How To Use Inefficiency In A Sentence
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They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
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‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.
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Distribution of food throughout the country is being hampered by inefficiency and corruption.
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The capital city needs at its helm a person with ideas and energy who can combat the forces of inertia and inefficiency, and who can initiate and manage urgently needed change.
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In some cases this instinct might be explained as reflecting the unworkability or inefficiency of a particular checkerboard solution.
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Their six months of filming was distilled into a one hour programme trailed as ‘a damning catalogue of inefficiency, neglect and substandard treatment.’
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The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
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The problem is not merely corruption and inefficiency, but the lack of viable alternatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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An inefficiency tax on the generation of dirty energy would be a brilliant thing, along with tax credits for installation of solar panels and energy-efficient retrofits.
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Among the primary readjustment problems for this cohort were the poor economic situation, the attitudes and gossip of locals, inefficiency, and the slow pace of life.
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The business at the police station took far too long, an exceeding politeness masking an exceeding inefficiency.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
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Our books have been pored over by consultants and there is no overspend or huge inefficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neil MuirShrewsbury• I wonder whether our political leaders have studied the words of Petronius in 200BCE Editorial, 21 February: "Reorganisation is a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Letters: More Danish yarns
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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Distribution of food throughout the country is being hampered by inefficiency and corruption.
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The inefficiency and lack of foresight in dealing with Italy's well-known earthquake risk was "desolating", Barberi said.
Undefined
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Even without corruption, ineffectiveness and inefficiency in the use of public money would follow decentralization, as a result of a lack of skills and knowledge.
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Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
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The effects of alcohol misuse spill over from private life into the workplace, causing inefficiency and accidents as well as absenteeism.
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However, because of their inefficiency, these restrictions are apt to boomerang against the industry in the long run.
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Over much of the past decade, efforts to pass a long-term reauthorization bill and significantly boost Amtrak funding foundered amid criticism from many Republicans -- including Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee -- over the 37-year-old publicly subsidized rail corporation's losses and inefficiency.
House Votes to Boost
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We have managed to create a jungle of inefficiency, throwing money at administration rather than research.
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In order to avoid the resource inefficiency of all-participated cooperations in amplify-and-forward cooperative communication networks, a new relay selection scheme is proposed.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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The idea is to eliminate inefficiency, creating a perfectly seamless manufacturing process.
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Operating risk - losses arising from inefficiency and poor management control.
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These unhealthy developments have led to thorough demoralization in the bureaucracy, rampant indiscipline and all round inefficiency.
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The rebels attack remote western provinces whose local governments are riddled with corruption, inefficiency and the effects of a cruel caste system.
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Sandy was once more demonstrating his inefficiency as a cook, and when he remembered that Sandy's name was printed smudgily upon that page of his life which he had lately turned down as a blotted, unlearned lesson is pushed behind an unwilling schoolboy, he began to consider seriously his next step.
The Uphill Climb
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Businessmen have complained that ships have been bypassing Port-of-Spain, due to heavy congestion and the general inefficiency at the port which, they say, in the receipt of containers.
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The effects of alcohol misuse spill over from private life into the workplace, causing inefficiency and accidents as well as absenteeism.
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First, because markets are imperfect in various ways they will tolerate serious levels of inefficiency.
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China is making progress in meeting targets to get 15% of its energy from non-fossil fuels by 2020, but it needs to improve and expand hydropower generation and deal with inefficiency in its wind-power sector, the World Bank said, adding that the country should improve interprovincial trade in renewable energy and better promote green electricity schemes.
World Watch
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At some point in everyone's lives, you realize the difficulty (and inefficiency) of getting your records faxed from a health care provider to an insurance company or another doctor.
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All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
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All this practice breeds is confusion, inefficiency and dissatisfied customers.
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It is also a 70-year-old jumble of bureaucracy and inefficiency and misaligned incentives.
Times, Sunday Times
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This method of planning was widely criticised for its inefficiency and its inability to adapt to changing demands.
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It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.
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Government planning and investment, on the other hand, would only breed corruption and inefficiency under capitalism.
The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
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No one criticises the gross inefficiency and gross overmanning because it could be your cousin threatened with redundancy. 70% of jobs in all Italy, not just the public sector, are on ‘raccomandazione’ – recommendation from a friend or relative.
