Lord Adonis, the former Labour transport minister, said the speech amounted to "a systematic hatchet job" on the culture at Network Rail, adding: "I don't think I've ever heard a CEO be so critical of his own organisation".
While some staff members had said they felt pressured to manipulate data, the report said there had been no systematic culture of bullying.
The schools becoming academies were far from random ("outstanding" institutions enjoyed special freedoms to convert; failing schools were sometimes forced), so the department proposed, and identified funds for, a systematic evaluation.
Alex Osborn, the "O" in BBDO, was one of the original mad men who attempted to make the creative aspects of advertising systematic.
Late last year, following decades of profound systematic abuse, institutional racism and the repeated denial of civil rights, Chicago citizens asked the United Nations to classify what their notoriously brutal police force does to them, in an American city, as a violation of international anti-torture statutes.
Seneca was probably generous in the sense that he used his wealth for grand parties and to buy friends and influence, but he never seems to have donated it to the very poor of Rome, and never founded anything like the Gates Foundation: philanthropy of this systematic kind did not exist in the ancient world.
The international criminal court (ICC) in the Hague has previously said there was insufficient evidence tying Nigeria's military to systematic and orchestrated atrocities targeting civilians.
It seemed time for a more systematic approach – just how do they do it?
Her decision to work as legal adviser to Bahrain's king, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, who has been blamed by rights groups for systematic torture and repression, raised eyebrows, but sources at her chambers in Doughty Street, London, say she is a tough, combative lawyer with experience gained as a prosecutor on the UN's Lebanon war crimes tribunal.
Such parental advice sits uneasily with the notion of undoing past wrongs that lies at the heart of transitional justice, whereby nations move from committing gross and systematic human rights violations to democracy.
The G7 has plenty to talk about: Greece; Ukraine; the next set of development goals and how to finance them; climate change; trade; the weakness of the global recovery; how to engineer the exit from the zero interest rate environment of the past six years; combating systematic tax evasion; and tackling inequality.
