| 单词 | unfitness |
| 例句 | When I presented myself to the rector, requesting an explanation for my non-acceptance at the Academy’s school of painting, that gentleman assured me that the drawings I had submitted incontrovertibly showed my unfitness for painting. Does “Mein Kampf” Remain a Dangerous Book? 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The world’s best chess player is, at the very least, unique in his or her superiority, and that fact alone redeems the champion’s possible unfitness for other activities. Bobby Fischer, “Pawn Sacrifice,” and Movies About Geniuses 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z What are we waiting for, he argued, given Trump’s clear unfitness to lead? Perspective | Get used to it: The ‘I-word’ — impeachment — is about to dominate Trump coverage 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It’s invariably based on the speaker’s own experience of three or four female colleagues, from whose individual failings they extrapolate the unfitness of the 3.5 billion or so other women on the planet. 10 myths that blame women for sexism 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z After a year spent pointing out Trump’s unbelievable unfitness for the Presidency, he tried to make the election result seem continuous with the patterns of American progress. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The interactive exhibits revealed something else: my unfitness for maritime life. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z A stretch in the army ended when he was discharged for “psychological unfitness”. Rutger Hauer obituary 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Under the amendment, only the prime minister or the government has the power to determine a leader’s unfitness. Israel’s High Court hears a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z It also gives only the prime minister or his government the power to determine a leader’s unfitness. Israel’s High Court hears challenge to law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Proving mental unfitness is difficult because an individual with a mental illness has certain rights. How to Get Custody of Grandchildren 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Over the weekend he spoke at the Christian right "Pray, Vote, Stand" summit in Washington and mocked President Biden mercilessly over his alleged mental unfitness and then said this: Donald Trump keeps confessing to new crimes 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z That I also expect some kind of punishment from the Republicans renominating Trump, notwithstanding his unfitness, doesn’t make me inconsistent, because presidential politics isn’t quite the same as baseball. 2024’s Field of Nightmares | Ross Douthat 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The Republican-led House voted 121-23 to impeach Paxton in May, with the 20 articles of impeachment including abuse of public trust, unfitness for office and bribery. Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial begins with a former ally who reported him to the FBI 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The 20 articles of impeachment include abuse of public trust, unfitness for office and bribery. The impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton is set to begin in the Texas Senate 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Paxton is accused of engaging in misconduct, private or public, of such character as to indicate his unfitness for office, as shown by the acts described in one or more articles. A look at the 20 articles of impeachment against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z But regardless of their partisan affiliation, what they have in common is the tendency to commit some farcical malapropism early in their campaign that exposed, in a soundbite, their unfitness for office. Column: Vivek Ramaswamy's idiotic play for airtime is working, God help us 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Beyond the civil and criminal allegations of misconduct, perhaps the single most compelling argument for Trump’s unfitness for the presidency is his cruelty, Opinion: Republicans attack the DOJ and the FBI, but it's Democrats that should have a beef with the feds 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z They include abuse of public trust, unfitness for office and bribery. Texas businessman tied to impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton to appear in federal court 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The committee recommends in a unanimous vote that the state’s top lawyer be impeached on 20 articles including bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust. Timeline of events leading to the impeachment of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z "Given the dangers of unfitness in an influential office, it should be one of the most vital societal responsibilities for health professionals to point this out, in order to protect the public's health and safety." Can a politician's mental fitness for office be diagnosed from afar? 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Her laserlike focus was on Trump, on what he did and failed to do, and on his unfitness for any public office, let alone the highest in the land. Opinion | Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney are the Jan. 6 committee’s unusual dynamic duo 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Cheney's pronouncement about Trump's unfitness for office echoed through my mind. Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers America a Christmas message: But why was he here? 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z But members of the commission, which includes law enforcement personnel and reform advocates, questioned why the commission’s authority to remove recruits who show signs of psychological unfitness wasn’t applied to Rankine. WA police academy eyes removing more recruits who show red flags 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Casual observers of the American political scene have perhaps noticed that Biden's critics frequently point to his age as proof of his unfitness for office. Biden is now America's first octogenarian president. Here's what that means 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z In 2024, the Republican Party might present the nation with a presidential nominee whose unfitness has been demonstrated. Opinion | For the good of the country, Biden and Harris should bow out of the 2024 election 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Mainstream Republicans who are still backing the party after January 6 and the leadership's ongoing endorsement of Trump, despite his obvious unfitness, probably aren't going to be persuaded. Biden's MAGA warning drowned out by GOP hissy fit 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z During last week's hearings, Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy, a former U.S. attorney, likewise suggested that Trump was not stable enough to lead to the country, saying, "the evidence pretty clearly shows his unfitness." Fox News abruptly turns against Trump as Jan. 6 hearings leaves the MAGA-verse in shambles 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Pence must have recognized Trump’s manifest unfitness for the presidency, but all the while he said nothing. Opinion | Jan. 6 was Mike Pence’s proudest day. He should own it. 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z To the extent that media coverage equates Biden's age with an automatic presumption of unfitness, Aronson ruefully noted that it does indeed seem to be rooted in prejudices against elderly people. Biden is now America's first octogenarian president. Here's what that means 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The Senate acted as a filter of unfitness. Opinion | The Jackson confirmation hearings show a Republican Party in decay 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Komuro has become such a vilified figure that even his new ponytail hairdo has become a symbol of his unfitness to be involved with the royal family. You’ve heard of Harry and Meghan. Now meet Mako and Kei, who have Japan in a tizzy. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Removing Trump by impeachment or by invoking the 25th Amendment governing unfitness for office remains a high hurdle, however, with less than two weeks remaining in his presidency. Republicans largely silent about consequences of deadly attack and Trump’s role in inciting it 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Trump’s conduct illustrates, as well as anything else over the past four years, his unfitness for office. Opinion | George Conway: A presidency fueled by lies finishes with the worst of them all 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Afterward, “the great little Madison” recorded that Washington demurred, protesting his “unfitness to judge of legal questions, and questions arising out of the Constitution.” Review | Four presidents who put Virginia’s stamp on early America 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z As head of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Mr. Johnson pushed a corruption investigation of Mr. Biden’s son Hunter that he bragged would expose the former vice president’s “unfitness for office.” Opinion | R.I.P., G.O.P. 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Just hours before Joe Biden gave his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, 73 senior national security officials, nearly all of them Republican, attested to the unfitness of the current occupant of the White House. Last call for the 25th Amendment? Trump's Cabinet won't depose him — but they should 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z "We want to showcase the danger and devastating consequences of his unfitness," Steslow said. George Conway-backed Lincoln Project hopes to make Trump's "worst nightmare" come true 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z What a perfect political set-up: a secret session, no public statement or discussion of the nominee’s unfitness, other senators winking at the maneuver because they might want to do the same thing one day. Editorial Roundup: Louisiana 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Responsible journalists don't want to create a false impression of the relative magnitude of Biden and Trump's unfitness for the job. How to cover Joe Biden's flaws — without repeating the 2016 mistakes of "but her emails" 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It is still forbidden to speak publicly in major news media about Trump's evident mental unfitness. What does Trump mean by "war president"? He's sending his own followers out to die 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z But Trump’s gross unfitness is only part of the problem. Opinion | The United States is a country to be pitied 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z "When Trump reacts to these ads, as he often cannot resist, he only amplifies the message of his own unfitness," Steslow said. George Conway-backed Lincoln Project hopes to make Trump's "worst nightmare" come true 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z These actions demonstrate Trump's disloyalty and unfitness to be president, yet Senate Republicans refused to hear testimony after the House impeached him last year. How Bill Barr is advancing Trump’s quest to become "president for life" 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of mental-health professionals, testing the bounds of professional ethics, have warned for years about Trump’s unfitness for office. Opinion | George Conway: Trump went ballistic at me on Twitter. Here’s why he reacts with such rage. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Of course, neither the Journal nor Hume are likely to admit what the tweet is evidence of: Trump's spectacular unfitness for office. Fox News analyst Brit Hume scolds President Trump over his "ridiculous tweet" 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Terror-management theory, he replied, helps explain “why Trump’s approval rating continues to climb despite his obvious incompetence and unfitness for office.” Does Surging Existential Dread Help Trump? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z "That says a lot about Trump's unfitness for office--which, in turn, suggests the warrantedness of impeachment." Mitch McConnell blames delayed coronavirus response by President Trump on impeachment 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z There is no need to elaborate on President Trump’s manifest unfitness for leadership. Opinion | The stimulus should focus on Americans who need the most help 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Bad as they are, these examples are more symptoms than causes of Barr's unfitness for office. Bill Barr, finally under fire: Will Trump's henchman survive a DOJ insurrection? