Sentences with phrase «inept at»

Unfortunately, we are not taught parenting strategies in high school and most of us do not take Family Studies courses in college, so it is no surprise that as children get older, parents feel more and more inept at managing behaviors and shaping healthy outcomes.

So I guess even someone as inept at fundraising as Raul Grijalva is «tainted» by money from people with a specific climate agenda

You seem particularly inept at grasping nuances of things that really make a difference in fully understanding the dynamics.

Given how often such Cook the Books or Lewpapers take a bashing from the skeptic blogosphere, the ordinary person can only conclude that the originators are either particularly inept as researchers or equally inept at cheating their way undetected to the desired result.

As the current election debate reminds us, the United States has proven inept at developing a serious energy strategy.

This mantra refers to a complex non-linear dynamic system with annual variation in forcing greater than 80Wm - 2 (20Wm - 2 for the guys that can only think in terms of averages) repeated by «scientists» so inept at thermodynamics and statistics that they confuse confidence intervals based on temperature anomalies with actually uncertainty of energy flow based on T ^ 4 relationship of the real T not the imaginary T anomaly.

Although I'm speculating, I think it's clear that Gleick was inept at IT and that he left electronic fingerprints all over the email chain which pointed directly to himself.

The environmental movement has proven themselves inept at creating a likeable voice.

However, I'm so inept at pulling them off in recordings you'll just have to take my word for it.

These Datapods are too few in my opinion, but that is perhaps only because I am too inept at this kind of games:) Multiple difficulty levels would have been nice for joystick - shy gamers like me, but the game is not overly frustrating or unfairly difficult.

The industry is leaving a lot of experience at the door by not recognizing experienced engineers that go through the effort of learning game design, and quite honestly, those people are probably going to be much better right from the start, as opposed to a fresh out of college kid who has to be told how to program for other people's work, and from my experience, most college level game engineering degrees turn out engineers which are woefully inept at what actually is required for high end game development.

If like me you were always completely inept at controlling the craft in WipEout, you'll once again spend most of your time grinding against the nearest wall if you don't modulate your speed.

In one year my practice treated 773 dogs — 79 of them, that's 10 percent, had problems of fearfulness towards people or the environment due to a lack of early socialization or habituation and a further 4.5 percent were inept at relating to other dogs, again due to a lack of early socialization.

It's clear that not only do many cats see their owners as family, they also see them as a bit inept at being cats.

It seems almost common sense to many — but this study proves that dogs are hard - wired to pay attention to people, while there's no ethological or genetic advantage for wolves to do that, so even socialized wolves are pretty inept at it.

Issue 2: Amazon is inept at dealing with scammers who exploit the Kindle Direct Publishing platform and instead target and punish legitimate authors.

The two biggest and most well known booksellers in the UK are so inept at selling ebooks that they must surely be helping to hasten the demise of ePub and the supremacy of Amazon and the Kindle ecosystem.

I only point this out because a professional author — such as yourself — would never publish anything with so many mistakes in it, of course, knowing it would appear to be absolute bollix, so you must have intended to appear utterly inept at the craft you propose to be so knowledgeable about, right?

The optional safety kit is well worth avoiding, though - the lane departure and blind spot systems suffer from lots of false positives and the automatic high beam is almost comically inept at working out when to dip the lights.

I bought the car from a dealership far away (200 km) by using a car buying service... the dealership already was inept at fitting the tyres on the first place.

The Stiller character is completely inept at everything he tries, yet he has an intolerable arrogance about himself.

To catch up, new owner (Nathan Fillion) brings a beaten Lightning to a new high - tech training facility, where he proves inept at learning new techniques.

For all of its charm, I just didn't think it that funny to see a man doing baby chores like burping or changing a diaper, while being completely inept at it.

Casting Directors: Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, and Rich Delia Director: Denis Villeneuve Writer: Aaron Guzikowski Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Erin Gerasimovich, Kyla Drew Simmons The Pitch: Two girls go missing in a suburban neighborhood, and a father (Hugh Jackman) takes the investigation into his own hands when he deems the detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) inept at handling the case.

Although computer algorithms can do very rough alignments of sequences across species, they have proven inept at getting the answer just right.

Your personal computer might be inept at handling photographs, so you install a piece of software, and suddenly the machine has a new talent.

The country's «snail mail» has «historically been inept at providing timely information about anything», says Brian Baker, head of public services at Howard University in Washington DC, in a message typical of those posted on the Internet recently.

Luria, for example, writes that Shereshevskii «was quite inept at logical organization.»

There are many opportunities for you to become involved — even if you find that you are inept at doing laboratory work.

It's tempting, perhaps, to rattle the state Capitol to its very core, and replace the politicians so inept at governing with outsiders like Mr. Paladino.

New York state under the leadership of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is completely inept at investing in clean energy technology and long - term innovative energy research and development programs.»

An outstanding compendium of arsegravy as this astonishing failure discovers yet another job he is hopelessly inept at.

So far, the USDA (and the Feds as a general rule) has shown itself totally inept at managing an effective school nutrition program (in all fairness, that really isn't in the USDA's charter.)

I agree we are feeling the backlash of the loss of «King Carlos» — to inept at defending at the back man for man — time to switch to zonal marking???

Can't help it if Clichy is a bit inept at defending against the big teams, we have a defender who is sometimes positionally unaware but has loads of pace.

Fortunately for the Giallorossi, Lazio was equally inept at orchestrating anything in the final third, as the two sides combined for only three shots on target at most.

Someone who's equally inept at stand up.

Wenger is clueless and inept at his job He considers Welbeck to be on the same level as Lacazette and Giroud.

The ironic thing is AV seemed completely inept at identifying the «right personnel» even when they were right there in front of his face.

I don't think that any of our guys were inept at rebounding this year due to any kind of athletic challenge, but it really seemed like few to none of the starters had that drive to box out and get a rebound.

The owners have had their chance at the helm, and while I'd be remiss to not acknowledge their role in saving the franchise, acquiring a new crowned jewel in downtown Milwaukee, and injecting life into a previously dead fanbase, they've proven to be completely inept at managing the actual franchise, fostering chemistry, making hires, and assembling a roster that can compete in today's NBA.

On Sunday, a week after talking brightly about the Saints» future, he was all gloom and doom: «We're inept at every position.

I think if Lemar ends up at Liverpool then it confirms, if there were any doubt, our club is either an incredibly unattractive option for any player worth his salts to consider, that we are inept at negotiating — or actually both.

Everyone apart from you can see that Wenger is inept at team selection, tactics and transfers.

Every Spurs fan will know that their team have proven to be frustratingly inept at picking up any silverware.

IMO he has shown himself to be pretty inept at integrating star names.

Marty, who usually remains cool, is especially critical of the social gospelers, whom he describes as «vague on program, weak on detail, generally out of touch with laborers, [and] inept at politics.»

The other case involved a coach whom I thanked because years before he had taken time to encourage me, a kid utterly inept at sports.

The snow that came earlier this month» and came, and came» never left because we Baltimorons (as we like to call ourselves» but don't you try) are inept at clearing it away....

Finance ministers and central bankers were inept at saving the global economy during normal working hours.