The Board of Trade, which inherited the duties and the incompetence of the Committee, proved more complaisant, and was indeed prepared to tolerate permanent settlers to the number of one thousand.
There was no longer the touch of reverence and gentleness with which she had tended Margaret at first, which had made endearing all her huge incompetence and playfulness.
His former energy and resolution have all departed, sapped by the spectacle of extraordinary incompetence around him.
If through the incompetence or neglect of his leaders he is called upon to sacrifice himself, he sacrifices himself without a murmur.
The cause of the imperial incompetence and failure would appear to have been financial.
After making every deduction for the usual number of mistakes due to incompetenceand badly written manuscripts, it has to be admitted that, in certain respects, the Greek text is superior to the Hebrew.
It is neither formal nor diffuse in style nor legal in spirit; it is as concrete and almost as graphic as anything in J.
The problem of the authorship of the Psalms is one of the thorniest in the Old Testament.
The stampede was strongest in the city of New York where the incompetence of the mixed District Assembly 49 had become patent.
The former consist of pericarditis, endocarditis, and myocarditis; the latter embrace deposition of fibrin on the valves, temporary incompetence of the mitral or tricuspid valves, and the formation of thrombi in the cavities of the heart.
It remains to speak briefly of temporary incompetence of the mitral and tricuspid valves and their dynamic murmurs, and of haemic murmurs.
Dilatation of the right cavities, incompetence of the tricuspid, and stenosis of the mitral orifice are the usual cardiac changes leading to congestion of the liver.
In some rather exceptional cases the liver enlarges considerably in consequence of incompetence of the mitral, without there being any other conspicuous evidence of the lesion.
He had narrowly escaped a great disaster, possibly the surrender of his whole army, only by the incompetence of the Montenegrin commander.
The decisions of the military tribunals can be brought before it only by non-military persons appealing against the incompetence of the military jurisdiction in their case.
If, now, we are at liberty to suppose that his study of the law then ceased, we may accept the view of his professional incompetence held up by Jefferson; but precisely that is what we are not at liberty to suppose.
The law, indeed, is the one profession on earth in which such success as he is proved to have had, is impossible to such incompetence as he is said to have had.
All that need be said here is that it proved the utter incompetence of Napoleon III in military matters, he being completely deceived in the condition of the French army and unwarrantably ignorant of that of the Germans.
The Austrian general, having lost the opportunity to attack, was now put on the defensive, in which his incompetence was equally manifested.
Indeed, the events of the year served only one good purpose: they revealed the incompetence of the older generals and the ability of the younger officers.
The organization of the provisional army did not move so rapidly, partly because of the incompetence of the Secretary of War, and partly because of an unseemly wrangle for precedence among the three major-generals whom Adams had named.
The failure of the attack upon Queenston, October 13, was due largely to the incompetence of the commanding general.
Therefore having discussed in detail the slothful incompetence of Arab ticket collectors and the lazy condition and innate viciousness of Egyptian porters as a class, I mentioned incidentally that I had observed a funeral leaving Rikka.
Rome and his more beloved library, hating and despising the ignorantincompetence of his colleagues, and looking forward with almost equal terror to the conclusive triumph of his own or the opposite party.
Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
If they are unable or unwilling to admit their dependencies to share their own constitution, the constitution itself will fall in pieces from mere incompetence for its duties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incompetence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
