In conducting the secret deal Lord Cranborne confessed to having behaved like an "ill-trained spaniel" and offered to resign.

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He paints an entertaining picture of the militias as an 18th-century version of the Keystone Cops, ill-trained and militarily useless.

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Moreover, we entered the war utterly unprepared, with ill-equipped, ill-trained troops.

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Primary schooling is now almost universal, but many teachers are ill-trained.

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On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.

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Karen Armstrong, a massage therapist and chair of the Michigan Board of Massage Therapy, acknowledges that some ill-trained therapists will get licensed because of the grandfather clause.

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But modern warfare does not require armies of ill-trained conscripts.

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The upshot is a competition for commercial development that pulls new buildings towards richer suburbs and out of city centres, which have ill-trained workforces and heavy welfare burdens and cannot afford favourable tax treatment for developers.

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Often the very best people to deal with people suffering with mental ill health are specially-trained medical practitioners - not police officers - and the best place for them to be seen is on medical premises, not within police stations.

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South Africa can ill afford the loss of its best-trained people.

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