unpromotable

You look like any oldish, unpromotable trooper sergeant, tough as hell, good man in a gunfight, steady, and hopelessly obsolete.

Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

You look like any oldish, unpromotable trooper sergeant, tough as hell, good man in a gunfight, steady, and hopelessly obsolete.

Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

In other words, the tribuneship was designed to be a political dead end—a place to confine the ranting and the rancorous, the incompetent and the unpromotable: the effluent of the body politic.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

In other words, the tribuneship was designed to be a political dead end—a place to confine the ranting and the rancorous, the incompetent and the unpromotable: the effluent of the body politic.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

However, these people are usually so efficient that they become unpromotable.

One At A Time? 2002

However, these people are usually so efficient that they become unpromotable.

One At A Time? 2002

So that, on the whole, I.suppose there is no more unpromotable, unappointable man now living in England than I. Literature also, the miscellaneous place of refuge, seems done here, unless you will take the Devil's wages for it; which one does not incline to do.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

So that, on the whole, I.suppose there is no more unpromotable, unappointable man now living in England than I. Literature also, the miscellaneous place of refuge, seems done here, unless you will take the Devil's wages for it; which one does not incline to do.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

What were you kicked out for? or were you just so unpromotable that you left so bitter and twisted?

Army Rumour Service 2010

What were you kicked out for? or were you just so unpromotable that you left so bitter and twisted? auxie:

Army Rumour Service 2010