(1) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(2) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(3) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(4) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
(5) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(6) I have to say that arranging your move so that you actually become homeless for a month is pretty much the definition of inept.
(7) The structures of the loureirins 1-4 were elucidated through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, with particular use being made of the selective INEPT nmr technique.
(8) As an inexperienced and diplomatically inept minister in the early 1970s, Thatcher clashed with what was later called "the education establishment".
(9) The government has handled the "£9,000 student fees" affair ineptly, near paralysed by political correctness.
(10) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
(11) spectrum were given for these dolichols by using model compounds and INEPT (insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer) measurement.
(12) The basic principles applied are the VOSY pulse scheme for volume selection and the INEPT sequence for homonuclear polarization transfer from the CH to the CH3 groups.
(13) "The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security … coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel's history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation," declared New York Times columnist Tom Friedman last month.
(14) So could I counter with a 'tactically inept' regarding England?
(15) But their attempts are suspiciously theatrical and inept – with the "demonstrators" at one point advancing in a hopeless Roman-style assault.
(16) Congress granted qualified immunity from liability for peer review participation to physicians, osteopaths and dentists, created a national practitioner data bank to track inept, incompetent or unprofessional physicians, and enacted procedural rules for due process, privilege restrictions, and reporting and disbursement of information.
(17) The INEPT (insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer) experiment [Morris, G. A., & Freeman, R. (1979) J.
(18) If you think Isis arose from the US invasion of Iraq, not the vacuum created by its inept occupation and premature withdrawal, good luck again.
(19) Friedman and Schwartz made a convincing case that it was inept monetary management by the Federal Reserve Bank that was the main culprit.
(20) The present Queen’s legacy may look very different once the future of the monarchy is in the inept hands of her eldest son.
Mismanagement
Definition:
(n.) Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
Example Sentences:
(1) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
(2) But the investigation was not published until almost a year after the whistleblower's approach, as the National Union of Teachers prepared to publish its own documents about the mismanagement at the free school.
(3) In most developing countries, however, treatment services are limited, coverage of the infected female population is inadequate, and women seeking treatment are likely to be mismanaged.
(4) "We believe that this is unavoidable following the recent costs to all the citizens of the UK as a result of banking failures, mismanagement and improper practices," said a spokesperson for the City Reform Group.
(5) Sanchez hasn't worked out because the Jets have mismanaged him, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the actual trade itself reflects good value still today.
(6) To avoid the pitfalls of misdiagnosis and mismanagement, the nature of Crohn's disease should be understood and the gynecologic aspects of the disease recognized.
(7) Epithelioid sarcoma (ES) occasionally may be confused, both clinically and histologically, with isolated necrobiotic granulomas (ING), leading to misdiagnosis and potential mismanagement of these conditions.
(8) He casts Livingstone's tenure as one big financial mismanagement and contrasts this to his own administration, which, he argues, has been rewarded by the coalition government for responsibly cutting waste with funding that will allow major infrastructure investments such as Crossrail and tube upgrades to go ahead.
(9) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(10) The correction is likely to anger the families of those missing, particularly in China, where there have been accusations that Malaysia has mismanaged the search and deliberately withheld information.
(11) But this week, after months of conflicting statements, the government said it would seek financial help from the IMF in a bid to end a deepening currency crisis exacerbated by mismanagement of oil revenues.
(12) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
(13) Urban political corruption and financial mismanagement have only deepened tensions.
(14) Billions and billions raised in the name of people in Bangladesh, in Somalia, in our name, that are mismanaged and used inefficiently.” And anyone expecting her to pipe down soon is in for a disappointment.
(15) Not long ago, Imperial College's medicine department were told that their "productivity" target for publications was to "publish three papers per annum including one in a prestigious journal with an impact factor of at least five.″ The effect of instructions like that is to reduce the quality of science and to demoralise the victims of this sort of mismanagement.
(16) And that world of popular journalism, as I saw it then, and the Herald eventually mutated through the mismanagement of the Mirror Group, its eventual owners, into ...
(17) Domestic economic mismanagement is a big part of the problem, with particular criticism of government cuts in fuel and food subsidies despite public and parliamentary opposition.
(18) The former chairman blamed "mismanagement" for the retailer's dire predicament, and is interested in acquiring some of its stores to add to his DW Sports Fitness chain.
(19) He claimed Osborne’s own economic mismanagement, particularly a swingeing supplementary duty imposed in 2011, was partly to blame for the sector’s slump.
(20) Photograph: Thomas Karlsson Writer Will Coldwell put on his best hipster brogues, turned up his jeans, and sought out a different side of Europe’s major cities in covering these innovative walking tours that revel in art, history, food, drink – and even financial mismanagement.