systemic failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsystemicandfailure
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systemic
adjective
uk/sɪˈstem.ɪk/us/sɪˈstem.ɪk/
biologyspecialized
A systemic drug, disease, or poison reaches and has an effect on the whole of a body or a plant and not just one part ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofsystemicandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This episode and thesystemicfailurethat it represents is an important metaphor for widersystemicfailure.
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A declaration of incompatibility will be asystemicfailure.
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Policy and guidance hardly address organisational practice, such as the correlation between resources and outcomes, although some public sector health and welfare organisations are now insystemicfailure.
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Thesystemicfailureto address the question of the structure of the proof of guilt demanded from the prosecution invites invalid convictions and invalid acquittals alike.
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They have not been the result of procedural failure orsystemicfailure.
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We also share his view thatsystemicfailureoccurred on this occasion.
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However, it seems to me that the system is not working—there issystemicfailure.
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Recent floods and serious droughts have exacerbated the problem of asystemicfailureof the state-run agriculture to feed its people.
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We have to distinguish between supervisory requirements, where we are guarding againstsystemicfailure, and regulation, where we are dealing with the conduct of business.
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Every declaration of incompatibility will represent asystemicfailure, as our statute book is already made to comply with our convention obligations.
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In an extreme this can cause failure of the whole network in what is known assystemicfailure.
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The only reason he might want to take urgent action in the case ofsystemicfailurewould be if he noticed at a rather late stage that the failure existed.
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The report's publication resulted in some highlighting what could besystemicfailurebecause of the number of complainants and institutions identified, but others criticised it for treating allegations as facts.
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