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Whether it's a plagiarized speech or a phrase ineptly gleaned, Presidential candidates of all persuasions know from the get-go that everything they say can and will be held against them.

Michael Conniff: Con Games: Six Degrees Of Condemnation 2008

Progressives should consider this before unthinkingly blasting a barely Democratic Congress for "ineptly" failing to reverse Bush policies in a few short months.

Glenn W. Smith: The Dangerous Framing of Congress as an Inept Community 2008

Bushfire survivor lashes out at Christine Nixon AN expert in leadership and prominent Marysville citizen has submitted a scathing critique of Christine Nixon's performance as chairwoman of the Bushfire Reconstruction Authority to the royal commission in the hope that post-disaster recovery in Australia will never be handled as "ineptly" as it has been in Victoria.

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

Bushfire survivor lashes out at Christine Nixon AN expert in leadership and prominent Marysville citizen has submitted a scathing critique of Christine Nixon's performance as chairwoman of the Bushfire Reconstruction Authority to the royal commission in the hope that post-disaster recovery in Australia will never be handled as "ineptly" as it has been in Victoria.

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

However, this statement specifically limited its scope only to some of "those who were offended by the images …" - persons who mistook the paper's mocking of an "ineptly" written stimulus bill as a malicious slight.

CounterPunch 2009

You already have characters that are open-minded, adventurous, love being around people, and try (ineptly) to be heroic.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Trollitrade’s Review Forum 2009

Unlike most good decisions, poor decisions and ineptly-executed plans create consequences that the character has to overcome, which lets you raise the stakes for the heroes and make the journey more difficult.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2010 » February 2010

Unlike most good decisions, poor decisions and ineptly-executed plans create consequences that the character has to overcome, which lets you raise the stakes for the heroes and make the journey more difficult.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Bad Decisions Make Badass Stories 2010

It is a shame that the three pictures by which he is represented here are themselves rather ineptly lit, but there is no shortage of Tintoretto elsewhere in Venice, and, as its punning title indicates, this exhibition, as the director Bice Curiger puts it, constitutes a "United Nations of a different kind."

Setting the Art World Alight Andrew McKie 2011

Bush Jr. was the one who ineptly took a hands-off approach to NK.

Hillary Clinton 'elbowed' aside? 2009