They fought off a hard-nosed, offensively inept Pacers club and then a hard-nosed, offensively inept Heat club.
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When you lose a race that you should have won by being an inept phony, you can't call this year's front-runner an inept phony.
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The answer, probably, is the Dunning-Kruger effect: inept people are often confident in their abilities, because they're too inept to know how badly they're doing.
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Schur characters, after learning a lesson, reach their ultimate goals all while overcoming adversity (usually in the form of inept people or systems that are filled with inept people).
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Working alone from home can make you pretty socially inept.
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"I've never felt more inept [in] my life," he added.
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Dwight Eisenhower was old, linguistically inept, and a cultural philistine.
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Describe the Knicks any way you want. Disaster. Trainwreck. Inept.
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"This is an extraordinarily inept statement of policy," he said.
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They're housekeepers, janitors, or geniuses — socially inept or fundamentally stupid.
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To the world, our country looks weak, inept or both.
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Many Afghan troops were seen as inept or lazy or.
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And why were they so inept at this (incredibly inefficient) method?
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Falling cats, fetch-inept dogs, puppy problems: They are all here.
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The Avs are easily the most inept organization in the league.
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Trump is as inept at English as he is at governing.
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"Who looks corrupt and inept today as a result of this?"
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Was it an autocorrect error, or is he really that inept?
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Her inventions are clever, the robots intentionally excessive and comically inept.
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Inept politicians only call you when they need something—usually cash.
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It was a creepy moment, but it was also wonderfully inept.
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If that was his intent, it was a singularly inept effort.
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The science is extraordinary, but science communication has been unintentionally inept.
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Democrats asserted that FEMA was similarly inept preparing for this storm.
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Scott) as they battled the inept Slavic schemers Boris Badenov (Mr.
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The ambassador called Mr Trump's administration "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept".
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The cabinet members regarded as truly terrible were the non-inept ones.
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Machines have limitations, especially in that they are inept in social situations.
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Weak oil prices and inept management mean he cannot pay his bills.
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My boss—greedy and technically inept, though hardly malicious—saw an opportunity.
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When he tweets about corrupt, inept governments, we think about Donald Trump.
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"I've never felt more inept [in] my life," he added to Lowe.
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The NYT, which Trump called "totally inept" in a tweet earlier Monday.
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This isn't to say the CBO is dishonest, inept, or completely unreliable.
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Deep-seated structural problems remain, from an inept bureaucracy to bloated pensions.
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"We had been singularly inept in electing AGs in Kentucky," McConnell joked.
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Moore. Bannon the outsider was inept in his public appearances, for instance
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They are often perceived as selfish, spoiled, anxious, socially inept, and lonely.
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In the United States, those ways include slow, unclear, and somewhat inept.
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The manner of its termination has nevertheless proven inept and unnecessarily costly.
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The deplorable state of our public affairs, the inept running of government.
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The epidemic also showed that most nations remain inept at mosquito control.
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Deliberately inept painting, a visual form of camp, certainly has its pleasures.
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But patients also have to be protected from careless or inept physicians.
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The puppet court rejected the suit on June 12th, calling her application "inept".
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This does not mean that the inept or ignorant will not try them.
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By being such an inept criminal, Moore had given himself a way out.
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How did somebody so inept turn the Republican Party into something so obscene?
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" One Democratic aide described the company's contacts with lawmakers as "inept and entitled.
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Why send the money we earn to a bloated, corrupt, and inept government?
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It's no surprise that the American people think their government is completely inept.
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Gail: Yes, and let's also thank God that the bomber was so inept.
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You are so inept that your "best and brightest" are Cohen and Giuliani.
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At his best, the man is an inept boob offering only rancid arrogance.
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But these are outlandishly exaggerated examples of absent, dismissive, inept, or villainous fathers.
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Both books parade a cast of deceitful or inept bankers, brokers and regulators.
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Social-wise, millennials are some of the most inept people I've ever met.
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But he was an inept politician and he made his own mistakes, too.
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It is not true of Trump that he's harmless because he's so inept.
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And testing so far in the US has been painfully inept and sluggish.
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But holding inept beekeepers accountable for swarms is all but impossible, he added.
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For much of the first half Sunday, Seattle's offense was inept and bungling.
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The fact that Trump's DHS is inept doesn't mean it can't be cruel.
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The Safdies are as clever and crafty as Connie is inept and impulsive.
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In the absence of disability, a president may be inexperienced, indecisive or inept.
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"It's in the Chinese state's interest to portray democracies as inept," Ni said.
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The situation in the United States is this: The Republican party chose as its nominee an inept and obviously unfit candidate, and the American electorate chose that candidate over Hillary Rodham Clinton, an inept, corrupt, and obviously unfit candidate. Mrs.
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So far, most attempts to neutralize the Islamic State's media juggernaut have proven inept.
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But the Buffaloes were just as inept on the offensive side of the ball.
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Dig deeperLand reform in South Africa has been slow and inept (August 23rd 2018)
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And she is often as clueless and socially inept as people say millennials are.
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In one, he provides a shockingly inept lesson about the history of social media.
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But the drawbacks, in terms of inept and inconsistent policymaking, are beginning to tell.
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The state-owned electricity monopoly, whose 700 pylons came crashing down, is especially inept.
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Trump does not offer anything unusual but an unusually inept progression toward accepted conclusions.
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You have besmirched all horses as inept fighters under the guise of a compliment.
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My level of organization when it comes to travel documents is at most, inept.
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Trade-rumors, demands by stars, inept executives — Sports Illustrated has a good roundup here.
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We've left it to others — yes, Democrats — and they are inept and continual losers.
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In 2005, FEMA faced widespread criticism for what many considered a slow, inept response.
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Tillerson's bizarre Wednesday press conference was a characteristically inept attempt at staunching the bleeding.
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Socially Inept, a new traveling comedy cohort, is making a business out of it.
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But the sparkle wore off quickly when Palin began to look uninformed and inept.
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They have also described inept representation; one lawyer abandoned him during his appeals process.
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They have also described inept representation; one lawyer abandoned him during his appeals process.
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A new generation is growing up, being technologically adept and socially inept, generally speaking.
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"This was the most astonishingly inept diplomatic initiative I have ever seen," Galbraith said.
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The one thing we don't talk about is how inept many gun owners are.
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I thought I was the only one in the world so inept at dating.
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The good news is that this crowd is so inept it might not work.
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America's inept response to the AIDS epidemic gave us Act Up and Larry Kramer.
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We've left it to others - yes, Democrats - and they are inept and continual losers.
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Eastern Europe is not the only arena where the American agenda has proved inept.
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From the start, the Trump administration was a dark combination of mean and inept.
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Critics blame inept governance, while Maduro says an "economic war" is behind the problems.
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NBC's coordination of Wednesday's Democratic debate in Las Vegas was unfocused and largely inept.
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This is because of historical abuse, theft, inept interpretation and misunderstanding based on stereotypes.
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The FBI has great and honorable people, but the leadership was inept and corrupt.
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It cannot continue: you can either save the majorities in Congress or inept leadership.
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Several episodes feature inept husbands inexplicably surprised by the misery of their overburdened wives.
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I had done this to myself; playing the inept dad stereotype to the hilt.
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Clinton's 2008 campaign was rocked with drama that made the campaign look inept and disorganized.
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"I think the government has been extremely inept and inefficient regarding the statistics," Sanz said.
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And his team has been ineffective and, by many accounts, utterly inept in handling it.
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Don't shame women into feeling inept because we don't want to choke on your dick.
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Besides, because index funds probably displace the most inept stockpickers, the market becomes more efficient.
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The polished Trump is simply an amateur politician, and a rather inept one at that.
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The western powers —France, Britain, US, NATO—appear incredibly inept the way you describe them.
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In Davao City, he helped lure investors, dramatically cut red tape and fired inept officials.
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To my vast, inept surprise, I found that moving and sweating made me feel better.
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Chances are good that you're not nearly as socially inept as you believe you are.
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" Reportedly, Reagan's staff also contemplated using Section 4, because "Reagan was 'inattentive,' 'inept' and 'lazy.
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Critics describe it as the latest symbol of inept nation building in America's longest war.
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Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has been hammering her as inept as well.
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In 2015, South Africans staged large protests against Zuma's Administration, calling it inept and corrupt.
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First, public schools are woefully inept and incapable of educating and keeping America's children safe.
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Trump's an autocrat all right, but the silver lining is that he's an inept one.
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But considering Trump's habit of really inept and transparent distraction attempts, anything's on the table.
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At their shows, Socially Inept taps local comedic talent to roast willing local tech workers.
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The spoils system, as they called it, had filled the Civil Service with inept employees.
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A lot happens, none of it memorable except perhaps to dedicated fans of inept musicals.
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You can be as socially inept as Prince Harry and still get served in Nando's.
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The staging and shooting is so inept it makes Coleman Francis look like Jim Jarmusch.
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Trump's thoroughly inept handling of this crisis will not pass from the American memory easily.
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And the sharks — not the adorably inept Left Shark at the Super Bowl — started circling.
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Like many things in the world of Trump, the event was both corrupt and inept.
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And its air defences seem to be just as inept at fending off conventional threats.
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Instead, Mr. Mulvaney again flubbed his lines, making himself look even more inept and dishonest.
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Mr. Feldman is far from alone in feeling inept when it comes to home repair.
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He criticized the president's "chest-thumping" and called him inept at global and domestic leadership.
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The currency-cancelling and inept tax changes of Narendra Modi's Indian government are good examples.
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His apparent attempts to frame his former girlfriend for the bomb threats were similarly inept.
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As PREPA's inept actions have shown, cleaning up Puerto Rico's electricity crisis won't be easy.
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He was a smart kid and a talented pianist, but shy, overweight and socially inept.
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" The Pirate Party's Smári McCarthy goes so far as to question the competence of Auroracoin's development team: "A community with one unstable currency operated by inept people is not a community that is in sore need of another unstable currency operated by inept people.
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His cabinet members and other appointments have been often inept, many of them just seriously inexperienced.
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While most newborn mammals are pretty inept, human babies are especially dependent on others to survive.
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In the film's plot, a socially inept meat inspector, Mária (Alexandra Borbély), arrives at an abattoir.
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However, as home-affairs minister, she was credited with making her ministry less corrupt and inept.
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"It's kinda amazing how a billion-dollar company can be so inept at leadership," Kjellberg says.
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Germans wrote of noble failure, of brave soldiers betrayed by a cynical or inept high command.
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To get South Africa working again, crooked and inept backsides must be removed from powerful seats.
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The opposition says Maduro is an inept autocrat who must leave office before the crisis worsens.
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To foreign observers, this may seem like an act of self-sabotage from an inept politician.
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GLENN KENNY "Masterminds" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned) for language and inept criminal themes.
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But what the economy can't afford is the current inept tax system, slow growth and Mrs.
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Will they be something like Sheldon, the socially inept character on CBS's "The Big Bang Theory"?
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But this year, she is running against the most inept, unqualified, ill-equipped, abrasive candidate imaginable.
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Like Berkshire's comically inept website, the bare-bones home office is in part a philosophical statement.
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Not so the speaker at Billion Dollar Marijuana Market Sara Gullickson, whose bullshit was hilariously inept.
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They have had jobs snatched away by bad federal policy, their opportunities stolen by inept politicians.
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Much of "Path of Blood" makes these extremists, who sought to destabilize Saudi Arabia, look inept.
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Actually, Mr. Sorrell swears he is so mechanically inept that he cannot change a light bulb.
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Its health care system is decentralized, inept in places and bad at tracking children's medical records.
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And Mr. Trump, despite his reckless attacks on democratic norms, is a weak and inept leader.
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The best intentions, however, can be broken on the wheel of skillful (or even inept) interviewing.
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They were admittedly inept at social media and at building websites a search engine could locate.
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How government is so inept and so dysfunctional that they don't care about the local community.
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An inept campaign saw May promising "strong and stable" government so often it became a joke.
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Like this is just what George did: caused pain he was too inept to deal with.
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"Most of that work was rapidly undone, because of corruption and inept leadership," says Maj. Gen.
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As constituted, the Financial Control Board is simply too conflicted and inept to oversee recovery efforts.
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"I am really starting to think you are inept," Shkreli fumed in his email to Greebel.
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It also demonstrates, once again, how inept Trump is at knowing what is best for himself.
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He added the trial will reveal "negligence and inept investigation" by the RCMP, The Canadian Press reported.
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They described the White House as "dysfunctional", "clumsy" and "inept", and its occupant as "radiat[ing] insecurity".
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The denial of Native rights begins with the representation of Native people as absent, mythical, and inept.
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She's not "comically inept," she's a freaking Terminator who happens to be bested by some uppity kids.
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Instead of blaming an inept socialist system, they fault the US embargo for the country's economic woes.
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They served to supplement Gotham's inept police and fire departments, and even ran — and won — an election.
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Trump has accused "inept politicians" in Puerto Rico of using disaster relief money to repay their debts.
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Research by Pew shows people are spectacularly inept at distinguishing real news outlets from their manipulated doppelgängers.
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But as attendees found out, it had been comically poorly organized by a bunch of inept bros.
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The Islamists have been joined by liberals, who quickly soured on Mr Sisi's inept and draconian rule.
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Back then, people were left to their own devices in the face of an inept government response.
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Some will conclude that it is her fault, as a singularly inept prime minister and poor negotiator.
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When the next regime proved to be also corrupt and inept, people simply became passive and uninterested.
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Instead, it's an exploration of a medical system that allowed a clearly inept surgeon to continue operating.
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HBO has a new comedy coming up about a totally inept, confused, and corrupt family of televangelists.
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The fact that they didn't makes them come off as socially inept at best, sociopathic at worst.
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From Syria, Naim financed an ultimately unsuccessful, inept attempt at a series of bomb attacks in Solo.
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But enough advertising today is already manipulative and misleading, albeit in a grossly inept kind of way.
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The former British ambassador to Washington called his administration dysfunctional, unpredictable, faction-riven, diplomatically clumsy and inept.
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They [the White House] seem panicked and they are operating in such an inept and dishonest way.
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"The Endangered Species Act is the most inept program we have in the federal government," said Rep.
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Clinton went into the New Hampshire debate still smarting from her surprisingly inept performance at the Nov.
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It's a bright red flare revealing the White House ethics office to be either inept or indifferent.
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The Mets have sputtered for months, propped up by their pitching yet undermined by their inept offense.
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Get To Work: With Suzy Welch If you think your boss is inept, you're certainly not alone.
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No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America.
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As a community and an industry, we've pointed and laughed at how inept IT was at security.
