Some still see them as pioneers in the movement to hold inefficient management to account.

Simply fencing off an area of sea has always been seen as inefficient management, and grates with fishermen raised to believe in the freedom of the seas.

The auto press said it was due to inefficient management.

It's a very structurally inefficient method.

They point out that locally inefficient methods can be globally efficient when they reduce the sequential phase.

He found that many homes had insufficient refrigeration, and suppliers were using inefficient methods of distribution.

Consequently, many justice agencies have been forced to resort to inefficient methods of delivering information to each other, such as delivering important filings and documents via the postal service.

And it's an inefficient process, say activists; packaging needs to be removed.

This was an expensive and inefficient process.

The bank has been plagued by high costs, inefficient processes that have hit customer service and suggestions of low staff morale.

In the new world of inefficient production and sluggish consumer demand, there will be a wave of pain among the car giants and their suppliers.

This price penalises excess use of carbon, for instance in the inefficient production of energy, and rewards reductions.

Old, obsolete products and inefficient production and distribution techniques simply cannot survive, and are blown away, to the benefit of consumers.

Reconstruction brought significant cuts in spending of inefficient production enterprises, which reduced their welfare responsibilities.

Growing government spending, large wage raises, and inefficient production created a chronic inflation that rose through the 1980s, when it briefly exceeded an annual rate of 1,000%.

Players cheat because football's perversely inefficient system of policing lets them get away with it.

The weaknesses of an economy with an absurdly generous retirement age, a chronically inefficient system of tax collection and flagrantly fudged national accounts have been exposed by the downturn.

It was an inefficient system.

The three-course rotation was an inefficient system, one-third of the land always lying fallow.

It also abolished the highly inefficient system of tax farming, whereby private individuals would collect taxes for a hefty fee.

Home births are also an inefficient use of precious midwife time.

People at the time had little awareness of, or consideration for, the far-off consequences of such inefficient use of our planet's resources.

Some are shabby and unloved and represent an inefficient use of space and costs.

Coupled with a notably inefficient use of energy, this has driven oil prices to unexpectedly high levels.

More goes in transmission to consumers and more still at household level with inefficient use of appliances, lights and devices needlessly left on.

In particular, he will call for it to develop training programmes to improve notoriously inefficient work practices.

Earlier designs of electric motors were notoriously inefficient because they had large, or very large, air gaps throughout much of the rotation of their rotors.

Private household plots, despite their small size (0.5 hectare, maximum), played a significant role in the agricultural sector by supplementing the output of the notoriously inefficient state and collective farms.