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Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score.

His incessant talking and shouting and bellowing of orders had been too much for Wolf Larsen, who had accordingly foisted the nuisance upon his hunters.

It seemed to me that I could not fail to impress upon the intelligent red men of Barsoom the wicked deception that a cruel and senseless superstition had foisted upon them.

The same feint, with the same polite dexterity, she foisted on Mrs Meagles, as a conjuror might have forced a card on that innocent lady; and, when her future daughter-in-law was presented to her by her son, she said on embracing her, 'My dear, what have you done to Henry that has bewitched him so!' at the same time allowing a few tears to carry before them, in little pills, the cosmetic powder on her nose; as a delicate but touching signal that she suffered much inwardly for the show of composure with which she bore her misfortune.

The rank and file, however, were either foisted upon the city, or else lived off the population directly.

In his latest explosive tweets, the president complained that Sir Kim Darroch was a "very stupid guy" who had been foisted on the US.

Summary: Panaji (Goa) [India], Jan 18 (ANI): In a veiled attack on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha on Friday said some leaders are "accidental" and "foisted into the position by others" without giving much thought whether the leader "understands issues".

The ATC-II judge granted Rao Anwar bail primarily on the ground that the he had nothing to do with the weapons allegedly foisted on the victims since he was not part of the police team that took part in the alleged fake shootout, said defence counsel Amir Mansoob Qureshi.

New Delhi: Within hours of acquittal in the 2G spectrum allocation case by a special court, Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra said there was no wrong doing on his part but his company had to pay the price for the case foisted on him.

ALBION'S new technical director Nick Hammond is expecting a solid working relationship with Tony Pulis, insisting: "It's not like I am being foisted upon him."

Mainly because, due to the divisive nature of Brendan Rodgers' signings, there's been conjecture he favoured players bought by him over those foisted on him by the club.

Qobeisi added that so-called slogans foisted by west "Arab Spring activism" only led to the destruction of more than an Arab country let alone, the production of terrorism.