As a means of combating such fecklessness, however, the crackdown is worse than useless. |
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For a government that prides itself on pragmatism and prudence, this is a policy that astonishes in its fecklessness and recklessness. |
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It is also intended, no doubt, to contrast British efficiency and moral fibre with Spanish and Portuguese fecklessness. |
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However, the Council had once again demonstrated its fecklessness by shirking its responsibilities to implement reform. |
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And in both cases this angry minority has had far more influence than its numbers would suggest, largely because of the fecklessness of the left and the apathy of moderates. |
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They revealed mendacity, callousness and fecklessness at the level of generals and presidents, in the eyes of the government's own analysts. |
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Yemenis have grown weary after four years of peace talks that have only convinced them of the fecklessness of their political class. |
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It's striking that the fecklessness of the United Nations and the treachery of the French draw so many yawns from establishment commentators and politicians. |
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Middle-aged people, already in a state of despair about the fecklessness of the young, will find the activities of the grey and toothless equally distressing. |
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These images reveal, without authorial commentary, the mixture of earnestness and fecklessness, solemnity and comedy that marks the typical contemporary parade. |
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This is a welcome departure from the rhetoric of poverty being created by individual fecklessness, to a worldview in which employers are creating those negative conditions. |
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You could blame the fecklessness of the news media, which has gotten much wrong. |
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How can the fickle, rootless and irresponsible Bruno, a thief and a liar drifting in a world of unreality and fecklessness and totally addicted to all forms of instant gratification, become the father of this child? |
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His work would be undone by the unhelpfulness of the other branch managers and the fecklessness of the London branch manager Canigiani. |
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In The Young Ones, Rik and Adrian turned this fecklessness into comic gold, topping up the antics with acts of outrageous violence which they later carried on into Bottom. |
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Many people in the country are now thinking that the central bank failed to lock steps with the government out of ignorance, fecklessness or malevolence. |
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