In 22, with virtually the entire empire rebelling against Wang Mang's incompetent rule, Liu Yan prepared his rebellion.

Empress Alexandra's increasingly incompetent rule drew protests and resulted in the murder of her favourite, Rasputin, at the end of 1916.

A decade of crooked and incompetent civilian rule before the takeover this week, a decade of competently brutal dictatorship before that, and life keeps getting harder for Pakistan's 138 million souls.

What westerners might interpret as Hungary following Poland in a nostalic lurch to the left, Hungarians see as a hope of professional government after four years of non-communist but incompetent rule.

By the end of the Xin Dynasty, peasants all over the country rebelled against Wang Mang for the years of his incompetent rule.

By AD 23, several revolts had broken out throughout China due to Wang Mang's incompetent rule.

Opposition leaders assailed the move and vowed to fight to contain the power of the general, whose early popularity in a nation disillusioned by a decade of corrupt and incompetent civilian rule has faded.

It might do us well to remember that this devastating war also has roots in the brutal and incompetent rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, the United States-backed dictator of Zaire.

John's incompetent rule allegedly infuriated his chief supporters, and Niketas is said to have marched with the army to Limnia to free Michael.

"Thirty years of Stalin's tyranny, 20 years of Brezhnev's incompetent rule is long enough to ruin any society, particularly a society that has no democratic traditions," Mr. Rybakov said.