Not exactly a shining star, she can nonetheless portray herself as adept at competent management of an often impenetrable and incompetent government bureaucracy.

He and his department are a depressing example of bloated, overspending and incompetent government.

Army commanders chafed at what they took to be inadequate and incompetent government support of military efforts to end the rebellion.

He retired to the countryside, where he spread rumours that the country was going to be betrayed by the incompetent government.

A succession of corrupt and incompetent governments has inured them to the rhetoric of political slogans and programmes.

What would years of economic stagnation and incompetent leadership have done to their mood?

In the past few months, incompetent leadership has brought the eurozone economy, and with it the world economy, to the edge of a precipice strongly reminiscent of 1931.

Could that bring four more years of incompetent leadership?

The claims have been described as 'completely outrageous' by nurses who say they are trying to oust an incompetent leadership that mishandled pay negotiations.

Planes, trains and automobiles have all been hit by incompetent management on mega salaries failing to clear runways, tracks and roads.

Their attempts to provide a reasonable service are thwarted by incompetent management, who are more concerned with turning a profit.

There was a security breach that smacked of incompetent management.

Accusations of incompetent management continued to be made by the shareholders.

Various inquests discovered the extent to which incompetent management and neglect was to blame for workplace accidents and legislation.

But this time economic collapse has nothing to do with trade unionists or incompetent managers of small businesses, or the failure to invest in new technology.

Bears do not topple companies; the seeds of their destruction are already sown by their incompetent managers.

Often their negativity has developed over time because these people are frequently the products of poorly managed companies, or lazy or incompetent managers.

This includes the right to dismiss incompetent staff.

A blacklist banning incompetent staff could also be introduced for roles such as healthcare assistants and physician associates.

Professional leaders said that the move could let incompetent staff in 'through the back door'.

Lawyers are also inevitably predisposed to litigiousness, and the agency may calculate that indulgence of incompetent staff minimises the possibility of straining costs taking a further battering.

And in that case you are either incredibly naive or totally incompetent.

He'd happily do a show every night of the year, but he lacks a promoter - and most, he spits, 'are either totally incompetent or complete crooks'.

The effects of illusory superiority have also been found to be strongest when people rate themselves on abilities at which they are totally incompetent.