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z If one is clearly unfit for office, then we have to think about unfitness to stand trial. Psychiatrists tell Congress Trump's acquittal was invalid: “Not mentally competent to stand trial” 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The warning by retired American generals of the widespread unfitness of today’s youth to serve in the armed forces is shocking. Editorial Roundup: Mississippi 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z GOP representatives are repeatedly caught looking the other way over Mr Trump’s corruption, lawbreaking and manifest unfitness for office. The Guardian view on Trump’s impeachment trial: the perils of outrageous immunity | Editorial 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z Both Johnson and Mr. Trump amply displayed their unfitness for the presidency before getting the job. Opinion | Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z But I also think they have a moral obligation to come out before the 2020 election and say what they know about Trump’s unfitness. Opinion | If officials believe Trump is a danger to the country, they have a duty to say so 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z A district court upheld his dismissal and the loss of his teaching credentials based on what it called “immoral and unprofessional conduct and evident unfitness for service.” Even when they aren’t fired for being pregnant or gay, teachers face strict moral demands 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z From the moment he entered the Oval Office, Trump has produced daily proof of his unfitness for the job. The Observer view: a week that shows us why Donald Trump is unfit for high office | Observer editorial 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Sure, they decided to prop and pretty him up, a man whose unfitness for the Oval Office was never really in doubt, out of tribal loyalty, a force far too potent in American politics today. Opinion | How to Sell Your Soul to Donald Trump 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The evidence of Trump’s unfitness for the Presidency—whether it is calculated or simply deranged—is inescapable. Donald Trump’s Idea of Selective Citizenship 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z And that question — the heart of an impeachment inquiry — turns upon whether the president abuses his power and demonstrates an unfitness to serve under the defining principles of our Constitution. Opinion | Trump just invited Congress to begin impeachment proceedings 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z But that is precisely the point: We thought his unfitness was evident before he was elected, and Americans chose him anyway. Opinion | We knew who Trump was but elected him anyway. We can’t impeach him for that. 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z Schiff added, however, that if Trump "continues to stonewall" Congress, and "demonstrate his unfitness for office," congressional Democrats could move forward. Schiff says impeachment 'is destined for failure,' calls GOP 'cult of the president's personality' 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z All of this goes much further than simply kvetching about Trump's intemperance or general unfitness. Could Don McGahn lead a Trump exodus? Republican lawyers may be ready to jump off sinking ship 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But the detail he provided shows that Trump's dishonesty and unfitness for the office he holds is indisputable. Mueller's report has a clear purpose: It's a roadmap for impeachment 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z For Democrats, even if the politics of impeachment have fizzled, the Trump-Russia story remains proof of Trump’s unfitness for office. Our President of the Perpetual Grievance 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The Mueller investigation lulled us, then, into hoping that Trump’s essential unfitness for office would find objective confirmation by our system of criminal justice. Mueller could never have saved us from Trump. That's what politics is for | Lawrence Douglas 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z If the charge were unfitness for office, the verdict would already be in: guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Opinion | George Conway: Trump is guilty — of being unfit for office 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office,” she wrote. Democratic U.S. Senator Gillibrand to launch 2020 White House bid 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z That he doesn’t understand that people may end up dead because of it shows unfitness for office. Trump’s Syria flip-flop 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z As for Trump’s manifest unfitness for office, smart Democrats assumed the president himself would pound home that message. Midterm America: A blue wave from another universe 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The mistake, of course, was to seize on evidence of criminality as the standard by which to measure unfitness for office. Mueller could never have saved us from Trump. That's what politics is for | Lawrence Douglas 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Is your reportage a case for Donald Trump’s unfitness for office? Q&A with Bob Woodward: Trump’s gambling presidency is ‘a national emergency’ 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z In 2016, Trump’s fame overcame such trifles as his ignorance, lack of experience and glaring unfitness for office. Opinion | Taylor, Kanye and the bad blood of politics 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z As Corker said, Trump’s unfitness has been obvious from the beginning. Opinion | We’re in a constitutional crisis. Only voters can save us now. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z But Flake and Corker — and the many other Republicans in the Senate and the House who privately acknowledge Trump’s gross unfitness — are afraid to back up their words with deeds. Opinion | Want to honor McCain, GOP? Grow a spine. 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z For while proof of serious criminal actions may suffice to demonstrate a president’s unfitness, the opposite hardly is true: absence of clear criminality hardly resolves the question of fitness. Mueller could never have saved us from Trump. That's what politics is for | Lawrence Douglas 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The Cohen plea, in particular, is further evidence, if it were needed, of Trump’s manifest unfitness for office. Impeaching Donald Trump is not the way to defeat Trumpism | Martin Kettle 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The president’s performance revealed more clearly than ever his unfitness to be our foreign policy leader. Trump’s homage to Putin at Helsinki proves him unfit to govern 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Trump’s behavior in Helsinki is, however, another vivid reminder of his manifest unfitness for office. Mike Pompeo and John Bolton should have the decency to resign 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z When minor things are said to be an indication of his unfitness office, major things don’t have that much effect.” Do Republicans disapprove of Trump's meeting with Putin? 'They couldn't care less' 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Trump’s remarks seemed less concerned with Romney’s criticism of his demeanor and unfitness for office and more about defending his entrepreneurial acumen. Donald Trump’s presidency: Yet another failed product. Will he ever face the consequences? 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Without a finding of unfitness, immigrant parents should be granted reunification with their children. The truth about family reunification: Many children separated by Trump will never be reunited 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Even for non-citizens, there has to be a compelling reason for the state to intervene, and parents being charged with a misdemeanor for unlawful entry does not on its face constitute “unfitness” to parent. Donald Trump backs down on family separation — but the trauma could last a lifetime 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z In addition to the Jewish children killed, thousands of other children were euthanized during the Nazi era for their alleged unfitness. A review of 'Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna' by Edith Sheffer 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Over the affluent zip codes of the US, meanwhile, a wail of aghastitude hangs in the air, a constant moan over Trump’s unfitness for the high office he holds. Forget Trump – populism is the cure, not the disease 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Transgender people in our military deserve more from their government than a myth-driven proclamation about their unfitness for full civic inclusion.” White House announces ban on transgender people serving in military 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Kuczynski resigned as lawmakers prepared to vote for the second time in three months whether to oust the 79-year-old leader from office for “permanent moral unfitness” in a plenary session of Congress. Peru president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns amid corruption scandal 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Republicans, carrying the weight of Trump’s unfitness, tried multiple messages. Fear and loathing and big money in Pennsylvania 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z His manifest incompetence and unfitness for office are as clear as the blue skies in Montana. Do Trump’s ‘Approval’ Numbers Tell Us About Him, or About Us? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Their unfitness for office degrades any US initiative to foster democracy. As West Fears the Rise of Autocrats, Hungary Shows What’s Possible 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The second is Trump’s complete unfitness for office based on his character and his unrelenting assault on morality, ethics, truth, norms and decorum. The sovereignty and the soul of a nation 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Can the people who surround Donald Trump continue to work around his incapacity successfully enough to keep his unfitness from producing a historic calamity? Presidential incapacity and the American system 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z President Trump’s unfitness for office was obvious long before he was elected. Opinion | The dam of denial has broken 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Rather, the big question is organizational, managerial, and psychological: Can the people who surround Donald Trump work around his incapacity successfully enough to keep his unfitness from producing a historic calamity? Opinion | Trump’s Petticoat Government 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Try to grab the headlines away from the revelation of Trump's staggering ineptitude and unfitness for office revealed in the new gossip tell-all by launching another witch hunt. Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Many see clearly Trump’s unfitness but continue to support him because they fear the wrath of his hardcore base and see the chance to enact a conservative agenda. Opinion | Trump’s first year was even worse than feared 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Rather, the big question is organizational, managerial and psychological: Can the people who surround Donald Trump work around his incapacity successfully enough to keep his unfitness from producing a historic calamity? Presidential incapacity and the American system 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Golden’s political opponents held it up as proof of his unfitness for office. A Routine Run In, Except for the Senator in the Passenger Seat 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office. Trump accused of 'slut shaming' senator 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr Moore’s manifest unfitness for office has given Democrats their best chance in a generation to win an Alabama Senate seat. Alabama’s Senate race is too close to call 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But his moral bankruptcy and unfitness for office were evident long before he reached the White House. The Guardian view on Republican attacks on Trump: where are the others? 