In McCarthy's words, " Before meeting Jim Forrestal I thought we were losing to international Communism because of incompetence and stupidity on the part of our planners.

Though she respects Groo's prowess as a warrior, Chakaal is all too aware of his incompetence in other areas, as well as his general stupidity and lack of social graces, and finds Groo at best tolerable when she is in need of his sword, and contemptible otherwise.

He believes that these famines were caused by the " stupidity or incompetence of the regime ," and that the deaths resulting from the famines, as well as other deaths that " resulted directly or indirectly from government policy ," should not be counted as if they were equivalent to intentional murders and executions.

In both cases, he attributed the failures to " stupidity and incompetence " on behalf of the force.

Much of the humour derived from Oxley's singular incompetence and stupidity.

During the first season, jokes surrounding Zoidberg usually focused on his incompetence as a doctor, his poor understanding of human anatomy, and the fact that all of his co-workers hate him.

His incompetence is aggravated by the fact that he believes himself to be an expert on human anatomy, and will blithely attempt to treat human patients as he would his own species.

Consequently, he renews his attacks on Hurley's incompetence with renewed vigour, especially after encountering another maternal and foetal death at the hands of Hurley ; and also by the fact Lake has begun to show symptoms of almost certainly fatal disease, vCJD due to Hurley cutting Lake during a surgical operation, so feels he has little to lose.

The insurgents were aided by the incompetence of Russian ambassador and commander, Iosif Igelström, and the fact that the chosen day was the Thursday of Holy Week when many soldiers of the Russian garrison went to the churches for the Eucharist not carrying their arms.

In fact, the young Princess Victoria became seriously ill. Albert, who was devoted to his first-born, confronted Victoria on the incompetence of the staff selected by the Baroness.

In fact, Grímr Svertingsson's term was cut short, not because of incompetence or illness, but because his voice was too weak for the job.

Sikorski is in fact a Slavic ( mainly Polish ) name and was probably chosen to show incompetence of censors.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

The series is somewhat darker in tone than the other Blackadders ; it details the depredations of trench warfare as well as the infamous common perception of incompetence and life-wasting strategies of the top brass.

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

This allegedly misspoken line is cited as evidence of either Lugosi's failing health / mental faculties, or as further evidence of Wood's incompetence as a director.

The principle is commonly phrased, " employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.

Peter's Corollary states that " n time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties " and adds that " work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

That level is the employee's " level of incompetence " where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching their career's ceiling in an organization.

The employee's incompetence is not necessarily a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult.

Thus, " work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Peter states that a class, or caste ( social stratification ) system is more efficient at avoiding incompetence.

If incompetence is detected, they can be easily laid off ( e. g. by simply not renewing their contract ).

Other special pleas used in criminal cases include the plea of mental incompetence, challenging the jurisdiction of the court over the defendant's person, the plea in bar, attacking the jurisdiction of the court over the crime charged, and the plea in abatement, which is used to address procedural errors in bringing the charges against the defendant, not apparent on the " face " of the indictment or other charging instrument.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

Yet another similar epigram (" Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence ") has been widely attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

As such, he is even promoted to Chief Inspector over the course of the series, and is regarded by many other characters who presumably have not met him as France ’ s greatest detective ; those characters he actually encounters, nevertheless, are quick to realise his incompetence and limitations.

In an article for The Independent, he claimed that, while the Bush administration was incapable of successfully carrying out such attacks due to its organisational incompetence, he is " increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9 / 11 " and added that he does not condone the " crazed ' research ' of David Icke, but is " talking about scientific issues ".

* Having lost the confidence of his peers, Hannibal Gisco is subsequently executed for incompetence shortly afterwards, together with other defeated Punic generals.

Some noted appearances of the animal in literature include the short story Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler is a tale of bureaucratic incompetence ; two guinea pigs held at a train station breed unchecked while humans argue as to whether they are " pigs " for the purpose of determining freight charges.

He is known for his long, rambling, often incoherent stories and incompetence.

Another display of his incompetence takes place in " The Boy Who Knew Too Much " when, while representing a French waiter who is accusing Mayor Quimby's nephew Freddy of battery, he is surprised when the opposing counsel mentions that Hutz's client is an immigrant ( despite the client's French accent ).

Doggerel is usually the sincere product of poetic incompetence, and only unintentionally humorous, as with the work of Julia A. Moore, the " sweet singer of Michigan ":

Goulart's fiction is characterized by several themes, notably humor, technology gone wrong ( usually through incompetence rather than malice ) and heroes with superhuman powers.

National Representatives also have authority to place a CUPE local under administration, pursuant to the CUPE Constitution, which effectively means that the Representative runs the local for a brief period of time in an extraordinary circumstance and suspends the locally-elected officers, usually only in very serious cases of fraud or gross incompetence or misconduct.

He enjoys doing favors for Taz but his incompetence usually results in mayhem.

His businesses usually flop, either due to bankruptcy, his own incompetence, or his losing interest in his own scheme.

To dismiss several staff for incompetence because the employer does not know which one is the weakest will usually look arbitrary and could easily show lack of an adequate investigation.

The plan succeeds through the most intricate machinations ( Egon's specialty is the cracking of safes with merely a stethoscope and fine feeling ) but Egon always loses his object of desire due to some freak accident at the end of the movie, usually caused by the incompetence of his accomplices.

When Enos's incompetence was shown, Rosco would usually respond by calling him " Dipstick.