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And yet the Hornets are enjoying a historically successful year, at least by their historically inept standards.
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" Unfortunately, he continued, "[M]ost bodies are really inept at getting the juice out of the plant.
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It's ironic that an administration so money-centric has so many inept cabinet members handling financial policy.
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Shady, Kremlin-appointed bureaucrats are proving to be just as corrupt and inept as their Ukrainian predecessors.
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What's most remarkable is that it took two directors to yield a work this turgid and inept.
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Seldom has an administration operated in such a transparently dishonest, determinedly self-destructive and spectacularly inept fashion.
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It clearly amused Reeves to depict modern Transylvania as a shabby police state ruled by inept policemen.
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Mr. Peruto said that his client initially confessed to killing Mr. Finocchiaro because of "inept" legal advice.
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Charles is a clinician who is inept at self-analysis and pretty ineffectual at most everything else.
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Initially a rather inept caregiver, Bridget gradually warms to her lively charge and her stressed-out employers.
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But they're not going to do it because the parties are so pathetic and inept and weak.
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"You can't have inept people leaving weapons in a lavatory," said Craig Sawyer, a former air marshal.
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"It started with the decision that this community was inept and unable to govern itself," she said.
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MS-13 members turned out to be inept at drug smuggling and resistant to the whole idea.
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And there has, of course, been plenty of coverage of Sweetbitter that never mentions Claudia Herr's inept quote.
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But inept generals ruling in the name of a little-loved king is hardly a formula for stability.
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To compound the injury, the lawyer handling Mr Buck's appeal tarried in filing a claim of inept representation.
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Maybe that involves doing their best to make you look inept in front of a customer or client.
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It was an exhibition of Trump-style reality denial without the showmanship, as inept as it was cynical.
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Peter Kafka: Very much in the hearings, and how comically inept some of those questions seemed to be.
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For the socially anxious, or even just the socially inept, New Year's Eve is a historically tough holiday.
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In the first seven months of his presidency, he has proven to be pretty much inept at everything.
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The FBI's handling of FOIA requests at times can be described as grossly inept, if not downright absurd.
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The main danger for a clearing house is that its management is inept or subject to special interests.
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The government's communications have been inept, and some Muslim leaders depressingly unwilling to accept responsibility for fighting terrorism.
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After five years of inept rule by Ms Rousseff, Brazil is suffering its worst recession since the 1930s.
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Far from leading a chaotic or inept government, Orban successfully went about the business of destroying Hungarian democracy.
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Whether a medical judgment is optimistic or pessimistic, its inept conveyance can upset or infuriate already anxious patients.
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Inept offenses have plagued San Francisco and Philadelphia, which have lost three and four in a row, respectively.
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This inept process has created a back door into the United States, and the world has taken notice.
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Here is an administration both nefarious and inept, combining an absence of compassion with a thickness of tongue.
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Countless examples demonstrate the efficacy of community empowerment to resist the caustic forces of corrupt and inept governments.
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I have tried meditating regularly probably a half a dozen times, and I'm just completely inept at it.
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The series is about an assortment of inept superheroes, and in the Christmas special, which begins streaming Dec.
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That sort of productivity seemed like a distant memory after Prescott's inept play against Carolina in Week 20.
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As a politician, not a saint, it must be said that Aung San Suu Kyi has proved inept.
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Animation, the creative studio behind Area Daddy, a popular video series about a social media-inept father figure.
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Reid lambasted Grassley as an inept chairman, though Grassley told Iowa reporters he cared little about Reid's criticisms.
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They complain that the boards are more interested in keeping out competition than protecting consumers against inept practitioners.
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On one side is President Nicolás Maduro, whose socialist government is seen as increasingly corrupt, inept and repressive.
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It is a vital part of people's lives, and when it's missing they can feel aimless and inept.
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Still, it's reassuring to know that your political enemies are even more inept than the ones in your cabinet.
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He pointed directly to a certain inept leader's IRL comments about "many sides" and wondered aloud at HBO's timing.
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But of course Margot has probably never worked out a day in her life, and Lily is socially inept.
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Perhaps our respondents have decided that Ross, for all his awfulness, also is too inept to pose much trouble.
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Turnbull called Joyce's affair a "shocking error of judgment" last week, to which Joyce responded by calling Turnbull "inept".
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Add in a clearly inept team at, we assume, Edelman, and you have a perfect storm of corporate idiocy.
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And companies as well as people can be trapped into doing business with monopolies that are inept or shifty.
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Otherwise, you're making everyone wish they worked somewhere else because management is too inept to handle touchy subjects effectively.
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But three seasons later, Silicon Valley is still a show about a tiny startup and its socially inept creator.
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Again, in its rebuttal, Facebook rejects that characterization — claiming a less inept early handling of the political disinformation threat.
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A bizarre incident earlier this month shows how easy it is for an inept president to tarnish America's reputation.
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Nunes's inept handling of the investigation had become a distraction, and now steadier hands seem to be in control.
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There is little love on the Supreme Court for the race-baiting witness, nor for Mr Buck's inept lawyer.
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The point is, I know what it's like to have a hairstyle-inept parent, and clearly I'm not alone.
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That the big problem is lack of gun availability, not gun owners who are sloppy, inept and occasionally psychotic.
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The contestants are happily inept, and their creations will make you feel proud of even a minor kitchen accomplishment.
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Democrats immediately attacked Mr. Kemp as an inept public official whose policies would jeopardize the state's business-friendly reputation.
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In this account, partly based on Fourcade's own memoirs, Pétain's agents often come off as Inspector Clouseau–ishly inept.
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In late October, the president, Maithripala Sirisena, abruptly sacked the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, calling him inept and corrupt.
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He most often played likable but socially inept characters, and usually ranked fairly far down on the cast list.
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Turnbull called Joyce's affair a "shocking error of judgment" last week, to which Joyce responded by calling Turnbull "inept."
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"We were just inept on offense, making mistakes that we can't make to consistently move the ball," Gase said.
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Trump didn't cover up a second-rate burglary by a group of inept 'plumbers' looking for dirt on Democrats.
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Trump didn't cover up a second-rate burglary by a group of inept "plumbers" looking for dirt on Democrats.
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Most notorious of all, an inept first baseman, Marv Throneberry, was extolled as the symbol of the bumbling present.
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Instead, it makes him look like a petulant, inept fool who lacks the strength of character to take responsibility.
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I am completely certain that Alderman Pawar and his inept counterparts in Chicago's City Council don't have the answers either.
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Regarded as awkward and inept, as a young boy he was teased by other children and chided by his father.
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George's Bar pays homage to Seinfeld character George Costanza: prince of the under-achievers and chief of the socially inept.
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Content filters were hilariously inept and at least one of you assuredly watched porn on some 1990s-era Gateway tower.
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"The Biden campaign continues to be inept with a deeply flawed candidate," deputy communications director Erin Perrine told the network.
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Far from being the saviour of the Republic, their president is politically inept, morally barren, and temperamentally unfit for office.
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" Overall, Darroch described the president as "clumsy and inept," and wrote, "I don't think this Administration will ever look competent.
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The Hogwarts Express Witch is comically inept and Hermione's daughter Rose is a boring stereotype of a popular teenage girl.
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It's a book every founder should read, if only to learn how inept most big companies we admire really are.
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Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and does not expect that to change.
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Sir Kim describes the Trump administration as "dysfunctional" and "diplomatically clumsy and inept", and did not expect that to change.
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Yet the country's problems, exacerbated as they are by predatory and inept leaders, have provided inspiration for generations of lyricists.
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White House President Trump struck back at the UK diplomat who called him "inept" and "clumsy" in leaked diplomatic cables.
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And the West is hardly innocent; the biggest regional debacle until recent years was America's spectacularly inept occupation of Iraq.
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This does at least make him a sympathetic figure (unlike the pair of inept presidents who followed, Pierce and Buchanan).
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Forcing apathetic voters into polling stations might mean a more uninformed electorate, which protects inept politicians and rewards inflammatory ones.
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Guards say they have no opportunity to rise within the museum hierarchy, which in turn protects inept managers and supervisors.
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BILL BERRY New York To the Editor: Lester Holt was totally inept in his handling of the first presidential debate.
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Whether they were corrupt or inept, whether they knew or whether they didn't know, the questions seem important to answer.
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In recent seasons, the Giants struggled to force turnovers and were inept offensively once they neared an opponent's goal line.
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More war is the solution, not the corruption and human rights violations that incite people to battle their inept governments.
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One was when Dany half-accused Tyrion, an apparently inept military commander, of destroying her army to help the Lannisters.
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Missing are the sort of inept policemen who in Aram Avakian's Cops and Robbers hit on a scheme to rip
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Stop parroting the president's line that the federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies are politically motivated, inept and generally corrupt.
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On the plus side, our current president is so inept at insulting that his third-grade sexism is almost liberating.
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Our country is plagued not just by corruption, but by an inept and partisan public service that is too bloated.
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"They have the power, regardless of my service and full payments, to make me look inept," he told me then.
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It's one of the many parts of the presidency in which Donald Trump often seems either uninterested or comically inept.
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Cat-and-mouse games are played throughout Paris's gray labyrinth, with Maigret's most inept associate stumbling across the crucial clue.
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But he dismisses most of their officers as inept careerists with scant regard for the hardships faced by their troops.
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But with no room for error because of the Mets' inept offense, one mistake by deGrom can mean the game.
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In the face of an inept and weak opposition, Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party continues to command significant support.
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I call Donald Trump an "entertainer president" advisedly since he has proved himself to be such an inept public servant.
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The robot did laps around its inept human counterparts by autonomously assembling an Ikea chair in less than nine minutes.
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And as it turns out, many of those with the most to lose are woefully inept at safeguarding their privacy.
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The government began imploding in October last year, when Mr. Sirisena abruptly fired Mr. Wickremesinghe, calling him inept and corrupt.
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Sure, we could sit back and complain about how inefficient, corrupt, and inept government has become – but that's nothing new.
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The actor plays Trump as an inept, corrupt leader on "Saturday Night Live," earning criticism from multiple White House officials.
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By the time we got to the airport, I had reverted to an embarrassingly naïve and inept version of myself.
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Critics blame inept management and maintenance, too, saying that has also impacted Venezuela's cash cow, state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL].
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Manuel shared some traits with Jacques Clouseau, the inept French inspector portrayed by Peter Sellers in the "Pink Panther" movies.
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There, they are tended by a spectacularly inept shrink, Dr. Staple (Sarah Paulson), who insists that they are merely delusional.
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Despite this, general consensus on the team is that I'm pitifully inept and a complete hindrance when we play competitively.
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In May 1978, a California appeals court overturned the conviction, declaring that Mr. Corona's defense had been inept and compromised.
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After indicating that Mueller was derelict and misguided, Barr went ahead and belittled him and his dream team as inept.
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The blackouts are attributed to Maduro's inept leadership, corruption, inattention to his people, and lack of concern for any humanity.
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A combination of Oregon defense and inept Washington offense served as the prime storylines of a low-scoring, physical first half.
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The post-disaster autopsy pointed to many causes, including inept political appointees at the helm of agencies with life-saving responsibilities.
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For a company so deeply committed to collecting and analyzing information, the company has been historically inept at deciphering the data.
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It matters more that his corrupt, violent and inept regime has bankrupted a country blessed (or cursed) with vast oil wealth.
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The insult was provoked by prosecutors' inept handling of investigations into the murders last year of several women in La Paz.
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That's what the Italian Prime Minister's Matteo Renzi calls the "Titanic orchestra" – a metaphor for confusion and an inept Brussels bureaucracy.
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Still, a technically inept cameraphone can't make it on the DxOMark top list, even if the benchmark sometimes misses important downsides.
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I don't know when a tomato is grown, I don't know how to build, I feel so inept as a man.
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The F.B.I. agents whom Egan consulted had told her that the average terrorist was likely to be young, callow, fairly inept.
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"Newsflash: Republicans lost the House because of inept leadership by establishment folks like former Speaker Ryan and Leader McCarthy," it added.
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"He added: "Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America?
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Read more: 'Are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that Turkey forced the hand of the United States of America?
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Darroch reportedly described Trump as "incompetent" and "inept" in memos and notes sent to the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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But, in the end, there's no one to blame for her loss other than her inept campaign and the candidate herself.
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But Trump painted him as "low energy" and defined him as inept, a characterization Bush's money was never able to overcome.
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These service members were described en masse as corrupt and inept in some episodes, then valiant and strong in other episodes.
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It is nothing so much as a series of pratfalls by inept leaders and the suckers who follow them toward doom.
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The stopgap move cost residents their clean water, and highlighted an inept and callous local government that ignored local residents' concerns.
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Outwardly, the two men could not have been more different: Johnson could talk circles around anyone, and Trump is verbally inept.
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Connie, a calamitously inept bad guy who, during one terrible New York adventure, leaves ruin and broken bodies in his wake.
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At the time, Omar accused Trump of "stoking white nationalism" with his remarks while also blasting him as corrupt and inept.
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Research shows that if you feel inept at your workout or set unrealistic goals, you will be more likely to quit.
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"The real criminals of the world are our inept power-crazed politicians, and the big businesses that rule them," he says.
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Today it has turned into a symbol of the decay brought about by an inept government, organized crime and economic crisis.
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Former British Prime Minister Theresa MayTheresa Mary MayBudowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat Mark Ruffalo dismisses Boris Johnson's comparisons to the Hulk: 'The Hulk only fights for the good of the whole' Queen Elizabeth to honor ex-British ambassador who called Trump 'inept' MORE recommended the ex-British ambassador who called President Trump "inept" become a lord.
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But it&aposs, you know, it&aposs possible that our federal government is large and slow and inept, but not necessarily evil.
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Women get a lot of shit for the way we're perceived to handle competition, but what men do is immeasurably more inept.
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So instead of slick, criminal lovers, we've got two socially inept teens who feel too dead inside to care about the world.
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" For the uninitiated, Wikipedia says a jagoff "is an American English derogatory slang term ... meaning a person who is stupid or inept.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Grassley could go down as both inept and the "most obstructionist" Judiciary Committee chairman in history.
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Context: Darroch described Trump's administration as "inept" and "incompetent" in private memos back to London that leaked to the Mail on Sunday.
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But the Houthis felt disenfranchised, and in late 2014 stormed Sana'a, to the relief of many frustrated with Mr Hadi's inept rule.
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They're rarely more than a shorthand: bully victims, the romantically inept, people who are good at uncool stuff like math or piano.
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Yet until the labour market is reformed, so that firms can fire surplus or inept workers, they will be reluctant to hire.