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Living out loud means exposing Trump's unfitness: in his inattention, he walked away from a smiling members of Congress, leaving his prized executive order ending healthcare support payments unsigned--increasing America's domestic carnage. Opinion | Trump, Chieftain of Spite 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Now Corker says what could have been said two years ago about Trump’s unfitness. Opinion | Sinister figures lurk around our careless president 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z And could his unfitness cause permanent damage to the country? Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s all well and good to hear these men acknowledge Trump’s unfitness, but here’s the thing: he did not suddenly become unfit overnight. GOP’s Trump attacks too little too late 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And the damage caused by his unfitness will just keep growing. Puerto Rico and health care magnify Trump’s ineptitude 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Any admission of regret or misjudgment would be seized upon by her opponents, chief among them the Social Democrat candidate, Martin Schulz, as evidence of her fallibility and unfitness to remain in office. Merkel’s commitment to refugees is admirable. But it may backfire | Mary Dejevsky 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The Clinton campaign should have outed Trump as a fake populist rather than focus on his general unfitness for office. Review | A tale of the 2016 campaign, with rallies, rage and plenty of beer 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z But the real problem has always been Trump’s fundamental unfitness for high office. Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s all well and good to hear these men acknowledge Trump’s unfitness, but here’s the thing: he did not suddenly become unfit overnight. GOP’s Trump attacks too little too late 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z She had a sense of her own fitness to be princess, and unfitness for any other role. The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z And this is where Trump’s temperamental unfitness for the office he occupies is disturbing for reasons that go far beyond party or ideology. Opinion | Once again, Trump has done all he can to divide us 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z This uncertainty, like the chaos in the White House and the extraordinary disarray of the American body politic, stems from Trump’s glaring unfitness for the highest office. The Observer view on Donald Trump’s unfitness for office | Observer editorial 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z He has appointed a government of plutocrats, mostly mirroring his own unfitness for office, who appear determined to dismantle the institutions that have made this country humane, strong, prosperous, and respected. Is Donald Trump simply the worst human being we can imagine? 14 experts weigh in 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Every week — nearly every day — brings fresh, stomach-churning evidence of President Trump’s unfitness for office. Opinion | The latest evidence of Trump’s unfitness may be the most revolting 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z According to the same research, Democratic messaging centered too much around personality and Trump’s unfitness for office, rather than on how Democrats would improve the lives of young voters. Democrats need to win over young voters. Here's how they can do that | Sean McElwee and Causten Rodriguez-Wollerman 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But even as leading Republicans continue to excuse President Donald Trump’s monumental unfitness, they are finding it almost impossible to coalesce into anything resembling a successful working majority, despite a remarkable degree of ideological coherence. Open warfare breaks out among conservatives: March in lockstep behind Trump, or show some infinitesimal spine? 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But using impeachment as a corrective to Trump’s unfitness to govern risks damaging the integrity of the ballot. Opinion | The path to impeachment is an uneasy one 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Beyond the political risk, there is the existential risk of blindly following a man who continues to demonstrate his unfitness for the presidency. Opinion | In Congress, Republicans are quiet and meek as mice 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z As expected, Trump’s critics used this latest controversy to highlight the president-elect’s shortcomings and his unfitness for office. Sorry, folks — Donald Trump “won” his Twitter feud with John Lewis 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z He was sorry that, on the campaign trail, he had spoken so often about Donald Trump’s unfitness for office and not enough about what Hillary Clinton would do for the middle class. Joe Biden: ‘I Wish to Hell I’d Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z A Trump presidency, to be clear, that many in the Republican establishment rightfully feared because of the mogul’s demonstrated unfitness for office. Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z We agree that attention paid to his unfitness is to Ms. Clinton’s benefit. Hillary Clinton is amply qualified to be president 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Here is the machine media uses to equate Trump's total unfitness for office to Clinton's emails. Obama criticizes FBI: 'We don't operate on leaks' – campaign live 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z This was the Paul Ryan who, in the popular imagination, is nearly crippled by his dismay at the unfitness and the amoralism of Donald Trump. Paul Ryan on the Road for Donald Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z I mean, in her most rabid streak of attacks on Donald Trump’s alleged unfitness for office, Mrs. Clinton doesn’t call him “psychotic.” Hillary Clinton’s ‘psychotic’ lies she gets away with 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The scripts to the three essays he was going to record for his series, “The Closer” — each a fiery burst of outrage about Mr. Trump’s unfitness for the presidency — lay on a table before him. Now at GQ, Keith Olbermann Takes His Outrage Online 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Thus did the GOP nominee further confirm his unfitness for the White House, as well as the cravenness of those elected leaders in his party who continue to endorse him. Donald Trump’s dangerous ploy to destabilize democracy 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Her husband, James, was more concerned with Clinton’s unfitness to be president than anything Trump had said. A tumultuous day in the life of a Republican Senate candidate 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z And his alleged unfitness for office was underlined by leaked emails from former Republican defense secretary Colin Powell, who called his party’s nominee “a national disgrace” and an “international pariah”. Ohio center stage as Trump takes five-point lead in key state 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z There is no equivalence between Ms. Clinton’s wrongs and Mr. Trump’s manifest unfitness for office. The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “Ms. Clinton’s emails have endured much more scrutiny than an ordinary person’s would have,” they shrug, and besides, “there is no equivalence between Ms. Clinton’s wrongs and Mr. Trump’s manifest unfitness for office.” Holt and Catch Fire 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Out of nowhere they are being interviewed every day in primetime and their tragic story repeated everywhere as evidence of Mr. Trump's alleged unfitness. Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Let’s celebrate Trump’s fiascos: they won’t change his twisted personality nearly as well as they broadcast unfitness for office. Narcissist in chief: The danger of having Donald “Citizen” Trump in the White House 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Ms. Clinton was widely praised, for example, for her searing attack last week on Mr. Trump’s unfitness to lead as commander in chief. What kind of campaign will Hillary Clinton wage now? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Now he is showing his cards, however, and they are utter garbage: racism, ignorance, capriciousness, egomania and general unfitness for office. Endorsing Trump will leave a stain 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Clinton delivered a scorching speech on national security that sharpened her message on Trump’s unfitness for the presidency. Donald Trump: 'It's possible' a Muslim judge would be biased 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Clinton invoked Trump’s own words as her main weapon to demonstrate his unfitness for the job. Clinton: Trump is ‘dangerously incoherent,’ ‘temperamentally unfit’ to be president 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But except for a passing reference to “populism” Stephens indicts Trump on the right grounds: his manifest unfitness for the job. “The clan leader of white Americans”: Conservative David Frum perfectly explains how the disintegration of the GOP has created Trump 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Especially if Mrs. Clinton runs a generic and complacent anti-Trump campaign that takes his presidential unfitness for granted, the GOP hope is that the presidential unpopularity contest becomes self-cancelling. The Senate GOP’s Trump Survival Plan 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z “The fact” of Mrs. Clinton’s “unfitness for the Oval Office” is, to him, as “self-evident” as that of Trump’s. You May Already Have Won 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z His unfitness starts with basic issues of temperament. The conservative case against Donald Trump 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z On Saturday morning, Trump rolled up his french cuffs and got down to work by firing off a barrage of angry tweets about Cruz’s unfitness for the presidency: Donald Trump might actually be in trouble now: How he tried to smear Ted Cruz this weekend—and got booed! 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “The egregious conduct demonstrates his present unfitness to remain in office,” the justices said. Judge who threatened to fight lawyer removed from bench 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z According to the book, Messina was also important in identifying Miliband’s unfitness for office. Tory co-chairman claimed Obama sent pollster to UK to stop Miliband, book says 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z He said that her statement that his actions were “crazy” was an assertion of “unfitness to perform the duties of his office or employment” and that it harmed his reputation. Manassas City detective drops libel suit against lawyer in ‘sexting’ case 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The impeachment resolution accuses Koskinen of having “engaged in a pattern of deception that demonstrates his unfitness to serve as Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.” Republicans seek to impeach IRS chief over alleged tea party targeting 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z How much more evidence of his unfitness for office does Texas need? Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Her far-right, fringe views and policy prescriptions clearly demonstrate her unfitness for the US Senate, good looks and cute slogans notwithstanding. Iowan’s Playbook, for Women to Win Men’s Vote 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Hospital officials said Wednesday that their goal is to ensure that Sarah receives the most appropriate care based on scientific evidence and added that the question has never been about “parental unfitness.” Court sides with Ohio hospital on Amish girl’s care 2013-08-29T00:12:07Z Georgia is noted by experts as having a problematically high bar for proving mental unfitness for execution. Mentally disabled man granted last minute stay of execution 2013-02-20T16:21:00Z “This information might then be misused, for example, by a contentious spouse as evidence of unfitness to parent in a custody case,” the report stated. Cheaper DNA sequencing brings privacy risks 2012-10-11T20:53:00Z "But if you get breathless walking at a slow pace, that is not ill health or disease, that is unfitness." Olympics should inspire over-70s 2012-08-12T23:26:26Z One interesting outcome of a recent investigation into the army of unemployed in England was the discovery of the general unfitness of these unemployed. