It is not till we arrive at the final chapter, The Modern World, that serious inadequacies rear their ugly heads.

The Congressional Ethics Commission declared that Morales had committed "serious inadequacies in the execution of his duties."

In the longer-term, HMRC intends to issue penalties of up to £3,000 for serious inadequacies in record-keeping.

Now, those advocates say, they are struggling to preserve what to them is a system with serious inadequacies.

It cited a "serious inadequacy of efforts by security forces to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for violations of human rights and international humanitarian law."

The Comptroller, Edward V. Regan, said in an audit released yesterday that there are "serious inadequacies" in the way the department does business.

The report also shows serious inadequacies in the analyses performed by project proponents.

In a number of regions, sportswear workers producing for Puma have been increasingly vocal about the serious inadequacy of their wages.

In my view this is a serious inadequacy: an incapacity to build a real, strategic and lasting peace policy.

But the question was whether these extremely serious inadequacies which affect every aspect of its democracy were sufficient grounds for postponing the signing of the agreement yet again.