Sentence examples for outright incompetence from inspiring English sources

His trial strategies included a demonstration of the sloppy practices and outright incompetence of the Los Angeles Police Department.

It will always be subject to the influence of selfishly motivated interests, as well as well-meaning but mistaken theories and even outright incompetence.

Mr. Gillette's book shows how administration after administration in the city fumbled chances to halt the exodus -- some by graft, others merely by either lack of foresight or by outright incompetence.

Lapses and slips, interacting with systems that fail to stop them from causing harm, are more frequently the culprits than outright incompetence.

The more common challenge is not outright fraud but benign incompetence.

The post-Vietnam United States Army is depicted as a hotbed of loutishness, incompetence and outright criminality.

But the party's incompetence and outright corruption are the main causes of South Africa's sad decline.Since Mr Mandela retired in 1999, the country has been woefully led.

Civilian review boards whether from lack of money, lack of political will, incompetence or outright bias in favour of the police fail to investigate or pursue many complaints.

Vadim Klyuvgant, Khodorkovksy's lead lawyer, dismissed the Russian foreign ministry's reaction to criticism as a "mix of glaring incompetence and outright lies".

Making snooping a sideline is likely to lead to wild inconsistency, occasional incompetence or outright capriciousness in the way monitoring is applied and policies are enforced.

That was our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction — a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad.