Sentence examples for the once efficient from inspiring English sources

The once efficient Obama transition has ground to a near standstill after tax problems bedeviled several of his nominees, leaving the top echelon of his government largely unassembled.

Built by the Belgians in 1902 to bring minerals like copper to the Atlantic, the once efficient railways have deteriorated to the point that derailments and brake failures are regular occurrences.

The once efficient system of radio communication between FUNAI riverboats and bases is falling apart.

Six months into the nap programme, the once-efficient team was reaching only 55% of its weekly goals, down some 30 percentage points from before the sleep experiment, Mushtaq explained.

What was once efficient about the big corporate model--centralized, in-house functions warehoused together and professionally managed--is now terribly inefficient.

All these processes that, together, comprise biological evolution become possible and, actually, inevitable once and only once efficient replication of the genetic material is established.

Featherbedding provisions in labour contracts may result from the continuation of work rules that were once efficient but that have become obsolete because of changed technology.

Plagued by scandals and riven by internal feuds, the once boringly efficient party, which has controlled the governorship for 29 of the past 33 years, now seems unable to do the simplest things in politics—such as recruiting a new chairman.The latest crisis began with the resignation on June 28th of chairman Lee Daniels, who remains the party's leader in the state House of Representatives.

By then, perhaps the Giants will discover what happened to their once efficient offense, which was held to one late touchdown.

However, the inferences provided by this study provide many hypotheses, which can be rigorously tested once efficient plant-mediated RNAi systems have been developed to silence the expression of the diet-induced changes in transcripts in the insects [98].

CAPITALISM breeds specialization, which is at once efficient and unfortunate.