But he and other Iraqi soldiers insisted that they were poorly equipped to battle the militias.
But they were poorly served by much of the choreography they presented.
They were not all sadists, but they were poorly educated and some had been criminals.
Architecturally, they were poorly suited for the climate and are likely to flood after a hurricane hits.
After being protected so long, some Indian businesses found that they were poorly equipped to deal with foreign competition.
He said more than 1,000 schools had one of two major flaws — they were built on the earthquake fault line or they were poorly constructed.
One even hinted that some billboards might be taken down on the pretext that they were poorly made and might fall and cause accidents.
At first they were poorly received by critics, but Leone was eventually recognized for his meticulous care for historical accuracy and his powerful sense of visual composition.
Last year, the government opened a handful of walk-in centers in London rail stations, but they were poorly publicized and patients complained that the clinics did not have access to patients' medical records.
What such examples actually show, of course, is that they were poorly designed, that their developers have no stake in maintaining them and that city officials lack the will to demand improvements.
The general's defense lawyers had argued that the commander was powerless to stop the Croatian militiamen because they were "poorly trained recruits" in a new and ill-organized command.
