This degrading agreement so disgusted the West-Frankish nobility that they were glad to join a conspiracy set on foot by Charles' nephew, the brave Arnulf of Carinthia, who had resolved to supplant his inefficient uncle.
The Directory, one of the most corrupt and inefficient governmental bodies that the world has ever seen, had completely disgraced itself.
After his death his system fell into disuse and it became increasingly difficult to get rid of inefficient or rebellious officers.
All any man has to do to see how inefficient this tends to make a President, is to stop and think.
We are going to discipline men like these by driving them into the back streets of business, as anæmic, second-rate and inefficient men in bringing things to pass.
And his only consolation was that he preferred the present Ministry, inefficient as it was, to the Tories.
Partly this is because man, considered as a mere toiler, is so relatively inefficient a worker.
The hint was acted on, and after repeated trials and disappointments, some clumsy and inefficient telescopes were formed.
Even the more staid among them perceived as by a revelation that it did not in fact matter, once in a way, if they were tired and inefficient on the morrow, and that too much regularity of habit was bad for the soul.
And above all it was damply cold; the window stood a little open, and only the tiniest fire burnt in the inefficient grate.
What about the risk of finding himself tied for life to an inefficient housekeeper?
But if this be true, the important powers conferred on the general government in relation to the postoffice, might be rendered in a great measure inefficient and impracticable.
The postmaster general may make reductions for refusal to transport, when required, upon the fastest trains,[68] and may impose fines for inefficient service and delays.
The other colonies still merely exploit their forest resources under loosely managed license systems, without even an inefficient attempt at intelligent treatment.
Since the beginning of the century, the population has increased to near 18 million, but financial bankruptcy keeps the government inefficient and unable to accomplish reforms even if the people would let it have its way.
He charged that the department was disorganized, honeycombed with graft, tolerating and protecting vice conditions, inefficient and negligent.
It shows that the administration is so inefficient and corrupt that law and order must be enforced by citizens instead of by the officials whose duty it is to keep the lid down in Los Angeles.
In that event I will endeavor to put before the people of this city satisfactory evidence of my charge that the police department is disorganized, inefficient and honeycombed with graft.
Like the wounded, the town has been rendered inefficient by war.
It did create, together with the inefficient policy, and the lack of a distribution system, a state of starvation, which provoked dissatisfaction.
This is an age of efficiency, gentlemen, and when something is proven inefficient it is discarded.
Fort Washington was a very small and inefficient work, incorrectly planned by an incompetent French engineer; only a small part of the fort was then built, and it has not yet been completed.
In 1797 Nelson attacked the little inefficient batteries of Santa Crux, in Teneriffe, with eight vessels carrying four hundred guns.
He was a singular man; so humble and meek, so unutterably inefficient and awkward in the ordinary intercourse of life, but so bold and enterprising, almost eloquent, on the one subject which was the work of his mind!
Laws so simple would be inefficient in a mixed and turbulent community.
He is inefficient because he is not well fitted for the work and could not do his best even if he were perfectly satisfied and happy.
The man who goes out to do battle for commercial or professional success from an ill-managed and inefficient kitchen and dining-room is as badly off as the army with an inadequate commissary department.
And he is inefficient because he is in a bad psychical state.
It's hard, I'll admit, but the inefficient and the shiftless are bound to suffer, no matter what form of government you adopt.
What you don't realize, perhaps, is that low standards help to increase the inefficient of whom you complain.
And the inefficient mills will all be forced to shut down.
He was indeed an exceptionally inefficient captain.
I have a confused memory of vigils and mornings and afternoons spent by that bedside, and how the religieuse hovered about me, and how meek and good and inefficient she was, and how horribly black were her nails.
With an authoritarian ex-Communist regime in power and a tribally based social structure, Turkmenistan has taken a cautious approach to economic reform, hoping to use gas and cotton sales to sustain its inefficient economy.
Import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs.
In contrast, Poland's large agricultural sector remains handicapped by structural problems, surplus labor, inefficient small farms, and lack of investment.
A major feature of the economy is the dichotomy between relatively efficient export enclaves and inefficient domestic sectors.
For in the dim red dawn of man the fool-killing apparatus of nature was terribly effective, and society could do little to mitigate its horrors and to protect its inefficient members.
If they fall a step short of his iron boundary they are mere Philistines and bourgeois, if they go a step beyond they are inefficient and contemptible sentimental revolutionists.
Long-term barriers to development include electricity shortages, inefficient government dominance of key sectors, endemic corruption, and high population growth.
With an authoritarian ex-communist regime in power and a tribally based social structure, Turkmenistan has taken a cautious approach to economic reform, hoping to use gas and cotton sales to sustain its inefficient economy.
In this statist society, import restrictions and inefficient resource allocations have led to periodic shortages of basic goods and foodstuffs.
As long as the national principle endures, political power cannot be exercised irresponsibly without becoming inefficient and sterile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inefficient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
