Slovaks are justifiably appalled and enraged by the corruption and fecklessness of their political elite.

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Those who want to integrate or succeed are held back by stereotypes about dirt, crime, fecklessness and illiteracy.

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Ministers have tried to find a third way between blaming people for their fecklessness and heavy-handed social engineering.

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But due to the Obama administration's diplomatic fecklessness and ideological blinders, administration officials were incapable of making these points.

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Creditor countries have criticised, with reason, the fecklessness of those they have rescued.

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The lads' mags perfected a celebration of male fecklessness, with an irony that was probably appreciated more by its writers than readers.

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As soon as the election was over, some of these conservatives were at the front of the line, attacking Romney for his supposed fecklessness.

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Gorbachev clearly perceives U.S. fecklessness over Lithuania as a green light for whatever oppressive steps he deems necessary to bring that country to heel.

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Of course, all these critical advantages could be squandered by fecklessness.

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But human fecklessness is also to blame, including wastage, urban, industrial and agricultural pollution, absence of purifying systems and frequently poor democratic and financial management of the sector.

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