But Trump's order was much bolder and more systematic than anything they or the community had seen before.
But it was a colorful year as well, due to the systematic, try-anything-once eclecticism of the smugglers, and the antic game of Tom-and-Jerry escalation that they tend to play with law enforcement on both sides of the border.
"If you just look at the data plainly, it's difficult to see if there's anything systematic going on there," Dr. Lipson said.
Against that Romantic vitality, Mr. Barzun pitted anything "systematic" or "absolute," particularly the "scientism" that he saw as modernity's unjust revenge against Romanticism.
While there have been some "one-off problems," Stewart said he hadn't seen anything "systematic and widespread".
Contemporary media reports and a later UN investigation in 1974 faulted "Israel's deliberate destruction and devastation of the town," which included systematic looting (apparently anything that could be detached or unscrewed, even light bulbs, was taken by soldiers and contractors) followed by bulldozing and dynamiting.
However, there is no reason to believe that these potential sources of misclassification would be systematic, and if anything it would only have weakened our findings.
If anything, the systematic reviews (field synopses) in our examples have broader inclusion criteria than most systematic reviews and thus likely represent a more difficult problem: there are more eligible papers and thus more opportunities to miss them.
If anything, the systematic overrepresentation of Mormons among top businesspeople and lawyers affords LDS affiliation a certain cachet — rather like being Jewish, but taller.
But in a book whose method and pleasures are anything but systematic, the whole Broughton thing looks like a gesture at a structure that was never quite going to hold the material.