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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008 may have been one of the first (perhaps not coincidentally, that campaign was inept and fractious).
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More war is the solution, not attempts to resolve corruption and human rights violations that incite people to battle their inept governments.
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To see how things should be but to be constantly thwarted and attacked by corrupt senators, inept generals, corporations, rubes, and fools.
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The car industry is adept at assembling large vehicles, but inept when it comes to constructing the companies that actually make them.
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In 22014 Mr Mugabe's inept and murderous regime printed so much money that inflation topped 22009 billion per cent at its peak.
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Government critics say inept management of Venezuela's oil industry, home to the world's biggest crude reserves, is to blame for the shortages.
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Meanwhile, many on the left came to her defense: The remark might have been politically inept, many said, but it was true.
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Inept though the Clinton campaign was, she likely would have inherited the status quo map and hung on against an establishment Republican.
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Yeah, he's dumb LIKE A FOX, according to one theory: "Ryan couldn't possibly be this inept," wrote Scott Lemieux in the Week.
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They were so inept, defense lawyers argued, that they had used the book "Forensics for Dummies" to help prepare for their crime.
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Don't get too offended, though—the brunch staff is often the most inept band of swines that the establishment can muster, too.
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Our culture is inept at nurture and care, terrified of vulnerability and softness—all things that are squarely in the femme's handbag.
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It's an exclusive club of badness to which only the Lions belong (sorry, Buccaneers, but 0-14 just isn't quite as inept).
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Many New Yorkers view the authority, the nation's largest transit agency, which oversees more than 70,000 employees, as inept — if not corrupt.
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Defensively the team was not sharp and offensively it was inept, stranding runners at third base in the fifth and seventh innings.
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Often, what they see in their workplaces is low salaries, inept management and poor communication — ills that plague many workplaces across America.
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Mr. Sirisena has said he definitely does not want to go back to Mr. Wickremesinghe, whom he has called inept and corrupt.
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We understand that Democratic candidates will receive little or no support from national organizations, and that the state party organization is inept.
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It means that a father who loves his daughter can be self-absorbed, insensitive, hot-tempered, and inept in communicating with her.
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The victory came as no surprise to the Jets, who viewed the Colts as inept after watching films of their earlier games.
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The state is likely to flip a Senate seat, bouncing the inept Republican Cory Gardner for a popular former governor, John Hickenlooper.
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Fourteen-year-old Jaime is an Angler, or fisherman, and his fear of the open ocean makes him inept at his job.
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In every episode, Mr. Davis, or an obnoxious, inept version of himself, talks to a friend in a laundromat about washing clothes.
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She succeeds Kim Darroch, who resigned after his candid assessment of the Trump administration as diplomatically "clumsy and inept" caused an uproar.
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The Trump Administration may be the decade's defining example of an inept yet destructively shady organization, a gang that can't shoot straight.
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Wang adds that this lack of understanding demonstrates how inept AI programs are at truly understanding the world the way humans do.
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He called the attempt to restructure the health care system so inept he was unsure Republicans were ever determined to pass it.
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In Congress, the Republicans have proved to be surprisingly inept leading a unified government and have failed to make any legislative progress.
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The administration ended up highlighting the growing rifts between the US and its closest allies, and ultimately walked away looking diplomatically inept.
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The bad guys, frankly, alternately prove nasty and inept, and the build-up spends a bit too much time on CW-esque shenanigans.
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"Her man," Larry, is so inept, he couldn't even protect Darlene from a john turning the young woman into an unwilling porn actress.
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Also, Bob Odenkirk (who plays Saul Goodman in "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul") has a great supporting role as an inept cop.
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That is probably also still true of the second group of his critics: those appalled by his inept response to clerical sex abuse.
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The extraordinary thing is not how successful the promotion of China's values to the outside world has been, but how clumsy and inept.
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So she submits to Robert and his inept slobbering (much of it seemingly inspired by pornography) mostly to avoid seeming "spoiled and capricious".
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I thought their 63 team was baseball's best, at least until the previously just-as-inept New York Mets made mincemeat of them.
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What follows is a glimpse into the confusing, often contradictory thinking of one of the most powerful and frequently inept companies on Earth.
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Strike Gently Co. Before neckbeards started pretending that memes had gravity in national affairs, they were things we made as socially inept teenagers.
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Section 4 is a nice thought, and an important provision to highlight theoretically insofar as it underscores the untenability of an inept president.
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The bullying was a fairly effective homage to Trump, but in his other attempts to copy his employer, Cohen proved to be inept.
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And if we have somebody in the Oval Office who is unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical — we really have rough waters ahead.
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Anonymous's conclusion that the president is running perhaps the most inept and dysfunctional White House in history will vex and bother Mr. Trump.
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But government can be slow, inept and profligate just as private developers can rake in tax breaks without always delivering on promised benefits.
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Instead of hiring more staff, my manager decided to take it all out on me, calling me inept, an idiot, yada, yada, yada.
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Many people have misconceptions about online dating, from it being only for the socially inept to there being an extreme stigma around it.
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We tell annoying relatives we enjoyed their visits, thank inept waiters for rotten service, and agree with bosses who we know are wrong.
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Silicon Valley gives you the impression that small companies like Pied Piper are mostly capable while big companies like Hooli are mostly inept.
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His assist for Ramsey's opening goal was nothing short of delicious; a knife through the warm, salty butter of Russia's inept back four.
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For me, the worst part of being sick is this recurring realization that, when it comes to being an adult, I'm tragically inept.
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He dodges past one more inept assailant, before forward flipping over the final barrier and into the welcoming embrace of the soft grass.
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Donald Trump is getting hammered by millions of dollars in Democratic campaign ads depicting his response to the coronavirus as negligent and inept.
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While Harding was a totally inept chief executive whose administration launched a thousand scandals, everyone always said he was privately a nice guy.
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Mr. Stiers joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 22017, when Larry Linville, who had played the pompous and inept Maj.
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The operatives surrounding Joseph Stalin in 1953 turn out to be just the sort of inept, backbiting sycophants that populate Iannucci's other comedies.
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"It's so infuriating to watch," the 32-year-old Brit says of the inept pols on both sides of the Groundhog Day battle.
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That worked against the offensively inept Ticos, but if they try for 45 minutes here it seems inevitable Switzerland will grab a goal.
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But the U.S. State Department gives a pretty good indicator of just how inept, feckless, and stupid its leadership is in this crisis.
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Mr. Stone is an inept interviewer, and he does not get Mr. Putin to say anything the world hasn't heard from him before.
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India, for Cobden, was a "country we do not know how to govern," and Indians were justified in rebelling against an inept despotism.
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" They warn that "left on its own, the fractured, inept Afghan government likely won't be able to turn the tide against the Taliban.
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If only Shimon Peres, Rabin's successor, had not proved so inept, squandering an enormous lead to allow Netanyahu to win the 1996 election.
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There is unemployment, corruption, inept government, demographic strain, sectarianism, racial tension, regional rivalry, rampant crime, religious radicalization, resource depletion, the list goes on.
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If he's demonstrably inept at recognizing faces, the public might wonder whether he should still be deployed, with a gun, on the street.
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The testing roll-out for the disease in the United States and numerous other countries has been woefully slow and almost entirely inept.
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Duval argued that postponing the elections again, and failing to overhaul Haiti's "weak and inept" institutions, would only hamper recovery from the hurricane.
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Sadly, Snyder is an inept billionaire with a barely functioning franchise and a quarterback taking his money one mediocre year at a time.
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I read Wilson's book in part to learn if the media's depiction of him as being "socially inept," unfiltered, and arrogant was unfair.
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Sometimes I think she's a riot, other times not—bragging that your "lyric's spreading, like it's some cancer" is as inept as similes get.
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The film also stars Kyra Sedgwick as her good-intentioned but ultimately inept mother, and Woody Harrelson, as her history teacher and reluctant confidante.
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"There is a fundamental element within the Yupiit School District so inept and flawed as to warrant extreme action," he wrote in his letter.
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The power shortage in Iraq sparked protests in Basra and other cities, as people blamed what they called an inept and corrupt Iraqi government.
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But the real reason is that Zambia is run by an inept and venal elite who used easy credit to line their own pockets.
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It's even more fitting that every institution, from the police to Meyers' doctor, prove completely inept at stopping him or helping the Strode women.
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Others who panned the EU's inept handling of both the euro and the refugee crises now behave as if it were a faultless paragon.
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The 2014 coup that ousted her government followed months of street protests in Bangkok against politicians Thaksin-deploring urbanites saw as inept and corrupt.
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Abed's television show, Shabaka-e-Khanda ("Laughter Network") mocks everything from corruption to powerful politicians and inept officials and is popular with many Afghans.
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But the floor has two halves, and the Cavaliers made the Atlanta offense look almost comically inept for much of last year's conference finals.
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Orlando needs him as a creator though, and he serves as a get out of jail free card at times for Orlando's inept offense.
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Unfortunately, a quartet of conveniently inept thieves have set their sights on the place, hoping to abscond with a mountain of cash hidden therein.
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But piles of Wall Street money couldn't save Mr. Bush, who proved to be a startlingly inept candidate ill suited for the Trump era.
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Wharton and other members of the society believed that Mr. Haines was at least inept, if not corrupt, in his management of the agency.
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The only major fighting inside Germany, in the war's opening weeks, had ended in a spectacular rout of Tsar Nicholas II's inept invading troops.
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The inept response of the Italian authorities to the very real problems facing Venice gives little hope that this situation will change anytime soon.
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"No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America," Omar wrote in a tweet on Saturday.
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Yes, but: There are rumblings in New Hampshire that Levi's campaign is widely seen as inept and likely to lose, per The Boston Globe.
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You can be an inept possession team like the 2014-15 Calgary Flames, who lucked their way to the second round of the postseason.
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But three years ago, a judge, ruling that he had been denied a fair trial because of an inept defense, threw out the conviction.
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Having Kirk Cousins and the Redskins' offense carve up the inept Cleveland defense seems too simple with the way this season has been going.
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Shanghaiist reports that two restaurants in Guangzhou were forced to close after their inept robot waiters couldn't perform the tasks required to serve guests.
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You know, cut to a year later, the folks at Gawker/Gizmodo are writing really savage pieces about how inept their owners are. Yeah.
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The larger point is that successive peace process efforts have failed not because of avoidable misunderstandings, inept negotiating tactics, diplomatic blunders or bad luck.
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And, indeed, many Trump-era efforts to court black voters have been so crass and inept as to seem more like trolling than electioneering.
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Fathers should not get extra credit for equal parenting, nor should the assumption be that they are inept bumblers who cannot go it alone.
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Public opposition to the czarist government's inept handling of the world war had forced Nicholas II to give up his throne in early 21918.
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"The failing New York Times, which has made every wrong prediction about me including my big election win (apologized), is totally inept!" http://bit.
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"The Safdies are as clever and crafty as Connie is inept and impulsive," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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Everyone knows someone extremely verbal and eloquent but socially inept, or someone intuitively at ease in almost every social situation but inarticulate beyond that.
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Suicide Squad is a dull, inept mess — a charmless and incoherent muddle of a film that left me rooting only for it to end.
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But Washington was completely inept offensively, canning only 25 percent of its field-goal tries and going 249 of 224 from the 28-point line.
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The opposition scoffs that an inept government blames Maduro critics as a smokescreen for rampant crime and lack of maintenance that have Venezuela's infrastructure creaking.
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"It's also a time to yell "out with Pena" because it's a terrible government, inept, we should not have to prop him up," she said.
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Since Candace is in her fourth year of medical school, it's more than likely she would have also realized how inept her recording process is.
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Before anyone starts thinking that Gutierrez is some inept prankster, it should be noted that e-cigarettes do have a habit of meeting explosive demises.
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It's also a political critique of Americans who invade other countries without regard for the locals, and the inept bureaucracies that make every problem worse.
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On policy, then, Obama has been a remarkable doer, though you wouldn't know it from the curiously inept self-promotional apparatus of his White House.
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"People of Andhra Pradesh have now realized that the TDP is resorting to lies to cover up its inept governance," said BJP spokesman G.V.L.N. Rao.
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So while we might not be creating HAL with a self-preserving intelligence, an "inept AI attached to deadly weapons can easily kill," he says.
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And how can a government that is so inept as to need recasting be trusted to avoid the Orwellian possibilities of a billion-strong database?
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But is it good enough to make a getaway car for four inept bank robbers who parked their original getaway ride in a tow zone?
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Darroch quit after Donald Trump labelled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the leaking of the memos in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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Like Trump, Andrew Jackson was a populist wrecking ball who set out to upend a Washington establishment that considered him a crude and inept barbarian.
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Hardy dismissed exposition as "work for second-rate minds," but such activity is critical for a field notoriously inept at communicating its results to outsiders.
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" Variety dismissed the film, also released in 1963, as a "totally inept shocker" and "an insult even to the most puerile and salacious of audiences.
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" A disgusting sexual encounter is described as a "wet dream without the dream," in which the inept paramour wears a condom "like a third sock.
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In fact, judging from 10 years of Trump's taxes, he may be even more inept at making money than he is at governing the nation.
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Lasdun's oeuvre, which includes the novels The Horned Man, Seven Lies, and The Fall Guy, is remarkably consistent in its themes: paranoia, inept masculinity, stalking.
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Joyce has refused to resign from office, hitting out at critics, including Turnbull, whom he accused of causing further harm with "inept" comments on Friday.
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Then there's Minnesota, an inept organization who mangled every step of the team-building process but ended up with Karl Anthony-Towns through dumb luck.
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If you're dumb enough to lock yourself out of the phone by changing the password, you're too inept to be trusted with an encryption key.
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EditorsNote: Fixes spelling of Khalil Mack, adds detail; rewrite The Chicago Bears' inept offense met the New York Giants' pathetic defense Sunday at Soldier Field.
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They have always been inept or unwilling to help when relied upon and have always treated the people of the Bronx with hostility and contempt.
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"It's symptomatic of the revolutionary state's highly ideological and often inept approach to governance," Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution, told me.
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Villagers in the province, he found, felt forgotten by what they saw as the inept, corrupt South Vietnamese government and often harbored Viet Cong guerrillas.
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"The Trump administration is chronically inept at, and seemingly uninterested in, any type of long-term planning," Clinton wrote in an opinion piece on CNN.com.
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The hapless heroes at the heart of the comedy "Villains," Mickey (Bill Skarsgard) and Jules (Maika Monroe), are just about the most inept criminals ever.
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If members failed to do so, they were kicked out of the group ... no children under 12 allowed; no food, and no 'socially inept dogs.