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Surely he had seen enough of outward appearance coupled with inward unfitness. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z They also say, that "several other cases have been proved of the appointment of incompetent or unfit men; but, in general, they were removed as soon as their unfitness became known." Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z The other reason is that in meeting novel problems the mental set or attitude is likely to be one which rejects one after another response as their unfitness to satisfy a certain desideratum appears. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z They are therefore at liberty to examine any children known to be at work, and any certificate of “unfitness” sent to an employer would probably be effective. Boy Labour and Apprenticeship 2012-03-30T02:00:18.807Z It is obvious that although we may institute the strictest elimination of the socially unfit, unless we can provide a wholesome environment for the fit, lapses into unfitness are sure to recur. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z I withdrew from the battle in my unfitness, and let the world pass on and forget my poor existence. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z No one has yet presented to me a single charge of unfitness or incompetency. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z This the �sthete-reformers fail to see because they lack a sense of the unfitness of things. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The proofs of his unfitness for such a duty, on account of his almost total deafness, furnished by the opening of the Josephstadt theatre in the preceding year, were still before his eyes. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z Many believe that it should apply to the women as well as to the men, and others feel that the law should be extended to cover still other kinds of marital unfitness. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z If he does not decline his destiny, as Werther did, it is his honor to have felt its unfitness for his eternal scope. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The fact that women have not in the past equaled men in "philosophy, science, art, invention and management" is frequently adduced as evidence of their innate unfitness for pursuits other than the domestic. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Fifi did not share his young mistress’s ideas as to the unfitness of the peasantry for association with the high born, and took a decided fancy to Katherine at first sight. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z Yet in respect that we have a faculty for enjoying the occasional unfitness of things, it is delightful. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z In addition to the unfitness of such scenes to the character and every-day life of the sitter, they are the most unsuitable for pictorial effect that can possibly be employed. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z Her misgivings as to her unfitness for court life were quite justified. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z His forebodings as to the unfitness of the blacks for self-government have been fulfilled to the letter. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Like Jeremiah, like Isaiah, like all great reformers, Moses is profoundly imbued with the sense of his unfitness for the task laid upon him. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Some are hindered by a constitutional unfitness, their natures being ill-disposed to the acquisition of knowledge. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The wide difference in age, and the fitness and unfitness of the many competitors, resulted in the race being won by the foremost while the rearmost were struggling fifteen miles behind. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Riveted to supreme beauty in the jaws of death, we pay little attention to the subordinate parts, and scorn, when recovered from sympathy and anguish, to expatiate in cold criticisms on their unfitness or impotence. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z In the five years of married life, our home had filled up with articles which by colour and line and unfitness jarred on every sense. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Street has now become so generally accepted that it seems necessary to look a little further into the evidence of the fitness or unfitness of this designation for them. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z It did not greatly matter which direction he took; he had no particular objective in view: he wanted chiefly to shake off this annoying sense of unfitness. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Bring all your sins, and unbelief, and sense of guilt, and unfitness, and doubts, and infirmities,—bring all to Christ. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The minister to Spain was Soule, of whom we have already heard enough to indicate his very conspicuous unfitness for the task assigned to him. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z I have so strong a sense of Greeley's utter unfitness for the presidency that I cannot well express it. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z One of the factors of modern Labour-unrest, indeed, is the physical unfitness of debilitated and neurotic working-men to cope capably and cheerfully with the tasks of earlier and sturdier generations. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z This week, as Berlusconi’s dazzling unfitness for office advanced the prospects of financial breakdown in Italy, across the European Union and in the wider world economy, his tenacity appeared to fail at last. With Berlusconi Gone, Will Europe’s Leaders Save the Euro?: View 2011-11-09T00:32:01Z Indeed, nothing is needed, save hell itself, to complete the misery of one who feels he has to meet God, and knows only his own unfitness to meet him. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z In the library itself you may see almost any day abundant proof of the unfitness of those admitted to enjoy the privileges which are allowed them. Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z There had seemed to Louie to be an extraordinary unfitness about them. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Hence much of their unfitness to criticise the writings of men of the world. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Some persons, when he first spoke of taking no pay, laughed at his unfitness for office, and he was strongly advised to resign, as he got nothing but ridicule for his pains. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z For a dismal moment Kennedy thought of going up to the captain and pleading unfitness for further duty. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z The result was a general incapacity and unfitness for affairs. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Meanwhile the sword-bearer formed in his mind a project of unheard-of unfitness, but which he considered uncommonly clever. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z This act appeared to Stayner to be a fresh illustration of the unfitness of local legislatures to deal with an institution like the post office. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z But our recompense for this personal sense of unfitness is the glory we gain in the eyes of our beloved. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Jack bit her lips, put her hand to her face to feel the sudden flush which had suffused it at the thought of her own unfitness for so great a responsibility. The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire 2011-08-31T02:01:23.303Z All imperfection is unfitness to the conditions of existence. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z A closer examination finds in this apparent unfitness, a deeper harmony of thought. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z It is discouraging and checks the better feelings, desires and efforts in doing their best, and in time the result will be callousness, indifference and unfitness for any good whatever. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z And the description which followed only emphasises the present writer’s unfitness for the task he has undertaken. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z In this unhappy place the arbitrariness, the unfitness, the carelessness of men has counteracted the holy will of God, making the wrong victorious! For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z This unfitness must consist either in having a faculty or faculties in excess; or in having a faculty or faculties deficient; or in both. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z Simon was fit to be used just in proportion as he realised his own unfitness. The Making of an Apostle 2011-07-26T02:00:19.187Z If he does not discover his unfitness 231 until the second year has begun, he loses two years. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It was not until Mrs. Grace rebelled over quiet that Isabel fully realized her aunt's unfitness. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z It was the same regarding the laziness or unfitness of any in their daily work. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Finally all excess and all deficiency must disappear, that is, all unfitness must disappear; that is, all imperfection must disappear. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z He shrinks from the thought with a hurt sense of moral unfitness. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z “May I suggest,” said Sir Mark Ingleton, “that a sense of the unfitness of his attire also weighed with him?” King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The churchman did not receive this proof of ignorance in his penitent, and of her unfitness for the rite he had just administered, with the same pity and indulgence. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z With regard to General Hunter, his ferocious personal defiance, hurled from the very Bench, demonstrated in a flash his preëminent unfitness for any function that is judicial even in a military sense. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z It is not his sex, but his selfishness, that makes man’s unfitness. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The councillors protested their unfitness for military exploits; but at the same time, as at Lyons, refused to communicate with the Hôtel-de-Ville, considering "that one can only treat with honest men." History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Perhaps the fault had been in his surface unfitness for the censorious gaze of the Bagdadians. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z But even our most unworthy Castilians soon saw the unfitness of that union. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z This quality was so predominant, that to it a large proportion of his original failures, and of his unfitness for general public business, which chiefly belongs to detail, is to be traced through life. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The irregular character and varying duration of conscious states, however, soon bring home to us the unfitness of these subjective phenomena to serve as a standard measure of time.” Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Doubtless we can live through a good deal of confusion, but it is not on any lines of functional unfitness that life is to be fulfilled. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z I should have been able to; that is where I showed my utter unfitness for the undertaking. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z This was clearly their right, and when the unfaithfulness of Sidney Rigdon and his unfitness for the place is taken into account, not even Josephites can say the church did wrong in rejecting him. Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-13T03:00:23.193Z One might have supposed, from our failures in these attempts, that we should have learned at least our own unfitness for success. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z If the shoulders seem wider than the haunches; because, this appearance generally arises from the narrowness of the pelvis, and its consequent unfitness for gestation and parturition. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z That they should come from a man who is professionally a diplomatist, is evidence of his indiscretion and unfitness for his political calling. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z “Our marriage was no mistake, except my own unfitness to be your husband!” The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z The fitness or unfitness, the beauty or ugliness of these will often be the ground of his adoption or rejection. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z He felt that that was his one hope, and he could not be magnanimous enough to insist upon its dissolution, and of the unfitness of his prospects to her own. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z In your letter you make certain specific charges against Dr. Crum, tending to show his unfitness in several respects for the office sought. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Oh, men and women! if you are in this hall, feeling that you are unworthy to be here, your very unfitness makes you fit. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z A party of the officers, three or four in number, proceeded to the owner’s residence—I believe over the Moors to Pickering—for the express purpose of complaining of my Father’s unfitness for the command. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z I am confident His Majesty is fully aware of the inconvenience and unfitness of our present apartments here. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z His one appearance at the bar taught him his utter unfitness for that pursuit, for his natural shyness on that occasion quite overcame him. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Many faithful workers in the Sunday school realize their need of preparation; but, while conscious of unfitness, they have no clear conception of the equipment which they require. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z Indeed, Mr. McIlhenny's unfitness by training and experience for the delicate and important position which he is filling was one of the most generally admitted facts which I gathered in Haiti. Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2011-01-22T03:00:17.567Z But a little disrelish was threatened by an accidental sight of the process of cake-making, which it required the full measure of indifference to trifling unfitnesses among the sailors of the mess to get over. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z I agree with you, sir, as to the unfitness of a church for all distinction, and shall be happy on every account to get rid of my canopy, though that has an historical connection, also. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Another associated consequence, which here more closely concerns us, was the partial stoppage of the process of natural selection in remedying unfitness. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z She seemed grateful for what had been done for her, and a partial realization of her own unfitness for association with refined people. The Girl From Tim's Place Under the first, much stress will be laid upon the "anarchy" which existed in Haiti, upon the backwardness of the Haitians and their absolute unfitness to govern themselves. Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 2011-01-22T03:00:17.567Z Without exception, these men came to us in a state of complete physical unfitness. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War The subsidiary religious exercise is purificatory subsequent ablution for putting an end to the sense of unfitness from begging, living on broken food, &c. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy Do you not suppose that the wild creatures, whose very existence depends upon their sharpness of observation, are likely to note the unfitness of the thing quicker than we? Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers All reluctance and pleas of my unfitness for this responsible post were futile. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History A vast mass of "evidence" was cooked up, pretending to demonstrate the unfitness of the Indians for any greater measure of liberty than they were already enjoying, which was practically none at all. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Then, too, she had a sense of the ungraciousness and unfitness of hastening a guest's departure. Barbarossa and Other Tales By the Clergy Discipline Act of 1892 it was decreed that the trial of clerks accused of unfitness to exercise the cure of souls should be before the consistory court with five assessors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" How could he explain the unfitness of Ayala's temporary sojourn with people so wealthy and luxurious? Ayala's Angel She would give that as her reason for taking away the boy—his mother's unfitness to be his guardian. Shadows of Flames A Novel To this Chapuys had no valid answer, for none could be given; and he discreetly turned the argument by reflecting on the unfitness of Cranmer also. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII His failures were not from rascality but from some weaknesses, and from a general unfitness for the new duties to which he was too old to adapt himself. The Spanish Pioneers These devices are evidence of the demand for larger revenue, and also of the increasing unfitness of the existing direct taxation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" No better evidence of the unfitness of contemporary opinion to gauge the real and ultimate position of any author in the hierarchy of genius could be cited than the case now before us. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series At a tea-party which took place quite early in my club career, Dr. Holmes expatiated at some length upon his own unfitness for club association of any kind. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 I most heartily rejoice at it, because of the evidence it affords that my blood flows in your veins; but at the same time it proves your unfitness for the counter and yard-stick. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist By 1495, the just displeasure of the Crown with the unfitness of the first viceroy of the New World caused Juan Aguado to be sent out with an open commission to inspect matters. The Spanish Pioneers And so they show their weakness, their unfitness for bearing responsibility, their cowardice when the world is calling for courage. The Book of Courage The very fact of his mistaking the letter—a palpable evidence of his unfitness for trust. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago This is by all odds the longest Modern English poem in alexandrines, and while the verse is often agreeable, it illustrates the unfitness of the measure—to English ears—for long, continuous poems. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History You may remember, my dear friend, that after having run through the school-philosophy, I became sensible of my unfitness for metaphysical speculations, and therefore totally abstained from engaging in them. The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man and The Cold Heart One of Mother Duchesne's first petitions to her was to be deposed from her office of Superior, on her usual plea of her total unfitness for it. Venerable Philippine Duchesne No, Oliver Goldsmith’s velvet and lace were the expression of a deep and painful sense of personal unfitness. The Intellectual Life The reply of the Court adds one proof to many of the unfitness of men not belonging to the ruling class to exercise supreme authority. Rulers of India: Lord Clive I contend that in both cases this unfitness of each for the place of the other frequently will and ought to exist. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But a 2,000-pound shell and 400 pounds of powder in the 100-ton gun proved anew the unfitness of this material for armor plating. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Is not this like a confession of my unfitness for the station I am to occupy?—are not these signs of inferiority? The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He saw and heard everything, and rapidly drew his own inferences, not alone of their poverty, but of their unfitness to struggle with it. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Every step of the proceedings shows only too plainly the utter unfitness of the clauses of the Bill to rural conditions. The Hills and the Vale Rarely some of the organismal characters resulting from such germinal modification may be in the direction of greater adaptedness; usually they are neutral or in the direction of utter unfitness. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics When they began Durant saw a faint hope of release in his own stupidity, his obvious unfitness for the game. The Return of the Prodigal All will agree with me that material portraiture often fails to express even mortal man, and this declares its unfitness for fable or fact to build upon. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 With many people, finery seems to mean good dressing, yet their clothes jar, cry out, even "scream out their unfitness and unwholesomeness, and betray their dishonesty, shame and sacrifice." The Colored Girl Beautiful I agree with you, sir, as to the unfitness of a church for all distinctions, and shall be happy on every account to get rid of my canopy, though that has an historical connexion, also. The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts There can be no doubt as to the unfitness of marriage into such a family. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics Mrs. Fazakerly's little gray eyes could read the characters of men and women at a glance, and as instantly inferred their fitness or unfitness for her purpose. The Return of the Prodigal He himself confessed his unfitness for dealing with questions of finance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" In every way I have been taught my weakness, my instability, and my unfitness for the world. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The great refinement of many poetical gentlemen has rendered them practically unfit for the jostling and ugliness of life, and 84 they record their unfitness at considerable length. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Can there be any doubt regarding the unfitness of these matings? The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics He has my admiration; he is a brave man; when I was young, I should have run away from the sight of you, pierced with the sense of my unfitness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Hook seems to have derived his qualifications for this office from his antipathy to arithmetic and his utter unfitness for business. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 In the case of a local preacher the providential issue may be the man's own discovery, sooner or later, of his own unfitness. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching A strange, but not unaccountable difference, which, so long as it may continue, will furnish a strong argument of the unfitness of the colony for a representative assembly. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants Since the opening of this session, all that he has said and done has proved his utter unfitness for the place he occupies. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III Would that its sacredness could sanctify the unfitness of him who here fulfils it. The Gates Between In foreign countries there are many superstitions as to the fitness or unfitness of days, times, and seasons; but in England May appears to be the only month supposed to be unlucky for weddings. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements The brother concerned does not always discover his unfitness. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching This reference to Her Majesty was fiercely opposed by the Clear Grits as being a tacit acknowledgment of Canada's unfitness to exercise that responsible government for which she had contended so long. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion Hamlet exhibits the unfitness for a world of action of the man who is foolish enough to see two sides to every question. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) So they drag on until there occurs a prospect of marriage, when they suddenly wake up to a consciousness of their utter unfitness to become the head of a family. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 If she binds herself secretly to a man whose moral unfitness is objected to, she is courting certain misery and possible disgrace. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements The unfitness of the triumph covered me with confusion. Pepita Ximenez And it was amusing to think, as a comment on his fierce consciousness of Herr Lippheim's unfitness, that here Herr Lippheim was, admitted to the very heart of Karen's sorrow. Tante His plays are apt to be a continuous declamation, cut up into fragments, and assigned to the different actors; and the essential unfitness of such a method to dramatic requirements needs no elaborate demonstration. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) There were no such unfitnesses as those of which he would have thought in dealing with the lives of some other girl and some other young man. Marion Fay To the high cost of aircraft their comparative fragility is added as a reason for their unfitness for commercial uses. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Where this right is abused the mother can obtain custody only by applying for separation or divorce or proving in court the unfitness of the father. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV And this adoption of it has been joined with a caution against misunderstandings arising from its unfitness. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I As if in scorn of his unfitness, Reid had picked up his gun and put it back in its sheath. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek The Post Office clerk had indeed abstained from coming, having urged his own feelings with his friend as to certain unfitnesses. Marion Fay After amazing outburst, proving unfitness for any public trust, narrowly avoids tar and feathers and escapes. Mixed Faces No thought of incongruity or unfitness seems to have arisen, and at the same time those little courtesies which gentlemen instinctively pay to ladies were never omitted. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV But he was not a good liar—his father had long since recognised his unfitness for any diplomatic mission. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue Mackenzie did not want this loss charged against him as another example of his unfitness to become a master over sheep on the profit-sharing plan. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek Under this state of uneasiness and perturbation, I feel some unfitness to consider a subject of so delicate a nature as that you have desired my thoughts on. Patrick Henry Never was any human being more utterly out of place than David in this sail-boat, and never was any human being more serenely unconscious of his unfitness. Among the Brigands And a second and a third month may only deepen the sense of ignorance and unfitness. The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer Besides, their fitness or unfitness has nothing to do with it. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue His very form indicates at once, an aptitude for that species of exercise which war and hunting call into action, and an unfitness for the laborious drudgery of husbandry and many of the mechanic arts. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Billy has just demonstrated his unfitness to be class president. Be It Ever Thus To widely depart from any of these received canons of etiquette is to commit a decided solecism and to discover an utter unfitness for the desired social rank. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society As she cooled and her passion descended to a less exalted level, she began to see the difficulties of, and her unfitness for, the rôle she had so impulsively accepted. Counsel for the Defense So I soon rejected the theory of Fred being bilious, though any reason for his unfitness except Nina would have been welcome. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate The goat having been given time to demonstrate his unfitness for the task he had undertaken, Tomaso’s whip cracked again. Kings in Exile Ranny came near and gazed inscrutably at this miracle of physical unfitness. The Combined Maze A relief party was at once started, which Kane led himself, despite his impaired health, physical weakness, and general unfitness for such a desperate journey; as always, he spared not himself when danger threatened. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History An attack from hostile Indians proved Wingfield's unfitness for the military command, and the alarmed colonists turned instinctively to the bravest of their number. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History There are mistakes and mistakes; errors of judgment, such as the most capable man makes in the course of a life, and errors of conduct which demonstrate essential unfitness for office. Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles He had easily promised your mother not to betray her existence to her husband, but the memory of her face and some uneasy sense of unfitness troubled him, I suppose. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker The effect of knotting in the mass is shown in Illustration 31, embroidered entirely in knots, contradicting, it might seem, what was said above about its unfitness for outline work. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery The slum stands for ignorance, want, unfitness, for mob-rule in the day of wrath. The Battle with the Slum He declined the post on the ground of unfitness, but had he accepted it, the issue of the crusades might have been different from what it was. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Indeed, as the imbecility of a shallow 210 pate is made all the more apparent by a position of distinction, so is the utter unfitness of certain words for their position painfully manifest. English: Composition and Literature Under such a system success or failure is no longer proof of natural fitness or unfitness. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy II., his unfitness for the English throne, i. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Until this shall be done, the consideration of fitness and unfitness, merit and demerit, are considerations for the law-making power. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II In demanding a place in the world of work, the unfitness of her dress seemed to some, an insurmountable obstacle. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I More fatal still, perhaps, was the unfitness of Basedow for the directorship of the institution. History of Education Taking no account of the unequal conditions under which the competitive struggle is carried on in human society, they would make success proof of fitness to survive and failure evidence of unfitness. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy The main effort should convince the President of the unfitness of one candidate and the fitness of the other. The Art of Disappearing She felt a heartache, as she thought of her friend's unfitness and inevitable disappointment. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Mr. Fox in his late harangue in the British House of Commons, in favor of more equal suffrage, concedes the unfitness of females to share in elections. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I With less discretion than good-humor, Erskine gave countenance to the representations of his enemies by ridiculing his own unfitness for the office. A Book About Lawyers Do they make the question of success or failure, survival or elimination, depend upon individual fitness or unfitness? The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy The new To’ Kâya was fully sensible of his unfitness for the post, and determined to do all that in him lay to remedy his deficiencies. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula But there happen to be degrees of unfitness—yours and mine for instance, you blind old bat! Captain Desmond, V.C. Although so much has been said of woman's unfitness for public life, it can be seen, from Semiramis to Victoria, that she has a peculiar fitness for governing. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It recoils upon its framers, and proves nothing but their intense hatred of their victims and their total unfitness to sit as judges. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 Fitness and unfitness are the ultimate ideas that are involved in the terms right and wrong. A Manual of Moral Philosophy Now, a monkey cannot wear clothes, smoke cigarettes, perform before applauding audiences and return to the jungle without a certain feeling of hateful unfitness among his gibbering brethren. The Free Range With the filled stomach, fatigue, general exhaustion, came as a sudden attack rather than as an evolution from labor, and there would be several hours of unfitness for doing any kind of service well. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure I told him that it was the unfortunate destiny of a House of Lords to be made to see her own unfitness for legislative work. The Fixed Period The sense of sin, of unfitness for God’s presence, is the groundwork of true knowledge or worship of Him as the Holy One. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy We are so constituted that we cannot help regarding fitness with complacency and esteem; unfitness, with disesteem and disapproval, even though we ourselves create it or impersonate it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy “You must excuse the unfitness of my dress to come aboard a strange ship, but really I left my own in such a hurry that I had no time to stay for a change.” Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure It may seem a strange thing to you, but a sense of unfitness is sometimes one of the very best qualifications for such work. The Chautauqua Girls At Home Putting aside the greatest of all obstacles, that of constitutional unfitness, as having already been discussed in the preceding pages, the first obstacle to be encountered is that of ill health. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance God may appear to keep the door closed against your working for Him in the way you would wish; your sense of unfitness may be painful. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy It is the power of perceiving fitness and unfitness. A Manual of Moral Philosophy Putting aside the greatest of all obstacles�that of constitutional unfitness�as having been already discussed in preceding pages, the first obstacle to be avoided is that of ill-health. How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer He drifted into the profession on the tide of his own vanity and continued in the lower ranks through the merit of his complete unfitness to advance a rung higher. A Pirate of Parts Impatience to settle a matter so important was itself seen to be a positive disqualification for true service, revealing unfitness to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God Every man in the service is liable to immediate dismissal for unfitness, negligence, or misconduct. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction At every moment, each intelligent being is either faithful or unfaithful to these relations, and thus in a state of fitness or unfitness as regards outward objects and other beings. A Manual of Moral Philosophy That the Church is now growing away from them only proves their unfitness as "the highest conception." Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect This last remark is an insinuation of her unfitness to die, and that her soul is ripe for perdition. When the Birds Begin to Sing He hoped that the coach would give him his opportunity then to declare his unfitness for work, but Mr. Robey paid no attention to him. Left Guard Gilbert If called to it, let us at the outset admit our unfitness, withdraw within our own borders, and leave these larger duties of the world to less incapable races or less craven rulers. Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses What is transmitted in history and in science is the record of fitnesses or unfitnesses that have been ascertained by observation, or tested by experience. A Manual of Moral Philosophy Caroline, perhaps, would not so much have minded this flaw in her future husband's faith if it had not been proof of his unsteadiness, of his unfitness for the world's battle. The Bertrams He was now fifty years of age, unaccustomed to public speaking, and burdened with a sense of unfitness for the work before him. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Watching the little girl, Kara in a measure forgot what she felt to be her own unfitness for her distinguished r�le. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest The Negro is a barbarian, and barbarism is not humanity but inhumanity; hence the unfitness to the case, of such illogical reasoning as is adopted by the advocates of Negro equality. The Right of American Slavery But if so, there is evidently something that escapes God, to wit, the meaningless and unfitness, the error and evil, of the stages in their successive isolation. The Approach to Philosophy Pitt well knew his unfitness, and deplored the consequences. