This shows abject incompetence.
Alas, when it comes to their fishermen, they have shown abject cowardice for years.
The regulator said Emap had shown "abject failure" in being "unable to manage its talent".
Teachers described Gove and Wilshaw as showing "abject failure to improve education or treat teachers, parents and pupils with respect".
Teachers have described Gove as showing "abject failure to improve education or treat teachers, parents and pupils with respect".
"Time-Warner cable shows abject political and journalistic cowardice by dropping Current because of Al Jazeera deal," tweeted Dan Gilmor, a technology writer and founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University.
But Mbeki continues to show an abject lack of leadership, indicating - as his firing of the Deputy Health Minister shows - that he is less than half-hearted in his commitment to the cause; that the great $64,000 question of South African politics - what the hell is going inside Mbeki's head on Aids? - remains unanswered.
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said it showed "the abject failure of the last six wasted years".
Delegates described Gove and Wilshaw as showing an "abject failure to improve education or treat teachers, parents and pupils with respect".
But the United States has also swithered in its commitments, welshed on its debts, stymied the efforts of its allies and, most alarmingly, shown an abject terror of losing any of its soldiers' lives in combat.This terror, born largely of experience in Somalia, helps to explain the most disgraceful episode of the 1990s, indeed of the second half of the 20th century.
