Example sentences for: incompetence

How can you use “incompetence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An investigation into charges of fraud, corruption, and cronyism found evidence of incompetence, mismanagement, and loss of political control.

  • For him, these wars exposed the political bankruptcy and strategic incompetence not only of Western governments but, even more starkly, of the international do-gooder establishment--the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the proliferating nongovernmental organizations that provide relief on the ground in times of emergency.

  • News , the defense strategy in the Oklahoma City trial: McVeigh's lawyer will raise questions about crime-lab incompetence, coerced government witnesses, and the mysterious John Doe No.

  • Extensive bone marrow infiltration with cancer cells and anticancer therapy lead to immune incompetence in children with cancer [ 1 2 ] . Since the prognosis and overall survival of children with cancer have dramatically improved during past 30 years [ 3 ] , problems remain related to infections, mainly during leukopenic periods [ 3 4 5 ] . Causal pathogens of febrile neutropenia (FN), most frequently bacterial or fungal, are identified and confirmed by culture in 25-35% of the cases [ 3 6 ] . In other 15-25% of patients with FN, bacterial or fungal pathogens are suspected clinically.

  • Italian newspapers all led on the fatal mudslides in southern Italy, with the predictable comment that political incompetence was partly responsible.


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