The Sunday Essay: The state of Italy
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The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
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Here, the organization has had time to show its true colours, to show its inefficiency and its bungling.
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One-third to one-half of all the energy consumed by small business is wasted through inefficiency.
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Since the actual value of the prospective monopoly will depend on the value of the work to the public without reference to any particular political action, the public need not pay for the abuse and inefficiency likely in a more particularized payment scheme.
Lessig on Copyright, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Pan Africanist Congress leader Mr Clarence Makwetu accused the IEC of inefficiency and "conniving" to rig the elections.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I have been impressed by rhetoric on dealing with inefficiency in the public services.
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Ms Campbell has been appointed to root out inefficiency in this company.
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The manager was discharged for inefficiency.
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The congenital apathetic inefficiency bred by the regime as the best way of keeping people down had also delayed the demolition process.
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Political considerations, apparently, have delayed a clean-up of the most serious twin crimes of any bureaucracy - inefficiency and corruption.
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But Dalrymple's overal argument about the massive size, ineffectiveness, inefficiency and un-reformability of the UK public sector is 100 percent true.
Britain's Bureaucratic State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Despite its apparent inefficiency, the current U.S. system of coin denominations has a striking advantage over many other possible systems.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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This economic system is working in inefficiency.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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From the start he exploited the over-work, underfunding and inefficiency then endemic in many hospital accounts departments for his own crooked ends.
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The costs in lost output, economic inefficiency and diplomatic friction will be high.
Times, Sunday Times
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The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
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Lancaster, 54, had been unfairly blamed for the failings of an antiquated and underfinanced department with a long history of corruption, inefficiency and missing records.
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They have been plagued by infamous tinpot dictators whose corrupt practices, brutality and habitual inefficiency left many Latin American countries mired in political and economic instability for much of the 20th century.
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The ideal standard is an extremely tight standard; it demands perfection and does not tolerate waste or inefficiency in any form.
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It comprehends probes into departments of the Federal Government to expose corruption, inefficiency or waste.
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The mournful spectacle of a divided Christendom; of rival sects compassing land and sea to make proselytes; of the spiritual alienation of those who, in reality, belong to the one divine family; of waste and inefficiency in methods of evangelical effort; not to mention the error, pride, and worldliness inherent in the gigantic ecclesiastical systems known as denominational churches.
The Last Reformation
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The colonial powers procrastinated, either by inefficiency or intent (perhaps thinking they would get them for nothing if they did not pay).
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This idiosyncrasy was well known to his friends, who, whenever things became a little dull, were accustomed to make slighting remarks on Akiyama's inefficiency as a "death-dealer."
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It is the ultimate testimony to the gross inefficiency of markets.
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He says too much tax revenue is being squandered on bureaucracy and inefficiency.
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The inefficiency of retailer suppliers, internal accounting errors and an increasing rate of employee theft all weigh in on India's high shrinkage score.
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The downside was inefficiency, corruption and environmental destruction.
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It comes down to a gross inefficiency in the healthcare system.
Mail and Guardian
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But even in the elided quotation provided, Stiglitz says that “whenever information is imperfect and markets incomplete,” there will be inefficiency in market operations.
Nobel Prize-Winner Makes Intermediate Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The costs in lost output, economic inefficiency and diplomatic friction will be high.
Times, Sunday Times
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My diary is full of diatribes against the childishness, laziness, conceit or inefficiency of others.
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The culprit is not, on the whole, inefficiency, indolence or excessive private work by hospital consultants.
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Ms Campbell has been appointed to root out inefficiency in this company.
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Corruption and inefficiency dogged the private companies contracted to provide caseworkers - those charged with shepherding former welfare recipients to self-sufficiency.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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The callousness and the rank inefficiency of much of the current party leadership leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
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Government planning and investment, on the other hand, would only breed corruption and inefficiency under capitalism.
The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
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They were accused of gross inefficiency in their handling of the case.
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Higher spending practices were rewarded for their inefficiency and the more efficient penalised by lower budget allocations.
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We should not mistake informality for inefficiency, or naturalness for sloppiness.
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The former home secretary inherited a department that was a byword for inefficiency and incompetence, and ordered a large scale clear-out of the dead wood.
