That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).
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Last month the Commons Education Select Committee issued a damning report into the plans, which it described as a "red light" warning over the changes.
However inconclusive the e-mails may be, the leak may have wider implications for Anonymous as it gradually proves itself a source of comeuppance for disgruntled employees with damning information about a company or institution.
In a damning report the MoD said its own officials failed to respond to a fax sent by the Department of Health, warning them against vaccines taken by British troops to protect them against biological and chemical weapons.
Joe Calzaghe, who fights Jones Jr on Saturday evening in New York, issued a damning verdict.
The Facebook-IPO saga continued on Thursday, with Citigroup releasing a damning letter of Nasdaq.
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For editors, publishers and - not least - newspaper proprietors, this is a damning report.
The Prisoner Ombudsman Pauline McCabe published a damning report on the regime in the wake of the death.
It is, above all, a damning indictment of ineffectual and indifferent school officials.
The release of the single came after a damning report into the handling of the crowd crush at Hillsborough Stadium.
The election outcome is crucial to the eurozone's austerity agenda and "it's going to be a damning verdict, " says Spiro.
Last week, the state's Legislative Analyst's Office came out with a damning indictment of the project's unrealistic cost estimates and poor management.
Awema was wound up in February after a damning report by the Welsh government's own internal audit service exposed "significant and fundamental failures".
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Women in high-flying jobs earn almost half a million pounds less in their lives than men with identical careers, a damning report reveals today.
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Both men were criticised in a damning report into HBOS' downfall.
Sellafield nuclear plant bosses have been condemned as throwing the industry's future "into doubt", in the light of a damning report into its safety standards.
The former federal conservative government launched the exercise five years ago, in response to a damning report on child and alcohol abuse in some communities.
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The announcements came in the wake of a damning nine-page report, released Tuesday by the board, which is part of the state's Department of Public Health.
That stripping came after a damning report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency accused Armstrong and his team of the "most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program" in cycling history.
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That was before the 43-year-old was accused of bullying by five members of staff, complaints which were upheld in a damning report by the former law lord, Lord Griffiths.
The 12-page article in current affairs magazine Stern, which sells around one million copies a week, paints a damning portrait of modern Britain under the title of The English Patient.
Following a damning report by the Welsh Audit Office, Carl Sargeant said that he had no option but to take drastic action and take over the running of the council.
The committee hearing was held on 2 December 2009 following a damning report over the summer by the National Audit Office (NAO), who refused to sign off the commission's accounts.
Mr. Taylor wrote that France risks losing all of its industrial business and told a damning tale of the company's efforts to buy the tire plant in the northern town of Amiens.
It led to a damning report from the higher education watchdog, the QAA, which found serious shortcomings in the way UoW approved other colleges to teach and design courses for its degrees.
The release of the single came after a damning report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel into the handling of the crowd crush at the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
The other big message is about the marketing and international branding of Wales and in one line it says there is a perception of Wales being closed for business and that's a damning assessment.
Additionally, it marks the second time this week that Intel has indirectly slighted Microsoft, the first one being a damning analysis of Windows 8 on ARM by fellow Intel SVP Renee James.
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"Her original verdict was so terribly flawed by prosecutorial overreaching, " the lawyer said, noting that the appellate court that overturned the original conviction detailed those flaws in a damning report more than 100 pages in length.
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