Sentence examples for merely incompetence from inspiring English sources

For one thing, they need a narrative that mainstream political leaders, and political parties, are guilty of not merely incompetence but betrayal.

I do not think I am alone in finding that the parties in power have had a year to show what they are capable of and their result is merely incompetence.

Here there is only incompetence.

Was the "Alice in Wonderland" approach, as Ms. Wilson describes it, an act of vengeance or merely of incompetence?

Mr Hain's late declaration of £103,000 ($200,500) that he raised to fund his failed bid for Labour's deputy leadership, said Mr Brown, was merely "an incompetence" that did not negate Mr Hain's ministerial virtues.

Sometimes it is merely one of incompetence or a nimbler competitor.

If it is handled correctly, it should finally answer the question of whether malfeasance — and not merely unbridled greed, incompetence and weak regulation — was also responsible for the financial meltdown.

As such, the first step is to emphasize that medical errors are rarely merely negligence, sloppiness, incompetence, or poor motivation.

But Dr. Bethe said that those scientific mistakes showed that Heisenberg "had never thought how to make a bomb," rather than suggesting that he had merely been stopped by incompetence.

Whereas in adults MacCAT-scales are merely used to ascertain incompetence in mentally compromised patients out of an overall competent population, in children it might be more important to recognize competent patients in a mainly incompetent population.

Regulations of the marketplace of goods and services that are not calculated to protect the public from incompetence or fraud but merely to impose the economic preferences of the politically powerful are essentially no different and are equally constitutionally improper.