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This sent a clear (if inept and uninformed) Twitter message that anyone looking to manipulate the President must simply persuade Trump to like him first.
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On Thursday he excoriated Trump's Syria shift from the Senate floor, calling U.S. diplomacy "so weak and so inept" that Turkey is calling the shots.
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James spread 29 points, 26 rebounds and 20 assists across 33 minutes of an inelegant but compelling war of inept 23-point shooting and attrition.
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This is Iraq where the country is basically disintegrating before our eyes as its inept, kleptocratic government, installed after our fraudulent, endless war, falls apart.
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But Sabol didn't know who was behind the wheel when she first spotted the car, whirling around the block like an inept student driver might.
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Homeschoolers get a bad rep for being socially awkward and inept, but I am actually a very extroverted person so it was tough to be homeschooled.
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With Freeways: Interchange Design for Autonomous Vehicles, a $3 traffic simulation game for iPad, Android tablets, and Windows, players moonlight as a largely inept traffic engineers.
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So as the country continues to descend into chaos over his inept leadership, the easy money is on things only getting worse from here on out.
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Joshy, a comedy about "the emotionally inept nature of male bonding," stars Thomas Middleditch, Adam Pally, Alex Ross Perry, Nick Kroll, Bret Gelman and Jenny Slate.
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I was not the one judging these women — mostly low-income blacks and Latinas, many of them immigrants — but a society that deemed them inept mothers.
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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama made mistakes in their early days resulting from inefficient scheduling, poor staffing, inept decision making, and over-exposure.
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Once wealthier even than the south-east, this part of England has suffered from decades of inept interventions by central government and bickering between local councils.
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How can they, in the midst of the final battle against the Clintons, run away from the field of conflict simply because their commander is inept?
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And, the majority of the news media headlines and analysis about Trump focus on how he's an impossibly inept candidate with no support among mainstream Americans.
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The plot barely makes sense, the set design is comically inept, and most of the dialogue sounds like it was fed through Google Translate multiple times.
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Still, even today we have an ever-growing number of distracted and inept drivers turning our crowded highways into a dystopic version of real-life Frogger.
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He, like May, has said he doesn't agree with Darroch's characterization of Trump and his administration as "clumsy and inept" and "uniquely dysfunctional," among other statements.
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To not know this, when it was clear to the outside world, would be to suggest that Russian commanders are completely inept, which I highly doubt.
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Why should women have to tolerate behavior that is neither standard nor socially acceptable -- that is frankly gross -- in order to accommodate a socially inept man?
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It allows the government to pay benefits directly to over 200m bank accounts linked to its database, so cutting out layers of corrupt and inept middlemen.
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He also began campaigning relentlessly around Mexico with the message that he alone could fix the country's problems, calling out his opponents as corrupt and inept.
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Morsi himself for his foolish power grabs, inept rigidity and inability to realize that he had to demonstrate he was everyone's president, not merely the Brotherhood's?
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Mitt Romney blasting Trump and the US as being "so weak and diplomatically inept" to capitulate to Turkey and calling for public hearings on the matter.
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That is especially so in the first scene, when Erick, Margaret's manager, is inexplicably rude (or inept) toward Steve, the reporter, before the opera star appears.
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"Diverting attention with a political persecution from the dullest, most inept and corrupt government doesn't achieve anything for the people," he said in a Twitter post.
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He suggested that what's appealing about the gamer porn fantasy isn't just the idea that women do game, but that gamer men aren't stereotypically socially inept.
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The resounding nave wrung my heart out harder and better than any of the desiccated marijuana, clumsily mixed drinks or inept gropings of the nights before.
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In reality, he is mostly inept but constantly having many of his most destructive ideas cheered by establishment leaders who see electoral upside in doing so.
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As for less dangerous daily tasks, you can give them a shot—but expect to kind of suck, and possibly act like a socially inept doofus.
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Trump has spent nearly a decade now trying to paint Barack Obama as not only an illegitimate president, but also as an inept, lazy, embarrassing one.
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Why did the great philosophers, who could write about the most difficult subjects, from death to pleasure, suddenly become so inept and awkward when contemplating fatherhood?
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Stephen Colbert has had no qualms about routinely using his Late Show monologues to call President Donald Trump cruel and inept ever since Trump was elected.
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It would, of course, be very odd if such a prestigious school let inept graduates teach students whose families pay some $50,000 a year in tuition.
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Ballot initiatives picked up steam during the Progressive Era, as a means for voters to push through reforms in the face of inept and intransigent politicians.
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Finally, stung by the outcry, President Xi Jinping asserted that he had been in charge all along, although critics noted that the initial response was inept.
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Raj is nerdy, highly educated with a professional job, video-chats with his parents on a laptop, doesn't handle alcohol well and is inept with women.
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A professor of behavioral medicine told The New York Times that research suggests people who dislike or feel inept at their workouts are unlikely to continue.
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Which is why we may be looking at a more radical, and more inept, foreign policy than anyone expected from Mr. Trump, even two weeks ago.
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Even some Republicans have criticized as inept and amateurish the rollout of the immigration order, which is now at the center of a federal court fight.
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This is despite the validated interference of the Russians and the inept and unfair role of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, in discrediting Hillary Clinton.
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FRUM: Lincoln and F.D.R. expanded the presidency in ways that Donald Trump has not yet attempted, and is probably too idle, distracted and inept to execute.
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George's Bar—named after George Costanza, prince of the under-achievers and chief of the socially inept—is a testament to 90s pop culture and kitsch.
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The American Red Cross raised more than $600 million last year, despite being pilloried for its inept responses to Hurricane Sandy and the 2010 Haitian earthquake.
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From there it goes haywire and becomes a laughably inept, crazily edited, incomprehensible, suspense-free thriller, one of whose villains repeatedly runs people down with a motorcycle.
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It is all too easy to feel alone and inept, especially when you're lying on your bed in the dark, fumbling for a lifeline on your phone.
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The president's tweets ripped into the women and spoke broadly of the "corrupt and inept" governments of the countries from which he falsely claimed they came from.
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Redmayne and "Game of Thrones" star Maisie Williams play alongside Tom Hiddleston in a new prehistoric-era adventure about inept cavemen from Oscar-winning director Nick Park.
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Instead, the proto-interns are made to be "completely socially inept" fools who are so awkward, they can never look away from their tablet screens and iPhones.
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Decisions on war and peace — decisions that cost many powerless people their lives — often turn on such ridiculousness, and on the inept fickleness of the decision-makers.
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But Wiseau had the good luck to work in an era of instant cult classics, where his inept overconfidence could be celebrated for its authenticity and enthusiasm.
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He went from inept to effective at running a pick-and-roll, initiating many more of them this season with a sizable uptick in efficiency to boot.
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The town's mayor is a woman (score one for the popular vote), but like the rest of the adults around, she comes off as bumbling and inept.
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"That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I've seen in the NFL," Redden wrote Monday morning about Watson's performance at the end of the game.
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The documents show that Facebook is not bumbling, inept, or unimaginative about how their product could be used or how the public would respond to its decisions.
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She later called on Carson to resign, saying in a statement that he has "proven himself to be deceitful and inept" and "unfit to serve" as secretary.
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Kings 2, Stars 1 Jack Campbell turned away 29 shots, and Dustin Brown and Carl Hagelin scored goals as visiting Los Angeles held off offensively inept Dallas.
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This is the inescapable fact: on November 9th, the United States elected a dishonest, inept, unbalanced, and immoral human being as its President and Commander-in-Chief.
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This success, in large measure, is the direct consequence of the administration's inept and thoughtless policies in the Middle East that merely compound its predecessor's failures there.
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"Pena Nieto is a cancer, he is inept, people don't want him there," said Efrain Monter, a retired engineer in Actopan in the central state of Hidalgo.
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There's no easy fix under our current, inept healthcare system, but in the meantime it's worth considering and being compassionate how and why other people are suffering.
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The power shortage in Iraq sparked protests in Basra and other Iraqi cities in July, as people blamed what they called an inept and corrupt Iraqi government.
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Deangelo Jr. tags the would-be film's heroes as "an inept cop" and a "a dog with a limp" before going on to reveal the ostensible villains.
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Kim Darroch quit on Wednesday after Trump called him "stupid" and "wacky" following the leaking of the memos in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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Francona almost revels in telling stories that make him look inept at certain things, perhaps because when it comes to his job, he is so darn competent.
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Amid a global pandemic, doctors far and wide are being called to the field to embrace roles they may feel completely inept in, oftentimes without adequate protection.
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Sri Lanka has been in crisis since late last month, when President Maithripala Sirisena abruptly fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, accusing him of being inept and corrupt.
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"The Play That Goes Wrong," a British farce about an inept theater troupe's ill-fated effort to stage a murder mystery, will close on Broadway this summer.
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"Killing Ground" features a man and a woman who make head-slappingly dumb choices as they flee from a pair of killers who are just as inept.
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That larger-than-life reputation raised hopes and expectations of many in a country where people are often wary of politicians, regarding them as inept and corrupt.
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Joanne Cash, a barrister and former prospective Tory candidate who lives near Grenfell Tower, says the mood is of "real anger" about inept handling of the fire's aftermath.
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This season, the duo have taken on a sort of inept charm in their misadventures together, reminiscent of Legends of Tomorrow's time-bros Ray Palmer and Nate Heywood.
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Yet the response from Conservative backbenchers and the right-wing press—who, with Labour under inept leadership, form the main opposition to the government these days—was apoplectic.
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Maeve, a schemer in need of cash (she lives in a trailer park), decides there's a market for Otis's skills among the sexually inept students at Moordale Secondary.
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The series, which begins on Wednesday night, is about six inappropriate and inept elementary school teachers, characters who were subtly sharp in webisodes of a few minutes' duration.
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" Voorhees's reinvestigation of the complaint was inept, Bhargava noted, highlighting a need for more training "on how to evaluate evidence and the appropriate evidentiary standard to assess it.
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The U.K. ambassador to the United States called President Trump "incompetent" and "inept" in communications sent to Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Daily Mail first reported Saturday.
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If you're willing to drop $500 for an electric skateboard that isn't entirely inept, but not the polished experience seen on more expensive boards, then by all means.
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If such things were allowed to happen in the past is proof of Washington's inept trade administration — and of a culpable negligence of America's vitally important economic interests.
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And investors seem to have forgotten that it was his inept response to the euro crisis in 2011 that brought the single currency to the brink of disaster.
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Regardless of one's moral / political stance on blanket user surveillance in the name of so-called national security, that combination of actions is just painfully, even staggeringly, inept.
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Trigger happy. Evasive. LYING. Vacuous. Vapid. Vacant. Vacationing. Meaningless. Frivolous. Oblivious. Sloppy. Silly. Empty. Outvoted. Overruled. Overturned. Null. Void. Inane. Inept. Negligent. Negligible. Naïve. Juvenile. Trivial. Disappointing. Underwhelming.
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" 71-year-old Meigs Glidewell took a refresher course after getting a ticket and realized, just 15 minutes into the class that she was "an extremely inept driver.
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Supposing this curse was passed down, it's no wonder that the professor seems so inept and that the reader spends most of the novels scoffing whenever she's mentioned.
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Of course, even the inept can be dangerous — but far more aspiring terrorists have been, and will be, arrested or killed than the few who actually do something.
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His actions all but guaranteed that a story involving a critique of his presidency would last several days, which makes him seem — Darroch, help me out here — inept.
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Aniston explained it was because she always dropped plates, tripped and "was very clutzy," proving she was born to play the similarly inept Central Perk waitress Rachel Green.
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The result is both poignant and infuriating: a cavalcade of desperate loved ones, inept doctors, and college administrators who try to kick him out because of his seizures.
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He became most famous as the totally inept stunt man Super Dave, a character I can only describe as Evel Knievel after too many falls on his head.
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Sir Kim Darroch, the UK ambassador to the US who was forced to announce his resignation after describing President Donald Trump as "inept," has been made a Lord.
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That raid led to criticism from lawmakers who described the co-operation between the police and the BBC as "inept" and causing "irreparable damage" to the singer's reputation.
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In a remarkable departure from his earlier statements, President Donald Trump also acknowledged that this decades-old problem was mainly caused by America's negligent and inept trade policies.
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"On their first day, people can get shy or nervous and not want to appear inept," Casey Hill, growth manager at Bonjoro, told Business Insider in an email.
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She left her most recent post in June as director of the Foreign Service Institute over what she called "inept and negative management" by Tillerson and his team.
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The riot catalyzed surprising alliances, but no bedfellows were stranger than Litchfield's inept white-power gang and the two Latina inmates Pidge (Miriam Morales) and Ouija (Rosal Colon).
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When we were lucky enough to see black nerds in films like "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," they were usually so socially inept they were unbearable to watch.
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In recent interviews, Ms. Hill and others involved in the confirmation fight portrayed Mr. Biden's handling of the hearing as at best inept and at worst deeply insensitive.
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De Blasio, who commutes to City Hall in a chauffeured SUV by way of the Park Slope YMCA, remains an imperfect (and, one could argue today, inept) messenger.
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" John Polga-Hecimovich, a Latin America expert at the United States Naval Academy, said Mr. Piñera had been "surprisingly inept at recognizing and responding to the initial protests.
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Paris should have no trouble winning the day against the vague, inept and sloganeering integration rhetoric put forward by an apparently German-sponsored EU proposal presented last week.
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In October 2018, Sri Lanka's departing president, Maithripala Sirisena, abruptly fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, calling him inept and corrupt, and then appointing Mahinda Rajapaksa to the position.
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The new chief of staff, John Kelly, got off to a good start by arranging the sacking of Anthony Scaramucci, the inept and mercifully short-lived communications director.
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And while Enes Kanter, the team's third-leading scorer, is holding up his end of the bargain on the offensive end, he remains almost comically inept on defense.
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However, the Rams were almost equally inept with the ball, and the first nine minutes of the semifinal produced very little offense and just three total field goals.
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If that's the case, and you'd rather not come off as an inept city slicker, you're in luck: New York City's first ax-throwing site is opening today.
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Richardson is strong enough to survive inept direction, but the rest of the performances range from bad to wincingly bad, including the distractingly modern types on the edges.
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"To be sure, certain hostile offers are justified: Some C.E.O.s forget that it is shareholders for whom they should be working, while other managers are woefully inept," he wrote.
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It's easy to dismiss these materials as the inept internet antics of a floundering, attention-starved white nationalist, but the actions of the RoF's young recruit speak for themselves.
