fundamental flaw

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandflaw

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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flaw
noun[C]
uk
/flɔː/us
/flɑː/
a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made, or that causes something not to ...
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(Definition offundamentalandflawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These findings suggest afundamentalflawin reduced-form inventory models where stocks are loosely rationalized by this motive.
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But this is not afundamentalflawin the approach, only a problem in the technical difficulties of the implementations.
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There could hardly be a clearer illustration of thefundamentalflawof hereditary absolutism.
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There was, it seemed to us, afundamentalflawhere.
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The problem is that this explanation is an attempt to repair afundamentalflawin the idea.
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Yet this seemed to present the diametric opposite of the opportunism of the islands, exacerbating the redundancy of the flagstone wall - afundamentalflawin our seemingly simple idea.
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Neither book fully distinguishes between sexuality and intimacy but this remains afundamentalflawin much of the existing literature and is a discussion that requires elaboration.
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The reason why we must discard all of the formal apparatus is afundamentalflawin the use of the basic method of empirical syntactic argumentation used in linguistics.
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This constitutes afundamentalflawin his philosophy of religion : he both appealed to and yet contradicted the use of religious language by devout religious people.
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These weaknesses raise questions about the openness of debate, which it is held to have fostered, and expose afundamentalflawin the ' managerial revolution ' it sought to initiate.
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The full implications of thisfundamentalflaware now obvious, and can no longer be brushed under the carpet.
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That is afundamentalflawin the whole procedure.
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Afundamentalflawin his analysis leads us to conclude that the rapporteur's conclusions are wrong.
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The onefundamentalflawis that such evidence is too partisan, and that is the crux of the matter.
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That is afundamentalflawin the present arrangements.
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Onefundamentalflawconcerns the concentration on data used for automatic processing at the expense of data held on manual systems, which is totally ignored.
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That is afundamentalflawin the way in which the commission acts.
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This is thefundamentalflawof the present system.
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That is obviously afundamentalflawin the system.
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The lack of such management was thefundamentalflawbefore we brought in the purchaser-provider split.
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