Sentences with word «fecklessness»

First, we must check the financial fecklessness of politicians.

ALBANY — Scandal - plagued state Sen. John Sampson may have set a new record for fecklessness — uttering just one word from the Senate floor during the last six - month legislative session...

According to the Tracking Board, Franco will star opposite Ralph Ineson and Stephen Root in the «Near Algodones» installment, playing «a high - plains drifter whose own fecklessness dogs his attempts at bank robbery and cattle driving.»

It may very well be true that, as many neoconservative intellectuals have argued, al - Qaeda and other terrorist groups were emboldened by American military fecklessness throughout the 1990s.

Any other proof that Jonathan, despite his personal fecklessness, was only the logical victim of an irredeemable system of corruption and rot fated to collapse, sooner than later?

Whether he smirks at the (admittedly pathetic) Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, tells Brits they can't understand the «subtlety» of European political arrangements or publicly humiliates the Greek prime minister, he is a victory for small - minded xenophobia and fecklessness who true internationalists should intuitively jettison.

Saturday Night Fever, for example, is a bleak tale of youthful fecklessness, blue - collar dissatisfaction, unwanted pregnancy and date rape, where the American Dream is exposed in its most narcissistic and narrow - minded form.

We'd seen hints of it in earlier films: the heroes» general fecklessness in Shaun, for example, or their tendency to confuse fictional bombast for real life in Hot Fuzz.

(T) ERROR unfolds with the narrative kick of a great TV show — perhaps Homeland, which Shariff recommends to his mark, in a moment of comical fecklessness — but Cabral and Sutcliffe also make startling moral and ethical choices that shape the story they're telling.

Maybe Cindy's past promiscuity is meant to balance Dean's current fecklessness?

But the successor regime of Bush, in an overcorrection, reacted sharply against the perceived fecklessness of federal education policy, was indifferent to what the states had in place, and demanded impossibilities.

The biggest disincentive to stay in this profession is not lack of money, but the relentless assault on one's self - esteem by the corrosive stew of union avarice, management fecklessness, and school committee politics.

This scathing indictment of worldwide fecklessness when confronted by the destruction of Bosnia - Hercegovina and the death or displacement of so many Bosnian Muslims is perhaps the most powerful, passionate, and penetrating dissection of the tragedy by a Westerner.

Instead of playing other sectors of the Canadian economy as chips in some high - stakes game of pipeline poker, Harper should affirm Canadian sovereignty — and confirm U.S. fecklessness — by fast - tracking energy projects of all description.

Diana's dying marriage, then divorce and Fergie's fecklessness fuelled the voracious appetite of the weekly mag readers, week after titillating week, making Australia home to the highest circulating women's magazines in the world.

Some activists, particularly in civil rights, still upbraided him for fecklessness.

Entitled «Near Algodones,» the plot concerns a high - plains drifter whose «fecklessness dogs his attempts at bank robbery and cattle driving.»

While Buffett urges fellow billionaires to join him and Bill Gates in giving at least half their wealth away in their famous «Giving Pledge,» Munger has declined to sign on to the Giving Pledge and even muses about the fecklessness of many charitable organizations, choosing a few specific institutions for his giving (Munger said a few years ago that Costco, where he serves on the board, did more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation.)

Jheon and her husband made numerous bad decisions during the renovation, but were still able to continue borrowing money (including from a wealthy relative) and ultimately rewarded for their fecklessness with a palatial detached house in an up - and - coming neighbourhood.

Who gets hurt, because of Congressional fecklessness?

Now Oxycodone has joined shuttered factories and Donald Trump as a symbol of white working - class desperation and fecklessness.

They should do so even if they think that the President's policy will prove ineffective, do no good, waste money, or entail unforeseen risks; they should do so even if they think he has gotten the nation into this situation by blunders, fecklessness, arrogance, or naiveté; and they should so even if, and especially, if they have no confidence in his judgment.

its fecklessness will make it an even softer target for the kind of lethal fanaticism that recently turned Paris into a war zone.

The fecklessness of this, especially coming from the overweight and unattractive Connolly, Malcolm took to be characteristic of a civilization in complete collapse, which he supposed his to be, however eagerly he kept on the lookout for signs to the contrary.

As an advisor (briefly) to former Russian president Yeltsin's finance ministry in 1992 - 1993, I observed a degree of fecklessness and corruption that boggles the imagination under the supposed democratic regime that preceded Putin.

Resistance is real, as is the fecklessness of many who are entrusted with political power and who are threatened by any authority other than their own.

From such cruelty, infantile behavior, fecklessness, and downright stupidity surely God is tempted to turn away!

And yet, thanks to the small - mindedness of two state senators from Long Island and the fecklessness of the Senate majority leader, we remain so far away.

Only one stands out, the grocery store clerk of the title (Menashe Lustig, in a nuanced portrayal of good intentions undermined by fecklessness and misfortune); hatless, coatless, portly, and disheveled, he's a slob.

His fecklessness and boozing (a spiked 7 - 11 cup is never far from his hand), was a factor in Cassidy leaving him, and while Aimee wants Sutter to follow her to college in Philadelphia, he begins to realize that he may not be the best influence on her.

More deadening and depressing is The Shipment, another Modine vehicle finding its belated way to home video that fails spectacularly, but for its fecklessness and venality.

Weingarten is right to call out state policymakers for their fecklessness about properly funding teacher pension plans, part of the cause of the pension mess today.

These gaps and repetitions occur unwittingly, not through the fecklessness of guideline makers nor the incompetence of teachers, but thanks to the formalistic idea that no particular piece of knowledge will boost reading comprehension more than any other.

Spiced by gossip about the artist's fecklessness, which, on an earlier visit to the city, had caused her to be ousted from a series of hotels, starting at the Waldorf and ending in a youth hostel, the show is legendary; Laura Hoptman, a curator of the moma show, told me that art - world types who didn't see it (including me) are tempted to pretend, or may even believe, that they did.

Their fecklessness and lack of credibility will manifest as the continued decline of British industry, the continued rise of unemployment, and the deepening of the mutual cynicism between the public and themselves.

In the face of the Democrats» absolute refusal to admit to their fecklessness, fatuity and recklessness in allowing known Soviet spies to penetrate the deepest levels of government, McCarthy demanded an accounting.