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Trump remains in willful denial of the thousands of deaths caused by his government's inept, under-funded, and under-motivated response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.
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Brexit and Donald Trump have a lot in common in their appeal to voters who don't like the way things are going and view Brussels and Washington as inept.
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That's left sex workers at massage parlors—even in one of America's most progressive cities—to deal with cops they and their advocates often describe as inept, or worse.
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"The attitude towards mental health care in Nigeria has been inept, but because of the dire needs, we are starting to see more attention from the government," Ghuluze said.
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I was certain he would reprimand me, tell me I was an idiot, that I didn't know what I was doing, that I was too inept for his home.
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The backdrop, as outlined by Axios' Dave Lawler: Darroch described Trump's administration as "inept" and "incompetent" in private memos back to London that leaked to the Mail on Sunday.
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"When it comes to conspiracy, Trump's saving grace may have been that despite Russians wanting to help, everyone around him was too inept to work with them," Oliver said.
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Most surprisingly, the well-funded Jeb Bush proved to be an extraordinarily inept campaigner, and much of the establishment support that should've gone to him flowed instead to Rubio.
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If they can be easily fabricated to show candidates making inflammatory statements, or simply looking inept, civic discourse will further degrade and public trust will plummet to new depths.
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Tools do not have rights and should not have feelings that could be hurt or be able to respond with resentment to "abuses" rained on them by inept users.
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The "Congresswomen," he wrote, "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world..." should leave.
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Whether you believe Zepeda to be completely inept or on the take, it took a level of competition that low, artificially or otherwise, to safely get him a victory.
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With her assured-but-approachable tone, she sidesteps the common pitfalls for ambitious women — who are too often deemed inept, bossy, or bitchy for behavior otherwise accepted in men.
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"Diplomatically, the speech was inept at best and deliberately insulting at worst," said Jeff Rathke, deputy director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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This is the context behind the failed missile test that took place over the weekend, proof that the U.S.'s rhetorical provocation is producing an aggressive, if inept, response.
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Kim Darroch was sucked into a row this week after his private memos were leaked to a British newspaper, showing that he had described the Trump administration as inept.
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Trump remains in willful denial of the thousands of deaths caused by his government's inept, under-funded, and under-motivated response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year.
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But in the case of the Dreamers, Iran, and Obamacare, he kicked the issues to a flighty and inept Congress, which is now tasked with resolving these problems quickly.
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Since its cult success, Wiseau has tried to pass his film off as a "black comedy" rather than an inept melodrama that's unintentionally funny, but he's not fooling anyone.
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In the end, a lot of people in the Show-Me State may be able to thank a clever lawyer and a bunch of inept regulators for their freedom.
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Based on that tell-all (which Mr. Sestero wrote with Tom Bissell), "The Disaster Artist" recounts both the making of a friendship and the absurdly inept movie it produced.
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He and Don Knotts played a pair of inept outlaws in the Disney films "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975) and its sequel, "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" (1979).
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"They [her main challengers] are pathetically weak, inept, and unpopular," Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist who writes a column in one of Peru's leading newspapers, told VICE News.
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Still, Mr. Rajoy's inept handling of the referendum will have a lasting impact, even if both sides eventually calm down and turn to further talks about enhanced Catalan autonomy.
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Performers like Mr. Thompson and Leslie Jones enlivened the evening, but several bits, like a running gag featuring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen as inept Emmy experts, fell flat.
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In a series of tight, perfectly composed opening scenes, the German filmmaker Ulrich Köhler introduces us to the misery of Armin (Hans Löw), an inept news cameraman in Berlin.
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Obama should donate the $400,000 to a fund that helps Syrian children whose suffering was made much worse by his weak and inept policy toward Syria throughout his presidency.
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She will succeed Kim Darroch, who resigned last year after the leak of diplomatic cables revealed he had characterized the Trump administration as "clumsy and inept," among other things.
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But in 2010 corruption scandals began to expose India's government — headed then by technocrats trained at Oxford, Harvard Business School and the World Bank — as both venal and inept.
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Just the sort of defeat that an inept reaction to last week's election thrashing would create — and, boy, it sure looks like the first reaction might be exactly that!
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The same fans may also understand why the Jaguars had not been in the postseason in 10 seasons, either, as their offense was nearly as one-dimensional and inept.
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Uber released a series of recommendations that came out of an external investigation into the toxic culture and inept management to its staff at an all-hands meeting today.
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You are risking your leadership looking inept, looking like it can't control its caucus, that it can't deliver on promises it has been making for the past seven years.
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The second half of Disrupted dovetails neatly, Lyons keeps up the economic argument, diving into the particularly inept financial management of HubSpot (one that nonetheless yields a successful IPO).
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Inspired by redditor Atlanticlantern's comment on this ridiculous Siri interaction, Youtube user MW3haha re-edited a short sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey, replacing Hal with a very inept Siri.
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" The exchange among friends began Sunday, when British tabloid the Daily Mail published leaked cables, in which Darroch referred to the Trump administration as "clumsy and inept" and "uniquely dysfunctional.
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The Big Bang Theory used a fairly broad, traditional definition — aficionados of both real and fictional sciences, sometimes socially inept — that somehow felt condescending and flattering at the same time.
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But the most useful change was a decision to allow venture-backed startups without previous carmaking experience to enter a field previously dominated by inept firms cranking out subpar EVs.
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Problem was, the chain's big foray into the world of hardware production was horrifyingly inept, driven by film-industry interests, and put into place in partnership with a law firm.
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Combined with the actions of Republian statehouses, the Court's inept and illogical re-writing of the Medicaid expansion in Sebelius has denied health care coverage to millions of poor people.
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The footage contains statements designed to craft an image of Hillary Clinton as an ailing, insane, inept leader and Donald Trump as a conquering hero that respects and loves Russia.
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Kim Darroch quit earlier in the day after repeated criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump following the release of diplomatic messages in which Darroch had described Trump's administration as inept.
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One of the key presidential powers is access to the bully-pulpit, which Trump is remarkably inept at commanding despite (or perhaps because) of his long career as a showman.
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Making a Murderer portrayed the Manitowoc County police as at least inept, if not willfully malicious; they were accused by Avery's lawyers of manipulating the crime scene and planting evidence.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to the United States described President Donald Trump's administration as "dysfunctional", "clumsy" and "inept", the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported, citing a series of confidential memos.
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" Outside observers are also concerned that authorities could ignore some of the report's findings in favor of a similar inquiry by the Myanmar government, which Human Rights Watch called "inept.
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The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations.
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"Cooking is a dangerous thing for me, I'm pretty inept in the kitchen," Lourd said after host James Corden asked her what she planned to make for the holiday dinner.
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As inept as the Dolphins have looked so far this year, they're coming off of a bye week, and the offense has looked more consistent since Josh Rosen took over.
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That historic loss of House seats overall reflected incredibly inept leadership at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and a reaction from the far right to America's first nonwhite president.
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The president described the women as people "who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world".
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To a lesser extent, this notion that the Iranian regime is on the brink is also backed by mounting evidence of popular anger about Iran's inept domestic and foreign policies.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one cable.
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Britain's ambassador to Washington resigned on Wednesday after days of criticism from Donald Trump following a leak of confidential memos in which Kim Darroch described the U.S. administration as inept.
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Are they just really inept kidnappers, or is this whole thing some sort of conspiracy by the anti-clown movement to bring on the clown extinction once and for all?
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one cable.
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When my friends from home visited, we'd crack shells out by the pool in my building and I'd chide them about how slow they and inept they were at it.
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As David Brooks tries to reassure us that Trump is too inept to be a scary authoritarian, the Caller review is a reminder that it's really a both/and situation.
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Manning was also sacked three times and the Giants offense, so dynamic in the past month behind rookie running back Saquon Barkley, went back to looking predictable, inept and lifeless.
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The findings intimate that people worried that they might be too old or inept to start resistance training should perhaps try it, to see how their bodies and minds respond.
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Many also said they now considered themselves more physically inept than they had at the study's start, often because they were rarely near the top of the activity leader boards.
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A bullpen implosion that turned a 33-1 lead after five innings into a 6-3 loss to an inept Orioles team that has already lost 110 games this season.
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"Manuelzhino," for example, is a fond but exasperated complaint, in a landowner's voice, about an inept gardener—"half squatter, half tenant (no rent)"—who genially fails at every assigned task.
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With the inept, shameful, evasive way it handled sexual misconduct on its set, Season 39 of "Survivor" has indeed been a microcosm of the larger world — at its absolute worst.
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That's when Colombians, disgusted by the murder of three presidential candidates, bombings in shopping malls and an inept and brutal state response, took to the streets demanding a new Constitution.
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Despite having little real experience in restoring transmission lines and only two full-time employees, the inept officials at the power authority inked a contract with the Montana-based firm.
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I thought it was easy, but I have since put myself through the wringer of watching it on a television rerun, and it's the most inept score you ever heard.
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It has to be bitterly ironic for Bills fans that they found production like this from a quarterback but still didn't make the playoffs because of Rex Ryan's inept pass rush.
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Conway's other most memorable recurring characters included an elderly man whose shuffling pace always caused trouble and Mr. Tudball, a businessman plagued by an indifferent and inept secretary played by Burnett.
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Jack Campbell turned away 29 shots, and Dustin Brown and Carl Hagelin scored goals as the visiting Los Angeles Kings held off the offensively inept Dallas Stars 20-22 on Thursday.
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In Good Time, one night in the life of an inept Queens bank robber named Constantine Nikas (played by an electric Robert Pattinson) unfolds in a series of increasingly disastrous events.
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"To be sure, certain hostile offers are justified: Some C.E.O.s forget that it is shareholders for whom they should be working, while other managers are woefully inept," the billionaire investor wrote.
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Dr. Strangelove points out how inept the leaders of the Cold War were, but it obviously does not see the detonation of a nuclear weapon as a fun or optimal output.
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Because that's part of the strategy: They're calling the builders 'destroyers,' and they're trying to tear us down, and make us feel so depressed and inept that we can't do anything.
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We got a thick fog of reassurances about everyone's rights as Britain leaves the EU, and learned that Labour in power would not be an "inept negotiating team" (good to know).
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This under-planned, poorly executed, elementary level artwork that uses Black women and men as props and controversy starters is over-intellectualized by classist, utterly inept, pompous, and clueless curator types.
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Dr. Young says that to really tackle imposter syndrome, you just have to bite the bullet and do whatever it is you have to, even if you feel inadequate or inept.
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When the Shah failed in his duty to address the needs of his citizens -- when the government was revealed to be kleptocratic, inept and corrupt -- the religious conservatives saw their chance.
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Britain's ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, resigned on Wednesday after days of criticism from Donald Trump following a leak of confidential memos in which Darroch described the U.S. administration as inept.
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Kim Darroch resigned on Wednesday after Donald Trump labelled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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They're gonna feel out of place, they're going to be socially inept, because, not only that, they're in a whole entire new era than the one they were just familiar with.
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Most recently, Trump's comically inept and financially conflicted new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, violated Justice Department protocols meant to prevent political interference in prosecutions, just to let Sessions know the score.
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The problem for the Democrats is less one of substance than one of politics — when it's handed over next month to the inept Judiciary Committee to frame any bills of impeachment.
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In addition to an Electoral College system that Trump had previously criticized, an inept FBI, and a poorly executed campaign by the Democrats, there was, of course, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
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Former White House adviser Steve Bannon depicted former President George W. Bush as bumbling and inept, faulting him for presiding over a "destructive" presidency during his time in the White House.
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Baylor had just 115 total yards of offense in the first half but the Mountaineers were even more inept, managing only 39 yards on 21 snaps over the first two quarters.
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Aside from a can of beer and a dog whose name cannot be published in this space, few things made her happier than a lawmaker who was mendacious, greedy and inept.
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Echo Dot (3rd gen), $34.99, available at AmazonWhether she's a setup wizard or completely inept at tech, mom will love this smart speaker that she can control with her own voice.
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Liberals are fond of caricaturing Betsy DeVos as inept, but her "education freedom" agenda is rapidly unfurling at the state level, as she wields the arguments Booker himself voiced in 2000.
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Across the country one hears repeated talk of impeachment, or of the idea that Trump will be so inept that he will bring himself and Republicans down in 2018 and 2020.
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On Monday, Donald Trump said he would not deal with British ambassador Kim Darroch after a leak of confidential memos in which the diplomat described the U.S. president's administration as "inept".
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While my husband and other FBI, DEA, ATF, Border Patrol and Secret Service agents prove their commitment to their country by protecting it without pay, Congress and our President sit inept.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump said he would not deal with Britain's ambassador to Washington after a leak of confidential memos in which the diplomat described the U.S. president's administration as "inept".
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The one thing that Siri does have going for it, sometimes even though it may seem a little bit, I'm trying to be kind here, but inept keeps coming to mind.
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And, unsurprisingly, Tina Fey pops in every so often as the owner of the McVilla that Abby rents, a sprawl that comes with its own driver and (inept) cook (Jason Schwartzman).
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The Camp David strategy session will provide an opportunity to switch subjects after the furor over the book, which went on sale on Friday, that describes an inept Trump White House.
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Seems like we're in a weird spot right now, you were just speaking in a derogatory way, which I agree with, about cookies and how inept sort of digital marketing is.
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These are lessons we learn young: paying homage to an extraordinary soccer player or a talented singer, while the exceptional thinkers and learners toil in obscurity, often ridiculed as socially inept.
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Inovo ultimately paid the Flynn Intel Group only $93,000 and received little more than slapdash research and a comically inept attempt to make an anti-Gulen video, which was never completed.
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That experience with my mom — how inept it made me feel, along with a minor car accident we got into — was enough to put me off for more than a decade.
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There will be security risks in regions torn by sectarian and political warfare; legal obstacles in nations with different laws; and bureaucratic hurdles in countries with inept governments and corrupt officials.
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The message that comes across instead is one of a self-centered and unsophisticated executive, inept when it comes to advancing any kind of real strategy to support key democratic freedoms.
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Us plant-inept folk just can't seem to stop accidentally murdering our photosynthetic friends, either due to pure obliviousness or a streak of bad luck (it's definitely just bad luck, right?).
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One of Facebook's first 300 users, Buttigieg's tech fluency offered a striking contrast to the stereotype of tech-inept members of Congress, a frequent complaint within tech in recent regulatory hearings.
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"On Joe Biden's watch, the U.S. made eradicating corruption a centerpiece of our policies toward Ukraine, including achieving the removal of an inept prosecutor who shielded wrongdoers from accountability," he said.
