The long political strife in England, the gross mismanagement of colonial affairs under Germain, and the shameful blunders that made Saratoga possible, all combined to encourage foreign powers to take the field against the king's incompetent and distracted ministry.

Even the deliberate mismanagement of Hervey was barely able to create a deficit and Perris grew hot when he thought of the foreman.

He must share with General Winder, the immediate superintendent of the prisons, the responsibility for the heedless and brutal mismanagement,a mismanagement which brought death to thousands and which left thousands of others cripples for life.

The infamous mismanagement of Kansas, by his immediate predecessor, had just shattered the most powerful of our party organizations, and caused a mighty uprising of the masses of the North in defence of menaced freedom.

Can we venture not only to encounter the risk of their individual and mutual mismanagement, but at the same time to place our foreign and domestic policy entirely under the control of a foreign moneyed interest?

I do not know anything of the agreement made by the proprietors, except in the palpable mismanagement of a very exclusive and promising concern.

And yet it may not be the child's fault at all; but only the effect of ill-health, too much study and confinement, or pure mismanagement.

The investigation led to the discovery of many corrupt practices, and much oppressive treatment of the prisoners; and was followed by the enactment of measures for the correction of such shameful mismanagement and inhuman neglect in some cases, and for the prevention of severity of infliction in others.

Under such a government the difficulty of insuring concerted action was so great that, but for the transcendent personal qualities of Washington, the bungling mismanagement of the British ministry, and the timely aid of the French fleet, the war of independence would most likely have ended in failure.

" Surely there is some tragic mismanagement of the great business of living here.