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Its very vacuity told of the man's exceeding unfitness for the rôle thrust upon him by certain desperadoes in the far off Balkans. A Son of the Immortals You felt yourself, or your uncle felt for you, the unfitness of your having charge of such valuables. Margaret Montfort Is this no evidence of the unfitness of the African for civilization? The Right of American Slavery A fortnight ago all who considered themselves unfit were invited to send their names in with a statement of the grounds of unfitness. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship This was the theater where his own little drama of unfitness and failure and private mortification had been staged and acted. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights She was convinced, in short, that she had been embarked upon a hopeless piece of snobbery, and, finding the whole business distasteful, it had not been difficult to discover her unfitness. Tutors' Lane This was not the first instance that great unfitness achieved high rank in our armies and it was quite common for great merit to be entirely unrewarded, and indeed entirely unknown. Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River The law was powerless, and demonstrated its own unfitness to safeguard life and property, as so often it has in this country. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado But that shrewd individual pleaded unfitness and lack of time and refused to be cajoled into becoming a candidate. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Girl in the Carpathians and Scholar in Politics are titles of current publications taken at random to illustrate the personal element and its unfitness. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 Some of them are brittle, and break, others are soft, and bend, so there are a large number of those in use which will have to be discarded on account of unfitness. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet "You see how unfit I am to bring up a child—I acknowledge the unfitness—and yet to send him away from us would almost break my mother's heart—you see that." A True Friend A Novel They have a sense of their ruggedness, their unkempt earthiness and their general unfitness for the great ceremony. A Circuit Rider's Wife Many of the poor worn-out old pensioners shed tears as they marched on board, feeling their utter unfitness for the duty they were called upon to perform. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold "You have taken a great deal of trouble to inform yourself upon the subject of the medical profession and my unfitness for it." The Lady Doc He trembled at the thought of having been in such apparent contact with the spirit land, while his unhappy soul chided him with a sense of his unfitness for that unknown life beyond. Oowikapun How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians The house was very small, and from the incivility of the inmates and the unfitness of the place, we expected poor lodgings. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 He had shown his unfitness for it in his interview that morning, even if in the eyes of the world it could have been at all. Marcia Schuyler Let us be humble if we sit in high places and hold the fate of others in our hands; for no clear-sighted man can fail to be sensible of unfitness for so grave a rôle. The Simple Life For it afterwards appeared that Edith had casually mentioned that the other girls had been talking among themselves of this question of Polly's fitness or unfitness to continue a "Torch Bearer" in the club. The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The fact that senators are mainly rich does not imply unfitness, but quite the contrary. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Mrs. West, in her “Letters to a Young Man,” pointed to it as evidence of Mary’s unfitness for the world beyond the grave. Mary Wollstonecraft C——, in reply, dwelt not on Sutton's fitness for India, but his unfitness for the Chair. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents Note also the instance of the scribe who proffered to become a professed disciple, but, probably because of some degree of insincerity or unfitness, was rather discouraged than approved by Jesus. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Really, Prince Koltsoff, I must ask you to consider your demonstration of my unfitness to even consider myself an American complete. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Like the accusers of the woman taken in the act of sin, prayers like these are inwardly convicted of unfitness, and go forth. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. Dreamers were scoundrels or lunatics who sought to justify their unfitness for society by ridiculing it as unworthy and by phantasizing over new values and standards which would be more amiable to their weaknesses. Erik Dorn He thought of translating Lucan, but Melpomene appeared to warn him against so ambitious an enterprise, and admitting his unfitness for the task, he applied himself instead to this translation "out of sundry Italians." Early Theories of Translation Spiritual pride and self assertion can only be the outcome either of misunderstanding God's relation to us, or else of a wrong state of mind towards others—that is, it betokens mental or moral unfitness. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Masson even sees reason to think that he began the first pamphlet before his wife left him, but when, no doubt, her unfitness to be his wife was only too evident. Milton In other words, since the Cynic continues to live after having rejected the proper instruments and forms of life, he must make a living out of the charitable curiosity excited by his very unfitness. The Moral Economy It would seem as if they ought to have told their own miserable tale of superficiality and unfitness to the Colonial Secretary. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Rash personal conduct which might be tolerated in a lieutenant would in a lieutenant- general be conclusive of his unfitness to hold any general command. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 To the Nephite disciples Jesus taught many other matters that had been withheld from the Jews, who through unfitness to receive had been left in ignorance. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern Efficiency and fidelity to duty do not prolong the employment; unfitness and neglect of duty do not always shorten it. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes It is no longer possible simply to dismiss large groups of human beings from consideration on grounds of what is held to be their unfitness. The Moral Economy No cloud rested upon me, no allegation of misconduct or unfitness was made against me. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. But many I met there fell by the way, not alone by the accidents of battle but because of unfitness for command or general inefficiency. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 In Sullivan's column some of the soldiers could not cover their muskets from the wet, and word was sent to Washington of the unfitness of their arms. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn He loved to preach, though he felt a deep sense of unfitness. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Medina-Sidonia is understood to have taken the command reluctantly, as if aware of his unfitness for so great a task, as indeed was proved by the event. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II The only disadvantage to commerce in the saltness of the sea is the consequent unfitness of its water for drinking. The Ocean and its Wonders Yet there was a curious feeling of unfitness or dissatisfaction with the part he was going to play. The Dictator The great loss they had sustained, the want of provision and shelter, in the extraordinary Wet; the unfitness of many of their troops for war, &c.; undoubtedly contributed to this resolution. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn He needs to be rid of every encumbrance of physical unfitness if he is to live long and become a blessing and not a burden to society. Society Its Origin and Development The Chillicothe was then withdrawn, after receiving another shot, which killed one of her ship's company, and showing her unfitness for action through scamped work put upon her. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. This want of caution in an officer, when entrusted with the lives of brave men, is a very great fault, and shows great folly and an unfitness for command. Hurricane Hurry My second reason for objecting to the proposition is the absolute unfitness of the negroes, as a class, for any such responsibility. Forty-Six Years in the Army They seem to have been rather a light-hearted crew, in spite of their misfortunes and sufferings, and they not only amused themselves, but they amused their neighbors by their gay unfitness for the backwoods. Stories Of Ohio Physical fitness in a girl of twenty may, during one short year of teaching, give way to physical unfitness. Civics and Health In like manner one who is about to conduct the prayers of a Congregation may carefully prepare his subjects, phrases, and words, so as to avoid disorder in the subjects and unfitness in the words. The Prayer Book Explained His unfitness for his position had become too obvious to be denied; he had given offense in quarters where he should have made friends; he had irritated=160= the king and provoked the cabinet. Benjamin Franklin The real problem in the arguments on rime is its fitness or unfitness in particular kinds of poetry. The Principles of English Versification The place is very distasteful to me, and what is of more importance, I fear I may hereafter demonstrate the unfitness I have to-day only stated. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 I disrate you on account of your unfitness for the post, and you will now return to your former rating, as I have restored your name to the list of the crew. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea At a high temperature, this effect is even produced by silica, whence the unfitness of ultramarine for painting on glass or porcelain; and simply by a prolonged red heat the blue is rendered white. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists The prince bases his suit for a separation on his wife's alleged epileptic attacks and consequent unfitness for the wedded state. Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania Overcome by a sense of isolation and unfitness, I slipped out of the room, avoiding the teacher's eye, and went home to write melancholy poetry. The Promised Land The worst forms of unfitness for marriage are hereditary, but some hereditary defects are mild, some terrible. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book The Binet tests have often been criticized for their unfitness to perform certain services which in reality they were never meant to render. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Then a great burden of unfitness and helplessness came upon him. The Kentucky Ranger This second way is the true way of dealing with feelings of unworthiness and unfitness. Letters to His Friends He soon showed his unfitness for the duties of quiet government. Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. Scandinavian. Such minor hereditary defects as hare lip or misshaped fingers do not necessarily indicate unfitness for marriage. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Such despicable retaliation against a woman was the last touch needed to prove his unfitness to protect the welfare of loyal little Daffydowndilly. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer These evidences of unfitness to cope with up-to-date corruption seemed to endear him to the masses. The Plum Tree There is nothing to indicate any change of opinion on Susan's part regarding Lincoln's unfitness for a second term. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian It's a sign of my unfitness for it that I'm able to abandon it. A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories Pole readily admits his hopeless stupidity and unfitness for office.' Historical and Political Essays The admirable execution of these works cannot blind the critic to the utter unfitness and folly of their conception. Art in England Notes and Studies His long-established habit of superiority helped him to avoid betraying his first sense of ignorance and unfitness. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Scarcely any removals were made during his Administration, and every one of the few was based solely upon a proved unfitness of the official. