The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.
Quotes about irregularity (11 Quotes)
Romanticism may not inaccurately be described as a conviction that the world is an Englischer Garten on a grand scale. The God of the seventeenth century, like its gardeners, always geometrized the God of Romanticism was one in whose universe things grew wild and without trimming and in all the rich diversity of their natural shapes. The preference for irregularity, the aversion from that which is wholly intellectualized ... which were eventually to invade the intellectual life of Europe at all points, made their first modern appearance on a grand scale in the eighteenth century in the form of the new fashion in pleasure gardens.
We're getting some very good spending going into the first quarter. It's interesting that while there is spending optimism, consumers are still clearly divided into two main categories -- those with lots of money and those that are hurting. That's why these monthly results have shown so much irregularity.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
After every administration, there are some answer sheets that get pulled aside, typically because of testing irregularity.
We don't anticipate any disruption in travel plans. We will fly a full schedule. Normal ticket rules will be in place. If there is a (flight) irregularity, we'll handle it just like we handle it now. It'll be business as usual.