"It needs work to iron out the inconsistencies," says Stephenson, "and we've put forward three areas where we're lobbying for change".
There are serious inconsistencies in his denial – and we'll get to them soon – but it was not the president's suspiciously narrow answer that was criticised by many pundits.
His failings were laid bare, his tantrums leaked, inconsistencies pulled apart on the front pages and on the evening news.
Otter and his team put forward 49 recommendations to improve the "policies, systems, training and leadership of undercover operations which if implemented should address the unacceptable inconsistencies and shortcomings that we have found".
Surely, the thought process goes, if Australia plays with the same inconsistencies and openness in Brazil, then it could end in disaster with group stage humiliation at the hands of Chile, Holland and Spain.
The inconsistencies are almost certainly no accident Cleverer people than me have framed the background to Google's behaviour already, but it's worth stating again that all of the obvious idiocy in the implementation suggests at the least that Google is far from whole-heartedly embracing the ECJ ruling.
You may have structural weaknesses, loose ends, stilted scenes, characters who shouldn't be there and some that are missing, thematic inconsistencies or problems you can't even identify but which stop you from moving forward.
The actions of Chua, a Filipino, have raised fears about unqualified foreign nurses working in British hospitals after it emerged that the investigation found inconsistencies in his medical qualifications.
But the reviewers found that the claim of inconsistencies was invalid, particularly as a variety of results are likely to be found by any such analysis, because all climate science deals in a range of possible future outcomes.
The question of legitimate use of urban land is an old one and full of inconsistencies.
There are enough inconsistencies and fabricated sequences in the memoirs to make them merely interesting documents rather than true accounts, but from a literary point of view there is a worse betrayal than that of the disgruntled rose.
