Gilbert's themes of class inequality, overbearing nationalism and incompetent authorities remain relevant, however absurdly treated.
The New York Times review of The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players' 2008 season at New York City Center commented, "Gilbert's themes of class inequality, overbearing nationalism and incompetent authorities remain relevant, however absurdly treated.
In 1870, he was duly awarded the Legion of Honor and delightedly spurned it, calling the offer an impertinent "usurping of the public's taste" (the many-headed new god) by artistically incompetent, hidebound authorities.
Disgruntled Tibetans would have sensed an opportunity.Whether deliberate or incompetent, the authorities' failure to stop the rioting at the outset has been a bigger setback for Tibet's long-term stability and China's foreign relations than any official is likely to have calculated on March 14th.
Much pain was inflicted, much injustice done, by incompetent American authorities.
The president insisted that "combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq," but airpower is unlikely to suppress a religiously motivated insurgency against the corrupt, incompetent Iraqi authorities.
Mr. Lieberman has repeatedly attacked the Palestinian Authority as incompetent and insincere about peace and said Israel should consider withholding taxes it collects on the authority's behalf.
The problem is that people view the Palestinian Authority as being incompetent to do anything.
Liberal democrat councillors in Cornwall have accused the Tory-led authority of being "incompetent" for not being fully prepared for the switch over to the new system.
They might be poorly advised, unable to grasp all the facts, biased, stubborn, incompetent or caught between different authority figures demanding that they act in a certain way.
The report pointed out that the Department of Lands and Physical Planning, the agency responsible for evaluating and granting SABL applications and registering subleases, was described by judicial authorities as grossly incompetent and entirely corrupt.
