Sentence examples for a poor administrator from inspiring English sources

In 1821 he was appointed governor of New South Wales, and, although generally a poor administrator, he systematized the administration of the convict system, hiring out convicts to settlers for clearing land.

Thompson has a specific indictment of Francis: that he was a poor administrator.

Last but not least, bored by the routine of paperwork, he was a poor administrator.

But while witty and gregarious, Cardinal O'Connor was a poor administrator.

He was accused of being a poor administrator and of failing to delegate to colleagues.

Diem was a poor administrator who refused to delegate authority, and he was pathologically suspicious of anyone who was not a member of his family.

What's a poor tax administrator to do?

At one point, he riffs about identifying with George W. Bush (both are lazy, poor administrators, tend to think of their own safety in a crisis, and so forth), finally coming to an oddly self-aggrandizing conclusion: "Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself.

Recognise that, except in emergencies, both central governments and international organisations make poor administrators.

The men who won the war that led to independence are tough fighters but poor administrators.

In others, coalitions of minority residents installed poor administrators who made the schools vehicles for patronage and corruption.