They can be naive, they can be inept, they can have a shocking day at the office, but certainly should not be complacent.
Accordingly, we would not say they are "inept," but we do argue they are significantly weak if not downright vulnerable to problems, breakdowns, usability issues and compromise.
Leaders of the dissident military faction said they wanted to meet Mr. Gaviria to explain to him that they were not proposing a coup but were opposing a president they considered inept, corrupt and dictatorial.
What Mitt Romney's old desks tell us about his ineffable powers of leadership is hard to divine, but through private conversations with Romney's senior strategists over the years, it's clear that they are as genuinely admiring of their candidate's biography as they are inept at selling it to the outside world.
Sure, they're inept as hell, but at least it's an honest ineptness and not a cutesy wutsey version that's there to pleasure dickless wonders and pedophiles.
Like Hot Chip and the Go! Team, Metronomy have a penchant for unexpected tangents and an aptitude for variety; they don't have as much pop nous as the former, but then neither are they as inept as the latter when it comes to production.
American troops who work with the Iraqi security forces generally say they are inept or outright hostile.
Other magazines like Lear's failed, in part because, some critics said, they were inept, portraying "real people" dressed in matronly clothes looking chilly and stiff.
A native Californian, I've spent the past decade living in one state where politicians are staid and reliable (Iowa) and another where they're inept and corrupt (Nevada).