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series The little squadron had hardly set sail when the unfitness of the emigrants for their work began to discover itself. A History of American Christianity Of General Rosecrans' unfitness for any important command there can be no doubt. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 The young Laguerre received his education at a Jesuit College, with the view of entering the priesthood, but a confirmed impediment in his speech demonstrated his unfitness for such a calling. Art in England Notes and Studies Nothing is so great and clear a proof of unfitness for greater and nobler actions, than a mind which is seriously occupied with trifles. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 But we are free to say, that in these times the extreme of absurdity, and unfitness for use, is more the fashion than anything else. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings The inconveniences of an ordinary American town-house were pointed out to him,—its unfitness for the general state of society, the climate, the other domestic arrangements, and its ugliness. Recollections of Europe I do not regard the failure of our constitutional Union, as very many do, to be the failure of self-government—to be conclusive in all future time of the unfitness of man to govern himself. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Without her aid, they were simply remarkable for their similarity, their vacancy, their unfitness for any modern purpose save that of sheep-pens or lumber-rooms. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 In fact she was almost glad, for the moment, that Farquhar was so unfit for the position to which he was now called, when she realized how sorely that unfitness would try Christopher. The Farringdons But she realized, nevertheless, more than ever before, her unfitness for the work. One Woman's Life So long as young society women go into hysterics over pedigreed dogs and horses and then marry men reeking in filthy unfitness for parenthood, mothers cannot expect any other standard of morals. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies If at the expiration of one day from the publication of the last notice, no charges have been filed with the recorder alleging the applicants' unfitness to marry, license shall be granted. Applied Eugenics Instead of proving his unfitness for a career he loathed, he showed a marked aptitude for business, inherited no doubt from his father. The Way of Ambition Day labor offered only now and then, and in my increasing physical unfitness I could not hold my own against the trained muscles of seasoned roustabouts, porters and freight-handlers. Branded Willingly Shag went with her, making many protestations as to his disreputable appearance, and the unfitness of his well-worn stub-horns to battle for them; but he went. The Outcasts We must concede, however, that in many instances the teacher's unfitness is a direct product of the pernicious system itself. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Such unfitness makes more probable an inheritance of low intelligence. Applied Eugenics The impulse to lie—it is by this that I recognize every foreordained theologian.—Another characteristic of the theologian is his unfitness for philology. The Antichrist The maladroitness described by my father, of which I was fully conscious, added to the feeling of my unfitness for the world around me. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer This is the first opportunity in his history to prove on an adequate scale his fitness or unfitness for command and leadership. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Alcoholic Drunkenness.—Alcoholism is a sign and a symptom of degeneracy and is a distinct indication of unfitness for parenthood. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies By signs Graves roused the unnerved men to action, but he could find no sort of tool for himself, and stood empty-handed apart, conscious of unfitness. The Henchman So, with this experience fresh in his mind, he was resolved not to re-settle in his own commonwealth, but to go to a city, though feeling his unfitness for urban life. An Arkansas Planter The unfitness of her environment to her constitution is the saddest memory of my childhood. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Then—even as there flashed upon Robin the revelation of her own unfitness—came a knock at the door. Robin It was so beautiful of him to think himself not big enough for Althea, that she was well content that he should see Gerald in the same category of unfitness. Franklin Kane As for the eighty camel men, they were all Soudanese soldiers, discharged from the army for old age and physical unfitness. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman I urged you not to appoint me, and now indeed you see my unfitness. A Chinese Wonder Book Here he is indignant, not only in regard to some miscarriage of justice on that special occasion, but at the general unfitness of jurymen for the work confided to them. Thackeray Mr. Daubeny had no right to continue Prime Minister a day after the decided expression of opinion as to unfitness which had been pronounced by the House of Commons. Phineas Redux The causes of its unfitness form a long and intricate problem. The Breath of Life Weeding went on apace; but before its work was done, there had to be traversed a painful period, fruitful of evidences of unfitness, of personal weakness, of low or false professional ideas. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy It was a disingenuous speech, a speech to lull the country into confidence, a speech which, alone, should have been sufficient to prove Mr. Padgett's unfitness to serve on that committee. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Neither did an opposition to his administration alone, except there was a marked practical unfitness for office, ever induce him to remove an individual from a public station. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States He's got a red nose, and if she don't like a red nose,—that's unfitness. Phineas Redux All sorts of stories had been set afloat about the unfitness of the Admiral to hold such an important office. Days of the Discoverers No man recognises his own unfitness for such work more clearly than I do, Mr. Monk. Phineas Finn The Irish Member There had dawned on him, duskily and half-seen, the unfitness of little proprieties and verbose frills while he went to war across the roofs with this woman of passion. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories In the first place, it is not strictly correct to say that all illusion involves a practical unfitness to circumstances. Illusions A Psychological Study His biographer proves conclusively that the weak and time-serving President was opposed to secession; but as positively proves without intending to do so, that he favored it by his singular unfitness and indifference in emergencies. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 But there are some stage-struck gentlemen whom nothing can convince of their total unfitness for the stage. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales This unfitness you will readily appreciate when I tell you that he is at present a private soldier in a marching-regiment in the East. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood For in all grades of civilization above the lowest, “there are so many kinds of superiorities which severally enable men to survive, notwithstanding accompanying inferiorities, that natural selection cannot by itself rectify any particular unfitness.” The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin Turning to the more civil court, we find an almost equal unfitness between the courts and modern conditions. The Man in Court The King, every day manifests his utter unfitness to reign, in some new shape. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II At the same time, they strongly condemned the construction of the stair, and the unfitness of the balustrades to withstand pressure. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 As James Beattie’s college days drew on to an end he became more and more exercised about his mental deficiencies, and still more about his spiritual unfitness to be anybody’s minister. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents The time was at hand when none of us could hope to escape these tokens of regard, and the elaborate and ingenious character of their unfitness was frankly and fairly discussed. Americans and Others Indeed, this very unfitness for use as a school text seems to be the explanation of the temporary loss of several cantos of Kalidasa's second epic. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works At the same time, he repeatedly affirms the total unfitness of the King to govern. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Even here I quickly demonstrated my unfitness and have consequently been incorporated once more into the body of my regiment. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Most intelligent Russians, with no lack of real patriotism, rejoiced at the succession of defeats because it proved to the masses the unfitness of the bureaucracy. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Her answer is this moment arrived, and my representation seems to have reconciled them to the unfitness of the step. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals The inelasticity of it hampered sociability—and there grew on one, too, a sense of unfitness. The Business of Being a Woman He correctly gauged Denniss's fitness, or rather unfitness, for the command, and appreciating the awkwardness of my position, advised me so wisely that I had no difficulty in carrying on the work. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief But admitting the unfitness, and absurdity, and 'blasphemy' of such conceptions, it is by no means clear that any other conceptions of the 'inconceivable' would be an improvement upon them. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles We have already spoken of Grant as President, and of his unfitness for page 287that high office. American Men of Action It is a pity that you did not show them its unfitness for the stage before the play was published, and exact a promise from the managers not to act it. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals The gentleman then occupying the position of State Attorney was peculiarly unfit—in the midst of that world of unfitness—for the duties which he was supposed to perform. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs The peculiar plan upon which she wrote her fine plays, making each of them illustrate a single passion, was in great measure the cause of their unfitness for the stage. Records of a Girlhood Apologists of error find the presumed unfitness of their fellow creatures to appreciate truth a sufficient reason for not teaching it. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles It was characteristic of the man's egotism that, even yet, he did not realize his unfitness for the office, but thought himself great enough to disregard the precedent which Washington had established. American Men of Action His soul abhorred itself because of his unfitness to match with this ideal woman of his people. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel The unfitness of poets for business has been often enough proved to be a mere fond thing vainly invented; but it was never better disproved than in this particular instance. Matthew Arnold How I do hate, and have always hated, that stage funeral business, which I never see without a cold shudder at its awful unfitness. Records of a Girlhood It showed that she felt his unfitness to enter our little paradise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 His plea was reckless and tender but Joan shook her head; and Kenny realized with a sigh that her preposterous notion of unfitness was strong in her mind and would not be denied. Kenny Theoretical critics, at a loss to account for this singularity, accused not only our climate, but even our diet, as the occult causes of our unfitness to cultivate them. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions She felt the panic that all innocent women feel when suddenly aroused to the unfitness of their surroundings. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem I have sent it to the theater upon approbation, in the usual routine of business; and am waiting very patiently the decision of the management on its fitness or unfitness for their purposes. Records of a Girlhood The next thing to be treated of, shall be the ways of Apothecaries creeping into practice, and their unfitness thereunto. A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines. |
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