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But most seem to think the senator is inept at best and a liar at worst.

Frankand Eddie are a pair of inept would-be wise guys trying to scare up enough money to get out of the small Texas town they call home.

the irascible, autocratic Ford would prove as inept a chief executive in his later years as he had been brilliant in his youth.

Now imagine working that HARD year in and year out, only to be rewarded with an inept supporting cast and an early exit out of the playoffs.

With a gentleness that blurred into docility, Hermann was to prove inept as a businessman and forever impractical in financial matters.

Computers are often inept at understanding the meaning of a word because that meaning depends on the context in which the word is used.

Inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, Calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.

Husband: I know, but the workers said that because I'm so inept they had to get rid of me to keep their jobs. It was a mutiny.

Fortunately, Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Perkins, rejected the great author's inept title and replaced it with his own brilliant choice.

Only inept officials would burden children with such a requirement rather than install speed bumps, others insisted.

The result has been a succession of inept leaders and the absence of a coherent policy agenda.

Due to inept management and bad decisions, the company's profits went down the drain.

But the analytical mind he uses to devise business models is just as sharp in assessing the military's inept talent management.

At a time when most of the country's political leaders are despised as venal, lazy or inept, its senior jurist is held in esteem.

Chairman Huang is fortunate because many corrupt and inept politicians get a bullet to the back of the head.

While Keynes set the direction of Britain's wartime finance, Schumpeter was under observation by inept agents of the FBI.

When we have invested a lot in a choice that turns out to be bad, we're really inept at admitting that it didn't make rational sense.

At the same time, every poll shows admiration for the U. S. diminishing abroad, thanks mainly to its inept flailing in Iraq.

Namely, in principle, things that make a sign to you, but that you understand nothing about are inept.

We have long been a joke to other club's supporters and the media, because of the two useless, inept and broke cowboys.

Some of China's apparently inept diplomacy may be a result of poorly co-ordinated foreign policy.

Both respect Chinese culture, but look down on modern Chinese as backwards and inept.

Ever more Westerners understandably ask why their compatriots must keep dying to prop up the inept and corrupt Mr Karzai.

The result? Transferring leads made effective reps appear to be inept while making ineffective ones appear to be top performers.

Why is the technology industry generally so inept at designing the interactive parts of digital products?

The answer is through a combination of political expediency, inept tactics and fumbled diplomacy.

What are they going to do about it, send an inept pilot to crash into it, unlawfully detain the crew, and steal US equipment? Oh, wait. . .

Du Lala's team leader quit in an irresponsible way; her boss is inept; and the staff around her is either stupid or overly-sophisticated.

Dickinson's broken meter, unusual rhythmic patterns, and assonance struck even respected critics of the time as sloppy and inept.

The police have proven peculiarly inept at stemming sporadic but recurrent bouts of sectarian strife.

Hoover was inept at politics as he was superb administration.

Alas, Vice President King succumbed after just 45 insignificant days in office as part of an inept and disgraceful administration.

If overpaying hugely for a rival does not count as inept, then what does?

Defying the corrupt, inept, brutal generals who rule them, they took to the streets in their hundreds of thousands to demand democracy.

Through hostile takeover the agency costs can be reduced by replacing the inept executives.

Previous civilian administrations have been corrupt and inept, but so has the army rule that has routinely supplanted them.

The weakness of non-military institutions has been obvious during the inept civilian response to the current floods.

Even so, via her inept writing one can nonetheless sense her sincerity and faintly see a sketch by another urban youth.

Emerson can't believe that the seemingly inept Morley is a German spy, but could he be mistaken?

There's some vague talk about school choice , but Republicans are inept when talking about human capital policies .

Others on the right deplore the mistakes of inept regulation, lax monetary policy and poor policy responses.

Venal and inept, his government surely needs to be replaced.

Some people are naturally graceful on the dance floor , while others seem burdened by two inept left feet . Blame it on the Ice Age .