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Some in the Bush administration appear to believe that paying prevailing wages, maintaining nondiscrimination standards and documenting workers 'identities are examples of what they term bureaucratic inefficiency or red tape.
CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2005
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Distribution of food throughout the country is being hampered by inefficiency and corruption.
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It comes down to a gross inefficiency in the healthcare system.
Mail and Guardian
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The root cause of public sector inefficiency is the fact that public services are government monopolies which are immune from competitive pressures.
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There is still too much centralism - all roads do indeed lead to Brussels - and wastage and inefficiency have not been removed from the administrative systems.
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But on the other hand when you consider what a large proportion of economic activity still takes place in big city downtowns and how reliant this country is on automobile transportation it becomes clear that the systematic underpricing of parking in built-up areas is in fact a major source of economic inefficiency.
Matthew Yglesias » Parking Shortages Still Bad for Business
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This economic system is working in inefficiency.
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And why is it that all of Halliburton/KBR's "inefficiency" somehow redounded to the company's benefit and not the government's?
PolitiFact Embraces Equivocation, the Truth Gets Squeezed
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Our books have been pored over by consultants and there is no overspend or huge inefficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the term bureaucracy suggests a lack of initiative, excessive adherence to rules and routine, red tape, inefficiency, or, even more serious, an impersonal force dominating the lives of individuals.
Bureaucracy
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On the one hand, the country was encouraging the study of foreign languages for English monolinguals, at great cost and with great inefficiency.
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But there were those also who, despite habits or inefficiency, slipped through even formal examination; commanders whose ships were run by their subordinates, lieutenants whose watch on deck kept their captains from sleeping, midshipmen whose unfitness made their retention unpardonable; for at their age to re-begin life was no hardship, much less injustice.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
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Thus, the cronyism, nepotism, inefficiency and fraud inherent in democracy is largely meliorated by law and political mechanisms in America and Europe, but in Asia those remedies are still developing.
Asia's 'Democratic Crisis'
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We will not tolerate shoddy service, inefficiency or waste.
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In this sense, those bridges to nowhere are a sort of benevolent inefficiency, a form of waste that, just maybe, keeps us from becoming a banana republic.
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These criminals live big off the bribery, corruption and inefficiency of the transport division.
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This is because of the inefficiency of transporting heavy goods to a railhead to be loaded on to a train, only for the same expensive operation to be necessary when it is off-loaded at its destination.
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Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace.
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Regardless of overall inefficiency, it seems clear that more meals will be cooked over charcoal in the future.
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It would be quite wrong in thinking about the economics of socialist countries to focus exclusively on inefficiency.
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The inefficiency of retailer suppliers, internal accounting errors and an increasing rate of employee theft all weigh in on India's high shrinkage score.
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It is due to the inefficiency of the Government which no amount of Budget bribery can possibly erase.
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This economic system is working in inefficiency.
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In addition, logistics inefficiency increases transaction costs that in turn put more downward pressure on competitiveness.
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The result is inefficiency, the unnecessary duplication of services, extra pressure on overstretched surgeons and their teams and needless trauma for patients.
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In his public letter of resignation he accused the council and the mayor of inefficiency in the levying of taxes, and of sluggishness in the carrying out of development projects.
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Even when these managements showed losses in productive companies, nobody talked about their inefficiency.
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Ahenobarbus was pouring out upon their inefficiency a torrent of wrathful malediction, that promised employment for the "whipper" for some time to come.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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Dr John Marks, a past chairman of the British Medical Association, quoting Caius Petronius, warned that the revamp could end up "creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation".
NHS reforms: Is Andrew Lansley's brutal surgery really needed?
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He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole.
Joe Wilson's "You Lie!" | What Actually Happened...
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This method of planning was widely criticised for its inefficiency and its inability to adapt to changing demands.
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Through analysing the attribute reduction algorithms of consistent decision table, reasons of inefficiency are found.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
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Delayed recognition of cancer as a result of inaccuracy or inefficiency may also lead to increases in distress and disability for the patient, in addition to the eventual need for more radical treatment.
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The problem is not merely corruption and inefficiency, but the lack of viable alternatives.
Times, Sunday Times
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It claimed that an overbearing and threatening management style was leading to staff stress, inefficiency and ill-health.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt