It is said that the then President of the United States declared the incompetency of the courts, judges, and officers, to execute this contract without an act of the Legislature.
This, however, is by no means declaring the incompetency of a department to perform an act stipulated by treaty, until the legislative authority shall direct its performance.
From these considerations, he inferred their incompetency to legislate for this District, whatever their disposition might be.
Rachitical constipation, depending on incompetency of the intestinal muscle, must not be treated with purgative medicines.
It is too late, by thirty centuries, to put in the plea of herincompetency in political affairs.
And whoever says you have forfeited any essential grace or virtue of womanhood by your act, betrays, by the accusation, an utter incompetency to judge upon questions of human responsibility and obligation.
Following up the insulting and injurious assumption of herincompetency and untrustworthiness, implied in the denial of her right of suffrage, the guardianship of her children is taken from her.
In common with his fellow Provincials, he suffered from theincompetency of the British commanders sent over from England.
In the United States this has not been done; our republic recognizes its own incompetency in spirituals, protects all religions not contra bonos mores, and establishes none; and here the church has never opposed republicanism or democracy.
The reason is based on inability andincompetency of the slave, the minor and the idiot.
The condition of an individual may be such, that he is fit for nothing but a slave, The evil consists in the incompetence of the individual, and not in that condition or station in life, to which his incompetency subjects him.
The fact that a man capitulates to academic training attests to an incompetency so great that, under no circumstances, however favorable, could it have arisen to a point capable of producing great art.
They all feel their incompetency to create new forms, the necessity to follow, the timidity which only permits them to modify the surfaces of other greater men.
Another cause of Boer failure as explained to me by the State Secretary's son was the inexperience and incompetency of their generals, who had won what little renown was theirs in Zulu or Kaffir wars.
But Joubert's softness, Schoeman's incompetency and Cronje's surrender spoiled the project just when success seemed in sight.
Fortunately, these evidences of a new interest of labor in industry as a social institution, give us some reason to hope that we shall not be confined to a choice between business incompetency and state socialism.
After summing up the war situation she said: 'The English armies now on the battle-fields in the Transvaal have at their heads as officers sons of this idle aristocracy, who through their incompetency are not fit to be leaders.
Some of the nation's strongholds were already in the hands of the traitors, and the incompetency and weakness of its predecessor were everywhere apparent.
Official incompetency and corruption aided rather than stemmed the rushing torrent that was bearing this section of the Republic to anarchy and financial ruin.
The one yielded no return, and the sum put in the other was lost through the incompetency of his honest but inexperienced friend.
During the first two years of the war the English forces sustained several disasters through the incompetency of the English commanders on land and sea.
Perhaps its chief use will be in very distinctly proving with what wonderful carelessness or incompetency the English language is generally written.
Incompetency is the only ground upon which a civil superintendent and a list of civil assistants can be placed over them.
The regular troops were inadequate to the protection of the inhabitants; and the incompetency of the defensive system to their security became every day more apparent.
The incompetency of the military force to the defence of the country having become obvious, the assembly determined to augment the regiment to fifteen hundred men.
Stickit minister, a candidate for the clerical office who fails, disqualified by incompetencyor immorality.
I do not know that it is so with others; but I cannot disguise from myself the sense of weakness, inferiority, and incompetency which I feel.
It cost us about four thousand men, mostly, however, captured, and all due to inefficiency on the part of the corps commander and the incompetency of the division commander who was sent to lead the assault.
The Whigs from their incompetency were obliged when the Seven Years' War broke out to leave its management in the hands of William Pitt.
Lord Bute, the king's first choice, resigned from a sense of his own incompetency in 1763.
The incompetency of her assailants saved her from destruction.
