And second, it failed to maintain a backup filing system to protect its crucial documents against sabotage.

He also identified another reason the crucial document went unnoticed, a reason perhaps characteristic of military culture.

The Council draws up crucial documents defining conceptual approaches to national security.

Yet it ought to be regarded as one of the crucial documents of the present crisis.

We submitted what we considered to be the most crucial documents of the movement's history.

However, Patterson's lawyers say that "extensive searches" have failed to locate the crucial document.

Mr. Stevenson showed that prosecutors had hidden crucial documents from the defense.

But there are also troubling aspects of this crucial document, which will go before a constitutional convention next month for ratification.

The Consensus is a crucial document for all of us.

There were three main provisions in this crucial document.