And his lack of preparation for the job left the insecure W. vulnerable to manipulation by two of Washington's greatest bureaucratic infighters, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980's, Cuba has been left financially insecure and without a social model to follow.
Frank, a former editor at both The New Yorker and The Washington Post, examines how Ike's cool nature and detached management style left Richard Nixon insecure and embittered through the remainder of his political career.
Children who strive to emulate the manufactured "perfection" of these role models are left feeling insecure and inadequate.
Durham's location in the north left it insecure, as Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots, raided and invaded the north of England on a number of occasions.
Bethany Mota's turning point came in 2009, as that was the year she started her YouTube videos – not just to create content, but to regain her voice after being bullied by friends, who left her insecure and convinced she'd "never truly love myself".
By 1949, both had withdrawn their occupation forces, leaving two insecure, itchy regimes -- Kim Il Sung's at Pyongyang in the north and Syngman Rhee's at Seoul in the south -- eyeing each other belligerently across the arbitrary boundary that separated them.
"Leaving millions insecure, and millions more below the poverty line, is not good policy and it's certainly not something Democrats should be tinkering with on the mistaken assumption that it's fiscally responsible.
The lapse, considered a breach of industry practice, has left some feeling insecure and underappreciated.
What's more, the death of his mother a few months after childbirth left him emotionally insecure.
