Washington was rigorous in breaking cowardly, inefficient, and dishonest men and boasted in front of Boston that he had "made a pretty good sort of slam among such kind of officers".
It is the most inefficient machine known to man.
Human reproduction is staggeringly inefficient.
It isn't just the mass market that is crude and inefficient and therefore ripe for re-evaluation; it is Market Man himself.
He is just one man, one politician, working within a complex and inefficient system that depends on many conflicting personalities, and as such our expectations of him should be grounded.
Like President Reagan, who I had the privilege of spending some time with as a young man, I believe the federal government is inherently inefficient and the more money we give it to spend, the more money it will misspend.
To me, she is the voice of truth about our capital's hardcore power junkies, sinister manipulators, three-faced politicians, uncaring and inefficient bureaucrats, discouraged idealists and hardcore believers in the goodness of man.
Nine years into that war, they are living more or less as Alexander the Great's men did 23 centuries ago — in often dangerous and always inefficient tents and shacks.
Yet they seem inefficient, since the lack of targeting means your listing for men's jewelry might show up to women, or your rock climbing gear ads could show up to senior citizens.
Even a man with his formidable will and intellect is shown beholden to intractable larger forces, including an inefficient economy and an unmanageable bureaucracy that often ignores his edicts.
