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1. As the Naud were nearly completely inept at stellar navigation, the best they could hope was to only ever venture a little ways from wherever they had been before; hence the looping reminders
2. I suppose, rather than compare Obama to Lincoln, or FDR, or even to the inept Jimmy Carter, the most appropriate comparison would be to Chauncey Gardner, the character portrayed by Peter Sellers in the movie „Being There
3. In this silent movie, Charlie Chaplin played a woefully inept day laborer with a crush on the boss’s daughter
4. The ineffectiveness of the ―United‖ Nations in brokering ―the peace‖ could be traced to some undefined moment in history when the United States and its European Allies—there was such a time!—abdicated their leadership positions that had become too unwieldy, or perhaps they simply grew weary or complacent or both and decided to observe geo-political events from the sidelines, passing the torch to inept, incipiently corrupt Third World nations lacking the proven capacity to govern by example
5. If he had, it would have been enough for even the most socially inept, slow-witted and sentimentally detached human to understand that Amonas was deeply troubled
6. There were two new PFC medics who seemed to be doing a decent job, despite Staff Sergeant Purcell’s inept supervision
7. He was still trying to discern the truth in her eyes, her voice, her face, but he had proven quiet inept at it so far
8. Those programs and our inept Congress is leading us to bankruptcy
9. All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you’re too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to
10. Noticing that I was inept at ironing my husband’s shirts, she told me that in her village everyone could see how much a wife loved her husband by how well his shirts were ironed
11. “My eyes stay the same, but I’m left inept and defenseless
12. Palin and the inept conduct of the Republican campaign diverted what scant attention there was away from the true nature of Obama’s background and makeup
13. The truth of the situation was that Norm had been responsible for saving the lives of his entire unit, but that story never came out and an inept Five-Star-General’s image was salvaged
14. It took 35 years for an inept Congress to figure out that
15. back to the public hospital because she believed that they were inept
16. The problem is that the lazy and inept now outnumber the energetic and productive
17. I share his nationality, middle name, red beard (before mine went grey) and socially inept manner
18. of the comedies that Woody Allen stars in as well as directs, he plays an inept klutz whose good
19. The bastards were inept, he thought,
20. The Kantsler is seriously considering that a messenger -- not the inept John-Paul but someone we can trust, to venture out to Vancouver to discover this intruder's real identity
21. seeing as how our chicken rustlers were obviously totally inept (the birds
22. but that she was inept at handing the bidding process in reselling these cars
23. The fact is that this generation is more inept at making marriage work compared to our peers some forty years ago
24. No one was prosecuted in any of these killings even though the victims included many inept top ranking police officials placed in the jobs, not for their skills, but for their willingness to persecute opponents to the “Born Again”
25. others feeling inept, confused, or stupid
26. now, the manuscript was horribly inept in every
27. discover I was total y inept at backing the trailer
28. � The German lieutenant, being inept at the art of recognizing ships, then ordered his men to fire on it
29. Was Spalding as clever and as cunning as he wanted people to think? Or was he merely an unwittingly inept and short-sighted opportunist motivated by his self-serving interests who was used by someone wanting to keep their identity secret in the land deal? Perhaps whoever that party was really had other motives in getting Spalding involved
30. They lie out both sides of their mouths and the public can’t get enough because politicians say exactly what they think the voters want to hear, and because the voters are fixated with trying to work the system for personal advantage, they really are too inept and disorganized to demand accountability, or even the truth
31. In typical knee-jerk reactions American politicians have been so inept as to react to
32. His helpless, inept, and now overconfident brother, willing to lumber his way into any ridiculous situation because he knew that somehow it always worked out in the end
33. With all the CBC’s usual inept planning ability, they hadn’t thought to
34. It is this conception that seems finally to be proving itself inept in India
35. And, of course, there�s always the possibility that it�s just a pointless attack by an inept or insane leader
36. the inept business practices of his partners
37. For someone so inept and clumsy, he was a wealth of information, and once again, Frankie was right
38. themselves as neither greedy nor inept, but as guardians of
39. more on me being an inept idiot than the facts about the case
40. The fiscally inept United States government is the
41. large bag of our paper marbles because the inept leaders in Washington keep
42. I thought at the time I was just hopelessly inept, but I see now that there was more to it
43. He was neither an athlete nor a scholar, and he was socially inept
44. high quality doctors were inept enough to be in the
45. Parents will be exposed to the loneliness, isolation, and socially inept behavior of their children
46. Unbelievably, the inept Alaska Airlines attendant had lost my boarding pass for the Deadhorse flight, which I should have been given in return for the one for the Anchorage flight - which I had had to return at once, when it turned out I wasn't flying to Anchorage
47. The PMM team felt the fault was probably not serious at all but inadequate procedures and inept activities could have made it into a fully fledged disaster
48. But today, those teachings are abysmally out-of-date, and horribly inept at dealing with modern reality
49. “Well,” said June, “you"re an exception because scientists and mathematicians tend to be both uninterested and inept in the literary field
50. Creating a privileged class of consumer-workers who are so badly mis-educated, so ignorant, so inept, so incompetent, so lazy: that third world workers are taking over their jobs at a breakneck speed; and doing the same jobs better, faster, more competently for less money