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Does anybody doubt that the clumsy language and inept cultural references of the Russian trolls who seeded divisive pro-Trump messages during the 2016 election will improve as A.I. gains sophistication?
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Between Chavez and his hopeless successor, the corrupt and inept Nicolas Maduro, the expropriations have reached companies producing rice, sugar, milk, coffee, juice, hotels, shopping malls, supermarkets...the list goes on.
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Warren was able to leapfrog the traditional résumé demands of statewide candidates via inadvertent boosts from both a timorous Barack Obama and the most inept Democratic Senate candidate in recent memory.
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Last month, TV Land unveiled "Teachers," a middling sitcom about a group of inept educators created by and featuring the Katydids, a six-woman comedy ensemble out of Los Angeles via Chicago.
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In the cables that were leaked to the Daily Mail, Darroch wrote what most of Trump's peers are probably thinking: He's insecure, incompetent and inept, and his career could end in disgrace.
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But the net effect is that the public and political leaders became less friendly to aggressive intervention in the economy, believing that the government was too inept and corrupt to be trusted.
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Hence the government's ramping up of no-deal planning, which has included such comically inept events as the award of a contract for ferry services to a firm that has no ships.
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J. Simpson" winners Brown and Vance, Egyptian-American Rami Malek beat veterans Kevin Spacey and Liev Schreiber to scoop his first Emmy for playing a socially inept computer hacker in "Mr. Robot.
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No matter how inept you think your opponent is, allowing him or her to dominate the news means that if they suddenly do something smart or positive, it will be amplified exponentially.
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It is important—as anyone who has had to deal with the socially inept will know—that robots understand the right moments to convey messages, and also how much information to convey.
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Trump lashed out at "foolish" British Prime Minister Theresa May and her "wacky" Washington ambassador on Tuesday after leaked documents showed the envoy had described the U.S. administration as "dysfunctional" and "inept".
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Who else could arrange for the inept Mr. Hall and well-meaning Miss Geist to fall in love through a series of well-placed sonnets and a few Thermoses of gourmet coffee?
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Trump's tenure as president has not only eclipsed Richard Nixon's in terms of the scope of possible wrongdoing, but he is undisputedly the most inept, inexperienced, incompetent president we have ever had.
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For corruption erodes trust in government, as India's Congress Party discovered when it was turned out of office in 2014, in large part because many ministers were seen as inept and corrupt.
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The messages showed members of the committee's communications team musing about pushing the narrative that the Sanders campaign was inept and trying to raise questions publicly about whether he was an atheist.
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They range from an extremely rudimentary "Getting Started" course — intended for new users (and perfect for technologically-inept parents) — to more advanced courses that enlighten people on the site's lesser known features.
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Adapted from "The Bridge," the Scandinavian noir set on the Oresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark, and centered on the socially inept detective Saga Noren, "The Tunnel" hews closely to the original.
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For the 99.9 percent of us who are considerably less energetic and committed in our efforts at physical and intellectual self-improvement, it can make you feel pretty inept and often lazy.
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He is now seeing that this isn't as easy as it looks — and perhaps is recognizing that his predecessors weren't as inept or as weak as he may have previously claimed. Gen.
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Episode 4, "Alone," is almost entirely silent and consists of a realistically inept guy named Lance (Kelsey Flower) running from one location to another as he tries to evade a persistent zombie.
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Yes, he is also diplomatically inept, overwhelmed by avarice, thoroughly corrupt and a pathological liar, but it is to white supremacy and to hostility for everyone not white that he always returns.
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Things came to a head last fall when demonstrations gripped the country as protesters took to the streets raging at years of inept leadership and rampant corruption, eventually bringing down the government.
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Misogynistic, inconsiderate, and socially inept, Raj was still a perpetuation of racism in Hollywood, albeit a more subtle example than those like Apu of the Simpsons and Mr. Kim from South Park.
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The defense shut down the rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky and the inept Bears (3-8), holding them to zero first downs in the first half and 53 total yards in the game.
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Given the President's construction of an alternate universe where he's permitted to utter lies by the thousands without ever taking responsibility, his inept attempt to address Wednesday's bomb threats was, perhaps, inevitable.
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"As a child she's not allowed a political voice through the vote, but schoolchildren have to face the brutal consequences of irresponsible gun policy and inept or impotent politicians," Aiko Smith said.
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As in Nevada, rival Democrats have proved inept at slowing down Sanders; he has hovered between one-fifth and one-third of the vote, but gained as the campaign has gone on.
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As Carmen, the mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac is cool and careless, late on her first entrance and too inept to pull the traditional flower from her hair to throw to Don José.
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Having ousted a civilian government it accused of being inept and corrupt, the junta wants projects to be as clean as possible, so that critics have less ammunition to attack it later.
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Hated: Minions In 2010, "Despicable Me" introduced us to a race of small, inept yellow creatures that would infect every toy shop and meme-addled Facebook feed for the next 10 years.
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Most forecasters share the establishment disdain for Mr. Trump, yet few paused to consider whether a leader they see as inept and divisive could deliver all this as fast as he promised.
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LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to the United States described President Donald Trump's administration as "dysfunctional", "clumsy" and "inept", the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported, citing a series of confidential memos.
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It was fairly obvious that he had been forced to write it by the counselors and in his own way, he rebelled by making it as emotionally and grammatically inept as possible.
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De Blasio's mismanagement of the New York City Housing Authority was so inept that the Department of Housing and Urban Development had to install a federal monitor to keep watch over the institution.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said Sunday the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States "has not served the UK well," after the ambassador called Trump "inept" and "incompetent" in leaked diplomatic cables.
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A combination of Iowa's byzantine caucus system, a failed app, and the catastrophically inept Democratic establishment has delayed Iowa from declaring a winner, though it says the result could come in later today.
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Indeed, the exchange recalls "Four Lions" (2010), Chris Morris's send-up of bumbling jihad, in which a would-be terrorist records a comically inept message of hate while brandishing a child's toy rifle.
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It established what has been a consistent pattern of behavior: an ill-considered, hastily vetted decision, followed by an inept public rollout, followed by overwhelming disapproval from all corners, and ending in retreat.
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The country has a history of coups in which the military brought down governments they thought were too autocratic, too inept, or too religious in an attempt to press the democratic reset button.
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"I don't think that we can afford to have the start that we had today," Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle told reporters of what he termed was a "pretty inept" opening 235 minutes Friday.
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If you haven't kept up with the Uber saga, here's the lowdown: Former Uber engineer Susan J. Fowler penned a harrowing essay about sexism and inept HR practices at the ride-sharing giant.
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"This is not a very auspicious start for a party who is trying to run a narrative that an incumbent president is inept and corrupt," said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump political aide.
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The close allies were caught in an escalating spat last week after memos from Britain's ambassador to Washington describing Donald Trump's administration as inept infuriated the president, ultimately leading to the envoy's resignation.
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The classified memos revealed that Darroch described President Donald Trump as "insecure" and his "uniquely dysfunctional" administration as "diplomatically clumsy and inept" — comments which were confirmed by a U.K. government official to CNN.
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Some of the rest of the Cats cast was coming around to the side of the stage (probably wondering who their inept new costar was), so I said my goodbyes and ran downstairs.
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As she put it in her draft: As a group, the girls are as cold and calculating, and as irrational and defenseless and inept, as if drawn by an anti-feminist male writer.
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Sydney-based fund manager Merlon Capital Partners sent a letter to the board attacking what it called a "preposterous" and "inept" deal and seeking an explanation on how the sale could be stopped.
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Witnesses said the crime was so senseless and the getaway so inept that they had been moved, against their instincts, to point him out to police officers, who stopped him near the subway.
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Who could forget "Beauty and the Geek," the five-season reality show on the WB, and later CW, which paired up beautiful, but seemingly superficial women with smart, but seemingly socially inept men.
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But relations between Britain and the United States have suffered in recent weeks after the leak of confidential memos from the British ambassador to Washington which reportedly described Donald Trump's administration as inept.
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"We might be flavor of the month, but this is still the land of 'America First,'" wrote Darroch, who in other memos described Trump as "inept" and his administration as mired in chaos.
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"These seduction coaches are targeting men who, for whatever reason, are socially inept and disadvantaged in the dating landscape and are trying desperately to figure out how to communicate with women," she says.
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"We believe that the uncertainty that the ... government has created by its inept and rigid handling of the Brexit negotiations lurks in the background," said national officer for the automotive sector Des Quinn.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Chooses Hawk for 3rd Security Adviser as Shake-Up Continues" (front page, March 23): The Trump administration has transitioned from the merely inept to the patently terrifying.
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In an operation so inept it might be comic were it not so cruel, in 2006 two Russian assassins poisoned Litvinenko with polonium in a London hotel, leaving a trail of radioactive smears.
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Though the Vietnamese government has made overtures of support for gathering and identifying remains, its efforts continue to be mostly limited and often inept, according to volunteers and families with whom I spoke.
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In what is perhaps TV's smartest inside-the-Beltway comedy, Meyer — played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus — gets little respect and has trouble earning any thanks, in part because her staff is spectacularly inept.
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Gradually, Philadelphians embraced Gritty, whose bellicose, sometimes inept character resonated in a city whose identity is wrapped up in a mix of blue-collar pride, defensiveness and a long history of athletic failure.
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If you're like me and keep fumbling and bumbling drinks while trying to handle your phone in one hand like a ridiculously inept infomercial actor, boy does PopSockets have the product for you.
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Considering the government's slow and inept response to recent natural disasters, it is not surprising that people — especially those in working-class and minority communities — frequently do not trust the government's disaster preparation.
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During the last election four years ago, Ms. Tsai won by a landslide largely because the outgoing president, Ma Ying-jeou, of the Kuomintang, was widely regarded as inept and too pro-China.
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New England and Dallas have looked great so far — though neither has beaten a good opponent — and Washington and Pittsburgh have been bad, even if they aren't quite as intentionally inept as Miami.
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Narcissistic, womanizing and socially inept in a manner particular to a certain strain of male academics, Bruce Firstman is renowned for his research on scorpions — a useful metaphor if there ever was one.
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Being notably inept when it comes to basically all forms of technology, Trump has for years tried to make hay of the fact the DNC didn't turn over its servers to the FBI.
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Graham said on the "Today" show on Tuesday that Nunes was bumbling his way through something of an "Inspector Clouseau investigation," a reference to the fantastically inept protagonist of the "Pink Panther" comedies.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one, according to the newspaper.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are backing the president's position that Puerto Rico has already been helped, but Democrats still blame the administration for its inept response that left many powerless, hungry or dead.
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In one popular skit, Conway's portrayal of an inept dentist who accidentally injects himself with painkiller resulted in Korman, who was playing the patient, laughing so hard that he wet his pants, Burnett said.
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While raw nationalism fuelled the conflict in Yugoslavia, economics and inept leadership were the prime causes of Czechoslovakia's schism—a dynamic that presages the struggle for independence in contemporary Catalonia, a region of Spain.
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President Trump criticized Britain's ambassador to the U.S. Sunday, as the British government launched an inquiry into leaked cables reportedly showing he called the president and his administration "inept" and "incompetent," the BBC reports.
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UAE-backed forces have made the only coalition gains and control a string of ports, including Aden, the temporary headquarters of the internationally recognized government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, largely seen as inept.
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"The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations," Trump tweeted in 2018.
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More recently, Johnson showed his reluctance to antagonize Trump when he failed to defend British Ambassador Kim Darroch after diplomatic memos in which Darroch described Trump's administration as "inept" were leaked to a newspaper.
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Yet, can this account of Trump as a would-be strongman be reconciled with the fact that the president is also showing himself to be inept at using the awesome powers of the presidency?
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But, it's the perfect example of earning an easy takedown against an over-zealous opponent and it proved to be worth it as I soon realised how inept my opponent was on the floor.
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Rudy Giuliani's cartoonishly inept dirt-digging operation in Ukraine would not have been possible without Dmitry Firtash, the shady Ukrainian natural gas magnate who has spent at least $1 million investigating the Biden family.
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Aided and abetted by a woefully weak, inept read-questions-off-a-list moderator, Pence projected a classic, old-time Republican persona — even using one of President Reagan's lines — mixed in with Indiana snugness.
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Around him I felt inept, and although we are polite to each other (kind, even), my sense is that he views me as his wife's hapless son, part of the bargain of marrying her.
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Backed by an actual government, athletes had been using performance-enhancing drugs on a massive, systemic scale, and taking advantage of a worldwide anti-doping apparatus that appeared to be both corrupt and inept.
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LONDON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said his government would no longer deal with the British ambassador to the United States after the envoy described the Trump administration as "clumsy" and "inept" in confidential correspondence.
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The Afghan system was developed with enormous international support — financial and otherwise — that was injected unconditionally into Kabul since 2001, only to nurture a small cadre of a dominant, affluent, yet inept political class.
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On the other hand, if Chinese leaders act too cautiously, they could look inept to a domestic populace that has, in recent years, become more self-assured about China's status as a rising power.
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The advertising executive Rosser Reeves put Eisenhower in controlled settings where his optimism, self-confidence, humor and nonpartisanship could be emphasized over his political inexperience and what Reeves viewed as his "inept" speaking style.
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The corruption and the inept preparations of the commission make it certain that any elections it oversees will be much more chaotic than those of 2011, when botched elections led to instability and violence.
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Given the likelihood of another pandemic in the future, we should remember the missteps and inept leadership we have seen in the fight against Covid-19 and vow not to let this happen again.
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Apparently not for the Iowa Democratic caucuses, which is now red-faced over what appears to be an inept rollout of new technology to help precincts report the results of the voting on Monday.
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Government workers are penalized through no fault of their own, constituents are inconvenienced, the nation's image is hurt and those responsible for running the government look inept, irresponsible and unwilling to reach an accommodation.
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Inept fabulist and Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway continued her campaign of foisting verifiably false information onto members of the press yesterday when she claimed a terrorist attack had taken place in Bowling Green.
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Kim Darroch resigned Wednesday for doing his job — sending home blunt diplomatic cables about the US government some of which said Trump's White House had at times been "inept" and that the President was insecure.
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As in the O.J. Simpson criminal case of 1994, shoddy gathering of evidence by the police and an inept presentation of the evidence by the prosecutor was easily beaten by an amply financed legal defense.
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The tactically inept way in which the challengers mounted this campaign has confirmed the basic reality that Pelosi is an uncommonly savvy legislative leader, and that's fundamentally the main thing you want in a speaker.
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The likeliest PAN candidate, Margarita Zavala, is popular, but she is the wife of a former president, Felipe Calderón, who is widely blamed for an upsurge of violence provoked by his inept crackdown on crime.
