Slovaks are justifiably appalled and enraged by the corruption and fecklessness of their political elite.
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The Iranians are making ever less effort to conceal the benefits they derive from such fecklessness.
Those who want to integrate or succeed are held back by stereotypes about dirt, crime, fecklessness and illiteracy.
Ministers have tried to find a third way between blaming people for their fecklessness and heavy-handed social engineering.
But due to the Obama administration's diplomatic fecklessness and ideological blinders, administration officials were incapable of making these points.
Creditor countries have criticised, with reason, the fecklessness of those they have rescued.
No, Mr. Obama, the fecklessness of politicians does not obligate me to send more of my money to the government.
The lads' mags perfected a celebration of male fecklessness, with an irony that was probably appreciated more by its writers than readers.
As soon as the election was over, some of these conservatives were at the front of the line, attacking Romney for his supposed fecklessness.
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.
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.
Mr. Meese's remarks were particularly illuminating in contrasting the principled Reagan Administration approach during those times and the fecklessness that has come to characterize U.S. foreign and defense policy under the present administration.
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Lord Carey praised the efforts of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith - whom he called a "committed Christian" - to overhaul a benefits system which, at its worst, "rewards fecklessness and irresponsibility".
The financial jihadists built their strategy upon both sovereign wealth and the cravenness and fecklessness of the Western facilitators who would sell their own well-being and physical security for a place among the Fortune 500.
As President Obama is fond of saying, let me be clear: Vladimir Putin's Russia - yes, he still runs the place - is cynically exploiting the U.S. administration's fecklessness in blindly pursuing improved relations.
Tragically, these all too familiar examples of democracies cognitive dissonance and fecklessness in the face of real and growing threats are as in Churchills time being encouraged and exacerbated by a failure of the intelligence community.
In short, there is plenty wrong with the picture being painted by a president suddenly seized with the trappings of peace in Bosnia after three years of indifference and fecklessness in response to the conflict there.
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Scott Brown of Massachusetts was wildly acclaimed by the CPAC masses, yet he would be the first to acknowledge that some 64% of his voters supported him because of his rejection of Obama's fecklessness on terrorism.
All these (existing or incipient) crises are being met by an America response whose fecklessness and passivity seems as much a reflection of a determination not to endanger defense budget cuts as it is a failure to appreciate their full implications.
But what if the enemy views these steps instead as victories for their cause, further evidence of the fecklessness of liberal democracies and proof positive of the inevitability of the triumph of jihad and the global theocracy administering Shariah for which it is waged?
The Clinton Administration's monomaniacal determination to consummate a deal right away (after three years of virtual indifference, fecklessness and inaction on the Bosnian crisis) precipitated round-the-clock negotiating sessions, arm-twisting and knee-breaking that has produced a peace accord, but almost certainly will produce no peace.
In a brilliant column in today's Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer excoriated the Clinton Administration for its general inattention to the immense strategic problem posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons program -- and for the fecklessness of such attention as it has paid the issue.
Between Turkey's open support for Hamas and vilification of Israel, Egypt's abject refusal to take any concrete action to end weapons smuggling to Gaza, and Fatah's fecklessness and hostility, Israelis have been given ample proof this month that the moderate camp is a fiction.
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