That made systems which relied on them good at spotting narrow classes of objects but inept at discerning anything else.

That way the socially skilled lose their advantage over the socially inept.

Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.

Zhang says Chen is right if he is talking about the country's lower-tier, often inept auto makers that crowd the market.

This proved handy after Mr Thaksin's allies won an election in December 2007 and an inept military government was disbanded.

This is, in part, an unwanted by-product of decentralisation : inept local authorities sit on funds for projects they cannot get started.

One of the biggest myths about online education is that students will become socially inept.

However, inept but thrifty Buffett Investment Management would still have accumulated $82m.

One of the main frustrations is that Indian rulings have often been inept.

At the battle of Crecy in 1346, the inept Philip annihilated his own army.

Pakistan must help itself first by taking measures to cut out corruption, bearacrasy and inept incompetent management.

Executives at Verizon, who had agreed to serve as the phone's exclusive carrier, would look inept.

Bob, somewhat inept with a knife, can cut upone ounce of vegetables per minute, or make two hors d'oeuvres per minute.

I was very gullible and children would ridicule me for being socially inept.

The army has mostly stepped in when inept civilian governments were on the brink of collapse.

In fact, those people who were most inept were also the most likely to overestimate their abilities.

The shy, the introverted and the socially inept can all hunker down before a glowing computer and whisper to the world.

John Henry Patterson, who founded the National Cash Register Company in 1884, would set the desks of inept employees on fire.

China has made things worse for itself by its inept handling of supply arrangements.

his cumbersome writing style; if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?

In the SARS epidemic in 2003, the technocrats were initially inept too, putting face-saving ahead of epidemiology.

The regulators have become toothless and inept as watchdogs.

It is well acknowledged that baby-face squad is inept for champion chaser under the contemporary soccer circumstance.

Some Myanmar-watchers think that the frustration of the Burmese people, already angry enough at their inept rulers, will now boil over.

When it comes to girls, Michael is socially inept and awkward.

Walter is inept at many things; he is an absent-minded driver, he can't handle simple mechanical tasks, and he forgets things easily.

Because of their body shape, seahorses are rather inept swimmers and can easily die of exhaustion when caught in storm-roiled seas.

He has proved inept at forging the political deals required to approve his reforms.

It's no skin off their nose if someone else hires away an inept employee.

First, though, you have to establish something else: Not Completely Inept.

But nerds are socially inept, and he is anything but.

Perhaps they should add inept parents to the list.

Yes, you are often clumsy, even inept.

He wanted to hold hands. I was young, inept and scared.

inept handling of the account.

HF radio transceiver inept using all mode.

Not competent or skillful; inept.

I've never heard anyone so inept at making speeches.

64 min: An inept challenge from Kranjcar on Evra gives United a free kick on the edge of the box.

If the other person doesn't follow through, you're left looking inept.

If the other person doesn't follow through, you're left seeing inept.

Do you yearn for intimate relationships yet feel that you are too socially inept to obtain them?

inept student in their class.

Inept or unwise rule; misgovernment.

They're called managers -- a word that techies have a tendency to reject because so many corporate managers are inept .

A person regarded as stupid, inept, or unattractive.

The government's early relief efforts were inept.

The trouble is that, with no consensus about the past, Japan's establishment is inept better future.

The trouble is that, with no consensus about the past, Japan's establishment is inept at articulating a better future.

In reality Alamein is an inept, wannabe gangster who has been in jail for robbery.

One who is insensitive can be correct in theory but inept in practice.

Try getting a friend in on the deal, one who is perhaps as kitchen inept as you are, and start a cooking challenge.

It is not surprising that Toyota's response has been dilatory and inept, because crisis management in Japan is grossly undeveloped.

i seem to be inept at everything except my work

Insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer, INEPT

They're blaming the economy but I think it's personal. They said I'm inept

No presidential candidate in the future will be so inept that

a completely inept attempt at humor