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Nate's a supplement guy who's dedicated his life to slinging nutritional pills and powders that have not been approved by what he deems to be the "inept, deplorable, and useless" FDA all over the country.
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Playing a game where you pretend you're inept in a simulation of a fake office job where everything appears ridiculously cartoonish and nothing really needs to be done is presumably someone, somewhere's idea of fun.
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The U.K. has rushed to repair its cherished special relationship with the U.S. after an email leak showed Britain's ambassador to the U.S. called the Trump administration "inept" and "uniquely dysfunctional," among other unflattering terms.
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U.S. President Donald Trump had attacked British Prime Minister Theresa May and her U.S. envoy Kim Darroch on Twitter, after the latter was revealed to have branded the White House "inept" in leaked diplomatic cables.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Venezuela's economy is a wreck, but the Bolivarian revolution's inept leader, President Nicolas Maduro, has probably done just enough to avoid being forced from office in 2017, unless by Chavista colleagues.
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True to that spirit, Trump used parts of his two Wednesday post-signing statements to attack Congress as woefully inept, calling up their failure to pass healthcare reform and blaming them for deteriorating Russian relations.
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Triggered by a deadly fire in the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest that lacked emergency exits and other safety measures, the protests called for sweeping change in Romania to address chronically inept public administration and graft.
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Instead, in this movie, we see the Manson Family as comically inept, highlighting the true horror of these murders — which is that if things had been even slightly different, these idiots would've been easily thwarted.
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"We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch reportedly wrote to senior British politicians in one memo.
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As Trump turned to Putin for "guidance" on Zelensky, the former KGB officer reportedly portrayed the newly-elected Ukrainian leader as an inept former comedian who's linked to an oligarch on bad terms with Moscow.
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" In another, Darroch reportedly wrote to senior politicians in Britain, "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.
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Then when voters handed Republicans control of Congress in 2014, GOP leaders not only failed to enact the conservative agenda they had promised; they proved themselves as inept at running Congress as Democrats had been.
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"The people of Puerto Rico are wonderful but the inept politicians are trying to use the massive and ridiculously high amounts of hurricane/disaster funding to pay off other obligations," Trump tweeted on October 23.
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" When it came out, the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith described it as "a fascinating if lumpish bit of Shermaniana," while Ms. Smith's movie-critic colleague Stephen Holden panned it as "sadly inept.
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Here is a sampling of some of Trump's more colorful comments about the United Nations: Ineptitude Trump's main charge against the United Nations during the 2016 campaign was that the international body was simply inept.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to Washington resigned on Wednesday after Donald Trump labeled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May has given her full support to Washington envoy Kim Darroch after he described Trump's administration as "dysfunctional" and "inept" in memos that were leaked to a British newspaper on Sunday.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Trump Embraces Shadowy Plots, Eroding Trust" (news analysis, front page, May 29): Donald Trump is an inept president, but he continues to demonstrate that he is a skillful con man.
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Like Biden, Sanders slammed the Trump administration as inept in the face of a global pandemic as he urged the formation of a bipartisan panel of health experts to lead the fight against the virus.
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You can have as many bad actors on stage as you want — greedy bankers, inept regulators, conflicted credit rating agencies — but unless there is significant leverage in the system, there's little danger of a crisis.
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The people of Iraq have had much to protest: Their post-Saddam government has been shot through with corruption and sectarianism while proving utterly inept at security operations and the provision of basic public services.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - When Romania's leftist government collapsed a year ago amid outrage over a deadly nightclub fire, many people spied an opportunity for sweeping change in a country plagued by corruption and inept public services.
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They also were slower and slightly more inept during the routine and, afterward, signified on the questionnaire that they felt resigned about not having done well and did not wish to think about their errors.
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Finally, Trump was ill-served by his inept son, Don Jr., whose bungled efforts to solicit damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian lawyer would have constituted collusion, if anything had come of it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has begun the process of recruiting a new ambassador to the United States to replace the last one who resigned in the summer after he branded President Donald Trump's administration inept.
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Earlier, the Peña Nieto administration took steps to mitigate criticism at home and from abroad over its inept handling of the case by allowing that international team, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts, to investigate.
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As long as it's (to take a partial, but broadly representative sample) shameful, offensive, idiotic, rude, humiliating, repulsive, violent, evil, inept, self-indulgent or self-satisfied, retrograde, or naïve, The Discourse can work with it.
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As embarrassing as it is for Texans to admit to outsiders, who know him mostly for his comically inept 2012 presidential run, Mr. Perry outwitted pretty much everyone in the state for about 16 years.
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The Democratic Party of the 2000s and 230s was probably much more corrupt and inept than the Democratic Party of today—but back then it lived in the neighborhood, as it no longer does today.
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This relationship does not seem destined to last, since Alice is comically inept at child-rearing; one of my favorite scenes involves Shane doing a much better job handling a kid crisis than Alice does.
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You can have as many bad actors on stage as you want — greedy bankers, inept regulators, conflicted credit rating agencies — but unless there is significant leverage in the system, there's little danger of a crisis.
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The Rangers were awarded their first power play in the opening minute of the second period but were so inept at getting the puck up the ice that even more boos rained down on them.
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This is the paradox of Hillary Clinton: She has achieved something no one else in the history of American politics has even come close to doing, yet she is widely considered an inept, flawed candidate.
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When more video showed Rice punching Palmer in the face and knocking her to the elevator floor, Goodell suspended Rice indefinitely, but the league's inept handling of the case had already become a full-blown debacle.
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Far away from FIFA's glass-encased and Bond-villainesque Zurich offices, but somewhere among the shopping malls, mind-numbing traffic and tropical heat of Jakarta, you can find evidence of the international soccer organization's inept governance.
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Trump may be "inept," as Ambassador Darroch cabled to London, but he presides over the largest economy in the world and the most capable military, and whoever succeeds Trump will likely have the same good fortune.
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Mr Trump may not be the first occupant of the White House to have an uncertain relationship with faith, but his attempts to present himself as minimally religious have always been inept, to put it mildly.
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He was, in my view, pretty inept in the campaign, except in that one final debate in New Hampshire when he made Senator Marco Rubio look like an amateur robot who couldn't think on his feet.
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Inept economic management is one of the possibilities, but the experience shows that they just want to hitch a free ride on the "locomotive U.S.A." That's called beggar-thy-neighbor mercantilism of export-driven growth economies.
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They're reportedly developing a sequel film following the gang of werewolves from the original movie called—naturally—We're Wolves, and a stand-alone series about the inept cops from Shadows is currently airing in New Zealand.
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"People have not forgotten him stabbing his colleague in the front," says one MP. By contrast, Mr Johnson proved alarmingly inept as foreign secretary and chickened out of running in 2016 after losing Mr Gove's support.
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His reluctance to antagonize Trump was evident earlier this month when he failed to defend Britain's ambassador to Washington after diplomatic memos in which Kim Darroch described Trump's administration as "inept" were leaked to a newspaper.
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During a televised debate against rival Jeremy Hunt, Johnson refused to confirm that he would keep US ambassador Kim Darroch in his post, after Darroch's cables describing the Trump administration as "inept" and "incompetent" were leaked.
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The Mail on Sunday newspaper last week published cables from Kim Darroch, Britain's ambassador to the United States, in which he called the Trump administration "inept", prompting the president to label him "very stupid" and "wacky".
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His reluctance to antagonise Trump was evident earlier this month when he failed to defend Britain's ambassador to Washington after diplomatic memos in which Kim Darroch described Trump's administration as "inept" were leaked to a newspaper.
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And while Thailand struggles under an inept military dictatorship, and Malaysia suffers under its scandal-ridden leader's increasingly unhelpful hold on power, under Mr Aquino the Philippines has seen improvements in economic management, transparency and governance.
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The six officers involved were later charged in his death, but the city's current mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was criticized for a response that was perceived as inept and later announced she would not seek reelection.
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"The fact that he made fun of all the deaths that happened there in Puerto Rico, the catastrophe that there was during Maria and after Maria, it just shows that he's an inept leader," Guzmán said.
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That would explain a lot, except there's not enough sun; the continuity is so inept that we get whisked directly from a bright and glorious day, in one shot, to another that looks gray and morose.
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Donald Trump proved himself both woefully inept at making tough deals and also demonstrated that his yearlong strategy of trying to govern to the exclusion of Democrats and playing to a narrow base is fatally flawed.
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Editorial Donald Trump has not proved himself to be much of a talent scout; as president he has tended to pick far-right zealots, inept toadies, conflicted swamp dwellers and unqualified family members for top jobs.
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In an October tweet, the president triggered an outcry when he accused Puerto Rico's "inept" leaders of trying to use "the massive and ridiculously high" amount of disaster aid to pay off the commonwealth's high debts.
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All that is required are policies that give individuals and businesses more power to operate freely and that limit efforts by inept, greedy government bureaucrats in Washington to meddle and manipulate markets they don't fully understand.
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Then Mr. Trump will have to say whether he accepts the agencies' basic findings on Russia's role or holds to his previous contention that inept, politicized American spies have gotten the perpetrator of the hacking wrong.
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Hardworking families deserve far better than Trump's totally inept and irresponsible leadership in the face of such a dire emergency, and we're going to make sure voters know just how dangerously the president is failing them.
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Aside from the cold hard numbers showing that retirement savings have earned me thousands of dollars, there&aposs an emotional high from knowing that I&aposm not as inept with money as I thought I was.
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The sins of these two men could not be further apart, yet mainstream journalists attack Republicans as inept, while Democrats like Menendez obliterate civic norms by stalling Republican nominees at rates that far surpass his predecessors.
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Some of the innovations didn't pay off — the inept 2011 number in which the Rockettes battled video-game beasties has mercifully been retired — but the new edition's spruced-up and expanded projections are mostly impressively elegant.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote at one point, according to the British news outlet.
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But mostly, Trump's desperate scratching at his phone revealed a chief executive who has been historically inept in his first year, has no idea how to right the ship, and is increasingly frustrated by his own impotence.
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The nomination could also buy him some political capital amid raging controversies over the inept rollout of his immigration measures that kept many Republicans in the dark and raised questions over the basic competence of his administration.
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Unfortunately because TfL are so inept they've let it go on for such a long time and now we need to backtrack to actually put back in place how it should have been in the first place.
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He's chief technology officer at the company he co-founded, but he's underappreciated by his coworkers, and inept at socializing with them, apart from new engineering hire Nanette (Cristin Milioti), who clearly admires Robert and his work.
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Either they are the single most inept company or they are trying to delay any withdrawal of funds due to the recent controversy of using inside informationNovember 22016, FanDuel:I joined FanDuel on line and started playing Games.
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And it's in keeping with this week's Themes: even the Sand Snakes' gory hijinks are part of an overall tide of women getting back up after inept / crazy male rulers fucked them over one too many times.
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I will still watch the Jets, and I will still curse them when they find a spectacularly inept way to lose to the spectacularly mediocre Jeff Fisher, but it also seems weird that I will do that.
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It seems like it could actually be a cool option for the mostly musically inept (like myself), who might think they have a solid sense of sound but haven't ever learned how to put those sounds together.
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As our expectations now line up more closely with the reality of our fallible, corrupt, inept government, Americans are — more than ever — uniting in our desire to limit the role of the federal government in our lives.
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The main takeaway from Trump's first six months in office is that he doesn't know what he's doing and he isn't learning—and that has been best encapsulated by his inept struggle to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Defense lawyers and police-reform activists have pushed prosecutors to not only keep lists of problematic officers but in some cases to make them public, arguing they are an effective tool for sidelining dishonest or inept police.
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"A corrupt, self-obsessed, inept moron who somehow becomes president of the United States — that's the character that I play on HBO's 'Veep,' " Louis-Dreyfus says in a video released Tuesday by Local Majority, a Democratic PAC.
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In the end, the Knicks — playing without Carmelo Anthony, who sat out with a migraine headache — proved more inept than the Sacramento Kings, who slunk away from the Garden with an 239.8-230 victory, their 219.3th win.
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LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to Washington resigned on Wednesday after Donald Trump labelled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos from the envoy in which he branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) - The leak of confidential memos from Britain's ambassador to the United States in which he describes President Donald Trump's administration as "dysfunctional" and "inept" could damage relations, a British minister said on Monday.
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That was the voice of Hyperallergic staff writer Seph Rodney, who proposed a model from the UK, which would essentially amount to the CCRB (Civilian Complaint Review Board) and is widely known to be corrupt and inept.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at "foolish" British Prime Minister Theresa May and her "wacky" Washington ambassador on Tuesday, stepping up a tirade against a close ally whose envoy had branded his administration inept.
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Perhaps not, but we can certainly see that his behavior reflects someone who is narcissistic, lacking in empathy, corrupt, incurious, inept, lacking in knowledge, focused on reality-show norms and unwilling to think of country over self.
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Geno Smith may have provided a few highlights for the team to focus on, but his two fumbles erased most of his positive plays, and the team's defense continued to look inept in a loss to Oakland.
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Luckily, Nick Padilla of Brooklyn's Alameda has a recipe for bacon-wrapped country pâté—traditionally known as pâté de campagne—that is simple enough to make for even the most kitchen-inept of Anglo-Saxons among us.
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Mattie is a gifted teenage student at the local school; a few brief liaisons with her inept boyfriend lead to the inevitable outcome, and to Mattie's counting her weeks of pregnancy and sifting through her meager options.
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But one has to wonder by what right a regime remains in office when it has been so dishonest, greedy and inept, managing only to foment massive inflation and starve the countryside and the working-class suburbs.
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The Mets' inept play behind deGrom may be the most fitting illustration of their malaise, which now includes a 4-3 loss in the first game of Monday's rain-soaked doubleheader against the division rival Atlanta Braves.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Long plagued by corruption and inept government, people in the Democratic Republic of Congo were confronting a new problem on Friday: thousands of prisoners on the lam, including hard-core felons and possibly war criminals.
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His death in this week's episode is treated like a sad inevitability, as the inept schemes and crippling pettiness of a not-so-clever man lead to another needless fatality and open the door to still more.
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This is the third-party-payer problem, and if Republicans had been more modest and less inept in advancing a realistic health care agenda, they might have spent the past seven years understanding, explaining and changing it.
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In Ecuador in 2000, Venezuela in 2002, Honduras in 2009, and now in Bolivia, opposition groups applauded when the army stepped in to remove elected governments they viewed as inept, corrupt or a threat to democratic institutions.
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Nick: It does seem like convenient, lazy storytelling to use four new characters who are inept enough to be saved by a 10-year-old girl to do a lot of the heavy lifting around the time-jump.
