The phrase "a poor system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is ineffective, inadequate, or not functioning well in a particular context.
Example: "The recent survey revealed that many users are dissatisfied with the software, citing it as a poor system for managing their tasks."
Alternatives: "an inadequate system" or "a flawed system."
The subcommittee's extensive report on HSBC also concluded that US regulators knew the bank had a poor system to detect problems but failed to take action.
It's a poor system for tracking the subtleties of critical opinion – particularly the three-star rating, a grey zone that collects productions both warmly and coldly received.
It is ludicrous that the wealthiest, most industrialized and supposedly most civil nation on earth has such a poor system of ensuring that its citizens are healthy and well cared for.
It is a call for us to abandon a poor system of accountability that allows us to blame individuals but offers nothing that will help us to build a more functional system with an open and fair culture of accountability.
Dr. Bekedam said that a poor system for detecting and monitoring diseases was one reason health workers had not found the contacts for more than 50percentt of recent SARS cases in Beijing.
Several ships examined show a poor system performance with a course control derived from these models besides parameter identification problems of adaptive control concepts.
It's still a very poor system in terms of national benchmarking.
While such an action is classified as a 'use error', triggered by the commands provided by a user, it is poor system design that often creates the hazardous circumstance that predispose the error.
Dependability in the AAL domain is a critical requirement, since poor system availability, reliability, safety, or integrity may cause inappropriate emergency assistance to potentially have fatal consequences.
Also, a poor grounding system leads to instrumentation errors and harmonic distortions in any electrical system.
House builders have blamed over-regulation in Wales, a poor planning system and the delayed implementation of the Help to Buy scheme for borrowers.
