In the grossest failures, the review found, some officers disregarded women who complained that they had been attacked.

"The report lays bare the gross failures of the regulatory regime devised and driven by the shadow chancellor and his party," he said.

It would be a gross failure on the commission's part should it miss this opportunity to divert development from wetlands to brownfields.

What a gross failure to anticipate, and to act.

Their public suffering symbolizes a gross failure of policy and insults the civility of their communities.

"The naked, simple fact is that the death penalty has been a gross failure," he wrote.

The result, he said, was "gross catastrophic failure."

Ceauşescu himself knew the cynical and cringing apologetics of those managers who were caught out for gross failure to follow the plan.

Tichenor stated that the name was chosen "to palliate their gross failure."

"The death penalty has been a gross failure," Governor Brown wrote.