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This divergence is down to the fact that short-run economic growth and tenure are not everything; other factors—like wars, social unrest, or the presence on the ballot of an historically inept and divisive candidate—also matter.
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"Norm of the North," an almost entirely misbegotten computer-animated film, makes a small concession to the actuality of polar bear existence by showing its titular bear hero to be a hunter, albeit an inept one, of seals.
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It puts you in command of a single aspect of the first, last, and only defense against the scum of the universe, while your largely inept friends struggle to deal with their own roles in protecting the planet.
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Another hurricane, Katrina, had battered the presidency of George W. Bush in 2005, when the combination of an inept response on the ground and tone-deaf comments by the president created an impression of incompetent and unfeeling government.
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During a televised debate against Hunt, Johnson refused to confirm that he would keep Britain's ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch in his post, after Darroch's cables describing the Trump administration as "inept" and "incompetent" were leaked.
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In the wake of his equivocal response to a violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a young woman was killed, we argued that America's president was "politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office".
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The TCJA is either the most inept financial deal ever negotiated on behalf of the American taxpayer or a scam perpetrated against the American taxpayer by Congress and the president, both knowing very well what they were doing.
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In the first showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, the presidential candidates exchanged blows on trade and foreign policy, called each other racist and inept, and could not resist letting out stray smirks or occasional sniffles.
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It infused $5 billion in more funding for the Department of Veteran Affairs to hire new medical staff, and made it easier for veterans to seek care outside the system as well as to fire inept VA employees.
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"We don't really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept," Darroch wrote in one particularly damning cable, according to The Mail on Sunday.
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A woman is found dead at the midpoint of the Channel Tunnel, and cops from both countries — the socially inept French detective Elise Wasserman (Clémence Poésy) and her jokey British counterpart, Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) — are called in.
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The former London mayor has been heavily criticized by lawmakers in his own party and the opposition for failing to defend Kim Darroch after Donald Trump attacked the envoy for leaked remarks describing the U.S. administration as inept.
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Writing my book on Ella Baker, the civil rights organizer, I learned that the F.B.I. surveillance of her was so inept that an agent mistook her husband for her cousin, a fact that could easily have been verified.
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The opening, a campy sendup of the original "Star Trek," turns out to be a virtual-reality simulation, created by Robert Daly (Jesse Plemons), a socially inept coding wizard who's an outcast at the very company he founded.
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Gruden is 21124-2166 as the Raiders' coach and has watched his defense look inept each week, while his offense — the entire reason he was brought back to the league — has yet to score more than 20 points.
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And a further side note: the only time the amendment was briefly considered by a President's staffers was for Ronald Reagan, who staffers thought for a time was "inept and inattentive," according to a memo at the time.
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" The two men also seemed to be on the same side in a diplomatic row two weeks ago after leaked cables written by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, described Mr. Trump as "clumsy and inept.
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" The two men also seemed to be on the same side in a diplomatic row two weeks ago after leaked cables written by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Kim Darroch, described Mr. Trump as "clumsy and inept.
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Screeners are available online — and presumably could be tracked to individual accounts to suggest who should be able to vote on which awards — but this system would be easy enough to get around for even the technically inept.
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His rhythm is one second off, Phoenix's defense is so inept as to invite the dunk itself, Jack simply reaches for true style and fails, an act of hubris that makes the viewer pity him and his small ambitions.
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The truth may be that it is all of these things — directed by the Kremlin at times while also allowed to pursue its mercenary greed, inept at times but also just about competent and reckless enough to be dangerous.
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The contrast served as a perfect example of the show's inept handling of the Jackson-Olympios disaster: Let's get through this cheesy wedding of two Bachelor Nation also-rans in order to get to more pablum from Chris Harrison!
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After his inept first response to the killing of a woman in Charlottesville by a white supremacist, he eventually delivered a speech to mollify those who said he had given racists the impression that he was on their side.
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Except because Anne-Marie is a karate champion and I am fundamentally physically inept, what this actually meant is that I would spend two hours getting absolutely thrashed and photographed at the same time, before having it published online.
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It didn't become a major issue only due to Bobby Wood and Gyasi Zardes, center forwards by trade, proving to be as inept as feared at creating width, with Wood eventually being subbed off following a thoroughly anonymous performance.
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"There have been some striking examples of technology fueling positive democratic change," Abramowitz said, pointing to Lebanon, Algeria, and Hong Kong, where activists are using the internet and smartphones to hold "corrupt and inept politicians" accountable to the people.
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Mitt Romney, in a characteristically inept attempt at ensuring hardliners that he was one of them, ran for president in 2012 on "self-deportation" and a promise to veto the DREAM Act, the legislative basis for what became DACA.
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Last week, Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper published memos from Kim Darroch in which he described Donald Trump's administration as "inept" and "dysfunctional", prompting an angry response from the U.S. president and causing the envoy to announce his resignation.
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Safety D.J. Swearinger intercepted two passes, Matt Ioannidis had 2½ sacks, and the NFC East-leading Washington Redskins rode their defense to a third straight win, a 20-13 decision over the offensively inept New York Giants on Sunday.
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These ineffectual measures would be punctuated by rage-fueled tweets aimed at Jerome Powell (for not pushing negative interest rates), Xi Jinping (for not having immediately surrendered to an inept trade warrior), and the media (for the usual stuff).
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This is highly unlikely to happen, in view of the growing "buyer's remorse" now becoming obvious among convention-goers in recent weeks, as the Trump campaign continues to show itself profoundly inept and unprepared to take on the Democrats.
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But the latest rumors swirling around Washington sound a lot more credible in the wake of the inept handling of the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and the continuing flood of damaging leaks from anonymous "inside" sources.
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The film carries on with that kind of blithe irreverence for a while, and your mileage may vary on how hilarious you find Waititi treating just about every adult Nazi around Jojo as either comically cynical, inept, or both.
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In the video for "All the Small Things," they dressed up as members of an unusually inept boy band, but as the song ascended the pop chart, eventually reaching No. 2182, the parody began to seem like a prophecy.
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A review by lawmakers on the Home Affairs Select Committee in October 2014 criticized what it called the police's "inept handling" of the situation, but said there had been nothing wrong in the BBC's decision to run the story.
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Professor Kwong was also a producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province," which depicted the Chinese government's inept response to a catastrophic earthquake in 2008 that killed tens of thousands of people.
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"No one's gotta know," the leader of his squad (David Lyons) says, worrying about the impact of a cop killing a black teenager, proceeding to mount what turns out to be a pretty inept attempt to cover Pete's tracks.
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New York City's notoriously inept and politically compromised Board of Elections was overwhelmed on Election Day by a whopping 38% turnout, perforated two-page ballots that needed to be torn in two before being fed into scanners, and light rain.
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Instead, the Cuban people, like the rest of the world, is seeing the face of an angry, vindictive America; not inviting or inspiring as it used to be, but angry, mean-spirited and, on top of it all, pretty inept.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he "will no longer deal" with the British ambassador to the United States, after a weekend news report that the UK diplomat had described Trump's administration as dysfunctional, clumsy and inept.
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In a twist typical of May's shoddy and inept leadership, she tried to force her cabinet into collective responsibility for a Brexit policy that walked back from May's own campaign promises and policy statements, only for the gambit to backfire.
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"Every year, a large amount of funds allocated for irrigation lie unutilized and that's because of lethargy, red tape, inept administration and a lack of political will," said Ashok Gulati, an agricultural economist, who formerly advised the government on crop prices.
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Malick, too, still inspires a passionate minority of hardcore devotees who will defend everything he does, no matter how inept or ludicrous, out of some bizarre sense of base loyalty towards the man who made Days of Heaven 39 years ago.
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"Instead of confronting them and saying, 'You're not allowed to investigate,' the government tactic has been to discredit them here, saying that these are inventions, that it's inept, that it doesn't work,'" said Ilán Semo, political historian at the Iberoamerican University.
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While there, Tyrion manages to blunt some of Joffrey's cruelest and more inept inclinations and successfully defends the castle from Stannis Baratheon's army using that bright green wildfire, although he suffers a deep gash across his face that nearly kills him.
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The issue is whether the decision of Mr Buck's stunningly inept court-appointed lawyer to put a psychologist on the stand who peddled unadulterated racism merits another sentencing trial untainted by discredited theories about the violent propensities of black men.
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And for a terrible period when his oncologist is away, he is treated as a problem and not a patient by an inept medical resident who nearly hastens his death by denying him one of the drugs he desperately needs.
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He's lost his credibility, and his inept... (APPLAUSE) HUCKABEE: ...inability to work with Congress and pass legislation has led him to do what I never even imagined doing as a governor, and that's just going and doing it my own way.
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Once Claire is thrown out of her comfort zone and into real, trying situations that involve running away from scary dinosaurs, she's shown to be pretty inept, and keen to rely on Owen to save her with his strong man arms.
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This was made clear in the Brexit referendum, when most working-class voters preferred Leave, and also in last year's general election, when the Tories made advances in Labour heartlands despite running one of the most inept campaigns in memory.
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The show, in which Cumberbatch plays Holmes as a haughty, socially inept detective to Martin Freeman's calm, practical Dr. John Watson, is the most popular TV drama in Britain, according to ratings data, and has been sold to 180 other countries.
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Pierce, 60, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, replaces Kim Darroch who resigned last July after U.S. President Donald Trump labeled him "stupid" and "wacky" following the release of confidential memos in which he had branded the U.S. president's administration inept.
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Are they so inept that they can't devise a strategy to overcome the left's predictable tactics and put them on the defensive for their failed, expensive and unnecessary programs, along with their refusal to reform entitlements, the real driver of debt?
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Instead of making Peña Nieto look statesmanlike, however, last Wednesday's meeting left the president looking servile and politically inept as he allowed Trump to dominate the subsequent press conference and even pat him on the back when it was over.
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" Meanwhile he notes that while Donald Trump the president railed against inept governments, Donald Trump the property developer played them expertly to win permits and subsidies: "If indeed the public sector is dysfunctional then Trump is the monster it created.
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He offered nothing but positive support for the Montreal effort, but the commissioner also warned his Canadian audience of obstacles ahead before MLB returns to a city it left in 2004 because of poor attendance, inept ownership and a decaying stadium.
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" Continuing, Baldoni said, "It's hard to explain, but I feel like my entire life has been about getting ready for this experience and yet at the same time I feel completely inept and not ready to be a dad again.
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Disappointingly, the Security Council has been inept in resolving the Syrian crisis, so I do not hold out any great hopes for a coming together over this -- unless the council's permanent members, also known as the Permanent Five, lead the way.
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Memos from Darroch describing the Trump administration as inept were leaked to a British newspaper, infuriating Trump, who launched a Twitter attack on Tuesday on both the envoy and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May, who had given Darroch her full support.
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Two days later, Trump—dissatisfied by the persistence of the Russia scandal—layered over his committed but comically inept press secretary Sean Spicer, hiring slippery Wall Street veteran Anthony Scaramucci (a former Democrat and Trump critic) to be his communications director.
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Over a decade has passed since Major League Baseball left Montreal for good, brought low by a sequence of inept owners—including, at the end, Major League Baseball itself—a non-supportive media and business community, and an indifferent fan base.
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The British prime minister, already reeling from a humiliating election that cost her Conservative Party the majority in Parliament, has been shockingly inept in responding to the high-rise fire in London that has left at least 30 people dead.
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"Trump's tweets on Sunday were aimed at "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" who "came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all).
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Whether we would like to blame it on a hypertension-inducing election season or good old-fashioned partisanship, the result is the same: a legislative branch that is completely inept at a time when very important issues are on the docket.
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Given how inept the Trump administration has been in pushing other controversial legislation, such as immigration reform, it will be folly to look to the administration to provide much leadership in securing congressional enactment of even modest changes in DFA.
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In Syria, Obama and Clinton's inept support of rebel groups and their phony drawing of "red lines" have resulted in chaos, violence and tumult throughout the country, including the mass slaughter of civilians and an exodus of 85033 million refugees.
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With the help of a noble if nitwitted giant, a few inept but big-hearted student magicians, even a concerned if somewhat distant centaur, Harry takes on powers bigger and stronger than him, growing older and wiser in the process.
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Although I'm obviously biased, my experience is that small companies can be just as inept, and the big ones have the resources to invest in deep research and take a long-term point of view that smaller ones can't afford.
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Fortunately this effort to bail out coal-burning utilities is so inept and nonsensical that it has united in opposition to it conservative regulators and lawmakers, the oil and gas industry, and environmentalists, and it is unlikely to survive legal challenges.
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There's always one team positioned to pounce on the mistakes of the inept franchises ahead of them in the draft, and that could be Oakland if they wind up with one of the best corners on the board at 14.
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Fund manager Merlon Capital Partners called AMP's sale "preposterous" and "inept" and threatened to lobby other investors to overthrow the board - many of whom were only appointed earlier this year after others were forced out because of revelations at the inquiry.
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From the Times: As the piece points out, some of the blame here has to fall on an insanely inept (if also deeply overburdened) IRS and a tax code that has made carveouts for rich people its own cottage industry.
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A few other folks further complicate things, notably Donald (James Badge Dale), a good, principled cop who oversees the most sadly (and disastrously) inept police force since the Keystone Kops, and Vernon (a determined-looking Alexander Skarsgard), Medora's very bad husband.
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It's a classic commedia all'italiana with a seasonal twist: A bunch of inept Italian politicians accompany the prime minister on a state visit to Hungary, mistresses in tow, make depressingly tame jokes and encounter a dead Santa in a hotel room.
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The show's inept spin on the Dorne subplot turned up in the season six premiere, mostly so it could be wrapped up, and Benioff and Weiss are either writing out or bringing together as many characters as they possibly can.
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This works best, of course, with the scenes involving the staging of the play within the play by the inept amateur thespians known as the "rude mechanicals" — here including a barista, a bike courier and a hawker in a TodayTix vest.
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Andrew, Nick, Connie, and Maurice (Nick Kroll) helped rescue her from the Depression Ward, and along the way, Nick looked for a new hormone monster after the inept Tyler (also also Kroll) was fired for working with the Shame Wizard.
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Either they capture the government directly with campaign contributions and lobbying and bought-and-paid-for experts or they take the legs out from underneath it by persuading everyone that the government won't help you — it's too inept and too unwilling.
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Should the government guarantee investment, the company could attempt construction with minimized risk, and if that fails, head home while casting Canada's politicians as an inept scapegoat (and potentially setting up a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Canada under Nafta).
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