Britain's, and perhaps the world's, greatest medical editor, Thomas Wakley, founded the Lancet with the primary aim of reform, and in wildly intemperate language he attacked nepotism, incompetence, quackery and corruption, all of which were rife in early 19th-century British medicine (and perhaps still are).
Patients were excluded if they were unable to complete the PRWE due to mental incompetence or language barriers that could not be addressed using hospital or family translators (Available Cohort = 137 ; Excluded because baseline form not present = 8).
Part of the reason came from the Bengali's natural incompetence in this language: an incompetence that largely arises from the fact that Bengali (like English) assigns no gender to inanimate objects or generic categories, while Hindi (like French) doesn't hesitate to do so.
For an example of how Mr. Ashcroft shuts down public examination, consider the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former F.B.I. translator who says that the agency's language division is riddled with incompetence and corruption, and that the bureau missed critical terrorist warnings.
"The series simultaneously skewers and celebrates the absurdity of the language we use to hide our own incompetence.
These recordings, available on bootleg, were made during a session and display, according to The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, "instrumental incompetence, mutual recrimination and much foul language".
Some flaws in research papers result from honest mistakes, less conservative use of language, failure to evaluate limitations of results, or even incompetence.
She had contacted the City to get the language of the changes, and either by design or incompetence was not given most of the material.
"This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence," he writes in "Politics and the English Language," among my favorites of his essays, "is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially of any kind of political writing".
They say journalists may mistake experts' typically cautious and hedging language about health-related emergencies as evidence of stonewalling or incompetence, and that journalists too eagerly seek sources – sometimes less reputable sources – who will speak with relatively less caution.
The government is trying to cover its incompetence in both foreign and domestic policy with the language of jingoism and patriotism.
