incapacity

Example Sentences

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He cited a report which heard there is ignorance about the disease and incorrect assumptions of mental incapacity.

From BBC

Afghan forces have been forced repeatedly to give up after pleas for supplies and reinforcements went unanswered, either because of incompetence or the simple incapacity of the system to deliver.

From Reuters

Illinois looks for “mental deterioration, physical incapacity, mental illness, developmental disability, gambling, idleness, debauchery, excessive use of intoxicants or drugs.”

From New York Times

Kim Jong-un has no clear successor and his death or long-term incapacity may lead to a power vacuum in the nuclear state, bringing fresh instability to East Asia.

From BBC

He denounces George W. Bush’s adventurism in Iraq as an exercise in “hubris, brutality, ignorance of local culture, and incapacity to think more than few months ahead.”

From Washington Post