"But the good news is that Saddam Hussein is an uninspired, if not incompetent, military leader who fought the Iran and Gulf wars as if they were the first world war.
The law is the law, in other words, and tough luck if your incompetent lawyer leaves you hanging.
"If an incompetent president were to be elected, we could have the same fate as Argentina," Mr. Cardoso said last month.
Nevertheless, the market panic quickened: on June 12th, Brazil's risk premium reached 12.96%, its highest level since 1999.Mr Serra and Mr Cardoso have themselves been telling voters that Brazil could face Argentina's fate "if an incompetent president were elected".
"We don't know if the incompetent kids are all rapists and murderers, but I suspect that most of them are low-level or midlevel kids that just need services".
His attitude was a healthy one.… If some incompetent takes your place to make a short film about jazz or a TV program about the theatre, one day you will find they have been commissioned to make "Ubu" or "The Persians" and it will be too late to cry.
Plenty of great ideas, inventions or technologies fail miserably at the hands of skill-less if not incompetent management.
The answer is that he challenged an unpopular, if not incompetent, incumbent Jon Corzine, and was aided not only by the incumbent's shortcomings, but by the national financial meltdown and its accompanying foreclosures and high unemployment.
It speaks directly to our anxious desire to distance ourselves, as loudly as possible, from incompetent people -- as if incompetence were subject to that same you-are-or-you-aren't dichotomy as pregnancy.
Participants were excluded if they were incompetent cognitively or if they had a previous hip fracture or replacement, since their choice could be biased towards or against the treatment option they previously received.
