final assault in the siege, kept Reno in spite of her deadly incompetence, and defended her actions and his own afterward

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19. Just as unconscionable, there were clearly several in federal law enforcement who should have been fired for their utter incompetence

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20. The biological warfare and arson plots only failed due to CSS incompetence

21. Democrats have been shamefully exploiting this unhappy event for political reasons; unyielding in their persistence that poverty and racism are (somehow) the underlying factors responsible for this (―avoidable‖) tragedy when, in fact, it was the result of ―unintended‖ consequences precipitated by decades of political cynicism, cronyism, mis-management, fiscal incompetence and (local) corruption at every conceivable level; this despite the forewarnings of field experts (Army Corps of Engineers) citing potential or probably breaches in drainage canal levees since the Johnson Administration

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22. ) Clinton worsened right wing terrorism by his incompetence

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23. There was the war itself, launched for reasons of ideological blindness and run with extreme incompetence

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24. ” The incompetence of neoconservatives in Iraq and elsewhere is a clear example of ideology ignoring basic facts on the ground

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25. Likely as president, that understanding comes by 1945 or 1946, much the same as Truman, but without Truman's fear mongering, incompetence, and ideological blindness

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26. Famine came mostly from Confederate government incompetence and Confederate army seizure of southern crops and animals

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27. So why weren't the Congo Wars included under Deaths by Incompetence? Because many officials in governments did make an effort to end the violence

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28. Obviously malice matters more than neglect, and neglect in turn more than incompetence

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29. Though the number of deaths Clinton ignored or caused by incompetence is more than double that of Polk or Fillmore, they did nothing good to mitigate their records

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30. Unknown number by incompetence and ideological blindness leading to the Cold War

31. World Health Organization and its support of abortion and its incompetence in ignoring DDT in trying

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32. It’s one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation’s incompetence

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33. The two goons shook their head at my incompetence

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34. First, Terry was completely in charge of all facets of the negotiation with Cerise Records and second, he hired these two clowns based on their level of incompetence

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35. ’s laziness and incompetence,” she said

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36. again, I have had it up to here with your incompetence, granted we are not the army so I am serving you a written warning instead,

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37. " It was professional incompetence or a cover-

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38. This may have been the genesis of Babbitt’s offer to hire me as an Attorney IV to clean up that ACC mess after the Republicans ALL were swept out of office in November 1974 elections (caused in part by Watergate and One Eyed Jack’s incompetence)

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39. The first lady reached her level of incompetence as SupShip Groton Counsel like the idiot in Pascagoula

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40. He had reached his level of incompetence and never left Ingalls in the ensuing 30 plus years

41. Word was no one in OGC wanted him in a true GS-15 billet due to his well known incompetence

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42. More incompetence —more waste of tax-payers dollars

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43. Boeing fired him for incompetence, and he has held and lost several jobs since then according to his LinkedIn page

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44. This go ‘round, I told the prosecution that I would not hire a private defense attorney for Mike; he would have to take “pot luck”, which is charitable considering how bad his Public Defender, against whom I filed a grievance for incompetence, turned out to be

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45. More than that, it began a policy, continuing today, to retain them even in the face of incompetence:

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46. It was, no doubt, a measure of his incompetence that he was not

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47. ‘Effectively losing a third of his army en route to the capitol! Most of his war machines unaccounted for! The incompetence of his decisions have rendered his command practically useless to Pharaoh!’

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48. to the capitol! Most of his war machines unaccounted for! The incompetence of his decisions

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49. ’ Barrad said, pointing to the corpse ‘I will not tolerate incompetence

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50. "I should throw you into the pits of Tartarus for your incompetence," the General said

51. professional careers ruined as a result of such incompetence

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52. To reject the physical as illusion would be to put your health at risk and suffer from incompetence at a practical level

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53. Zoroastro for his part, was shouting about Zarnia’s incompetence and pressing her to find the real volume

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54. He still was cleaning up the mess from the Valentine's case that slipped away from and left one city witness dead and almost stamped the department with an incompetence logo

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55. nor just that these individuals would have to suffer for the incompetence of the Ministries, but

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56. never tolerated incompetence so you better not hope this new administration drops the ball

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57. The MSD didn’t want a high turnover of staff as that would encourage incompetence, so they paid well and had good benefits

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58. Donald, in a rambling polemic, accused her of incompetence, bullying methods, having no control over her underlings and trying to ruin the local economy

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59. and now you have the audacity, the mental incompetence to call this gold nothing!”

