As the American authorities work to clamp down on any illicit flow of American-supplied weapons to insurgents, Mr. Geren, the Army secretary, announced that two new review panels would address immediate problems and systemic shortcomings in the contracting system.
The riot reflects systemic shortcomings in California's prison system, experts said.
"Everything seemed to be going so smoothly, and that allowed us to neglect our systemic shortcomings," he said in an interview.
Lacking resources makes students recognize larger systemic shortcomings, which I had little awareness of; it made me consider the dubious privilege of political ignorance that I had experienced as a teen.
If Ntini's illustrious career has tended for years to camouflage systemic shortcomings elsewhere, it still does not reflect well the development of black cricketers to international standard, a situation of which Majola disapproves vehemently.
The Association Agreement with its binding mechanisms would provide the needed tools to eradicate systemic shortcomings that are on the Union's wish list — including the cases of special interest, election law, corruption, the rule of law, and so forth.
The long-running "Ergenekon" investigation into an alleged coup plot has netted hundreds of arrests but not a single conviction.On January 10th the Council of Europe, a human-rights watchdog, released a report describing "long-standing, systemic shortcomings in the administration of justice" in Turkey.
Lt. Gen. Ron Helmly, who led the Office of the Defense Representative at the American Embassy in Pakistan at the time, was told that the Pakistani soldier who opened fire was unbalanced and was acting alone, yet he was left acutely aware of the systemic shortcomings of Pakistani investigations.
He said: "The systemic shortcomings highlighted by me today lead me to conclude that, on a balance of probabilities, the four deceased would not have died when they did in the manner in which they did had there been robust, clear and accountable procedures in place".
Now that Zika is at the forefront of international attention, let's remember the broader systemic shortcomings that got us here in the first place.
