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Nigeria's Transition Monitoring Group, which had observers across the country, said: "These issues did not systematically disadvantage any candidate or party".
People who are systematically oppressed do have to work harder than those who are privileged, and the positive spin is often that it builds character.
The Armenians were branded as an enemy within by the Ottoman government, which used the cover of the first world war to systematically dispose of more than 1 million people, forcing great columns of humanity to march off into the Syrian desert to die of heat, starvation and disease.
One might expect that more opinionated people would volunteer to answer questions – including about politics – and indeed there is evidence that parties that speak to people with strong views, such as Ukip, are systematically over-represented in the raw online numbers.
The jail itself "systematically violated inmates' constitutional rights", according to a 2010 stipulation by the US Department of Justice, through the use of "excessive force by staff, the failure to protect inmates from harm by fellow inmates, inadequate medical and mental healthcare, and a lack of adequate fire safety and sanitation".
The more relevant factor, however, as Higgins states, has been the government's sustained attacks on public arts funding (down £83m since 2010), and music education in particular, while it has systematically undermined the very sources of future audiences – for both music and theatre – through its Department for Education's devaluing of studies in the arts and humanities.
One of the report's most shocking findings is that, despite the high and rising death toll, "no organisation at the global level is currently responsible for systematically monitoring the number of deaths that occur.
It has found that the country's police and security personnel are systematically raping President Joseph Kabila's female opponents.
The kidnapping of more than 270 girls from Chibok three weeks ago has captured the world's attention, but Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sinful", has been systematically taking women from schools or villages across north-eastern Nigeria since May last year.
According to the RSPB, the last two breeding pairs of hen harriers in England failed this year to produce eggs for the first time in 60 years and are now on the point of extinction because gamekeepers working for rogue moorland estate owners have systematically persecuted the bird to protect baby grouse which live on the moors.
Human rights are being systematically violated in the world's tropical forests as conservationists, big business and governments ignore indigenous people and scramble for land in advance of a global climate deal.
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The adverb "systematically" functions as a modifier , describing how an action is carried out. It indicates that the action is performed in an organized, methodical, and deliberate manner. Ludwig AI confirms that it is correctly used in the provided examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