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60. Suddenly I was raided again and it was only the AFP"s incompetence that saved my ass as there whole team searched my townhouse and missed all the big stashes

61. If the Veiled had been furious before due to Admiral Kraug’s incompetence, they were seeing red now

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62. I don’t think it comes forth out of incompetence, but maybe because she doubts about the intentions of the operations

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63. Given the density of the satellites, the fact that any of the probes got through indicated the incompetence of the interceptors

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64. He had to be the king of incompetence

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65. Since they like that time away so much, why not make the siesta for them a permanent thing? The number of bills passed in this Congress also confirms their incompetence

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66. incompetence on the part of managers as well as

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67. When Katrina hit, there was a conglomeration of incompetence and payoffs at the local, state and federal levels

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68. This is only another instance of rewarding incompetence

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69. In fact, both had led the way in their destruction through incompetence and greed

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70. You could say that they reached their level of incompetence and weren’t really concerned about the students

71. Of course, other factors can enter into the picture, such as control, incompetence and boring work, as I have already mentioned

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72. Let me just say that I saw a great deal of incompetence – that shouldn’t give you any clue to the company – followed by what I thought was a shady, if not illegal practice

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73. This deficit of organization means that there is disorganization, which naturally means that incompetence will result

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74. One of the last great examples of incompetence on the part of supervisors came about just recently with the Y2K problem

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75. The incompetence of these novices continues along with the hysterics

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76. Ingrid was furious at these sights, for many reasons: for the losses in lives and materiel that were bound to impact on the precious air bridge with the Philippines; for the stupidity and incompetence of many Australian and American officers in Darwin and, finally, for the fact that, after being officially at war for two years already, Australia was still so badly prepared and careless that Darwin could find itself under attack with no fighters or anti-aircraft guns, or even ground troops to defend such a strategically important location

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77. First, I exposed the corruption and incompetence of a couple of Russian generals during the wars in the Caucasus, something that made Moscow look quite bad

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78. In Ingrid’s mind, whoever in Washington had planned the logistical effort in support of the South Pacific campaign should have been shot for gross incompetence

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79. If the bait had not been taken after this show of incompetence it never would be

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80. impression of her because of the landlord’s incompetence or lack of

81. ridiculous incompetence and abject absurdity

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82. the true state of his own incompetence? When he finally

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83. I want fighting men, men who are proficient in combat, not civilians in uniform who flee at the first shot! At the rate things are going, we will lose this war through sheer incompetence and lack of fighting spirit

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84. Ingrid was frankly becoming frustrated to have to constantly risk the lives of her pilots in order to compensate for the tactical incompetence of too many Army commanders and for the flagrant lack of combativeness in the frontlines of many American soldiers

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85. We wish to be able to interview any military personnel of our choice in complete intimacy, in order to prevent any attempt at intimidation by senior officers who may want to hide instances of incompetence or negligence

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86. I would have skewered in a similar way a Republican president that would have shown the same level of incompetence concerning national security

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87. his apparent daftness or incompetence

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88. The alternative is dereliction of duty and gross incompetence at a very high level

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89. Delayed by ground staff incompetence; some of the Beauforts were armed with bombs and not torpedo's

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90. Temperatures had plunged to -30 degrees C, and due to Göring’s incompetence, hardly any winter clothing had arrived

91. But when the setbacks came; he accused the pilots of incompetence and cowardice, and had lost mastery of the air through their own fault

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92. And in that regard, common political leadership is guilty of egregious incompetence in dismissing the prospect for peace and understanding by declaring potential adversaries as unable to seek a greater good, and accepting animosity and war as inevitable

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93. There’s definitely dangers in campaigners that hide behind insecurity, for they’re hiding their own incompetence

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