The Royal Navy operates a fleet of complex modern warships and submarines each comprising a system of systems often in harsh and potentially volatile environments.
A system of evaluations intended to revitalize the institute has been heavy-handed and harsh, say critics.
A system of accountability.
It exposes a system that is harsh in the extreme, penalising the most vulnerable of claimants by the withdrawal of benefits for weeks at a time".
A former slave, he instituted a harsh system of plantation labor, ordered a massacre of several thousand white Haitians and declared himself emperor.
They initiated projects to improve the colony's infrastructure, relying on a harsh system of forced labour.
At the end of a week in which the misconduct of Swiss bankers and their clients has been laid bare, the examples below reveal a tale of two cases exposing the double standards of a system that is far harsher on those who can't afford expensive advisers than on those who can.
You might think, then, that the courts had proved their mettle against mounting criticism and distrust of a system said to be insufficiently harsh.
It has proved remarkably resilient, officials close to both of them say, weathering strains over the leak of confidential State Department cables from a Pentagon computer system and harsh public criticism of the military's conduct from a former State Department spokesman, Philip J. Crowley.
