fundamental weakness

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandweakness

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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weakness
noun
uk
/ˈwiːk.nəs/us
/ˈwiːk.nəs/
the fact or state of not being strong ...
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(Definition offundamentalandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is afundamentalweaknessof this semantics.
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That is afundamentalweakness.
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That is theirfundamentalweakness.
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Thefundamentalweaknessstill remains.
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But the report has afundamentalweakness.
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Thefundamentalweaknessof the book is its failure to provide an integrating framework for the national articles.
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Regulation is anotherfundamentalweaknessin the railway regime.
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That is afundamentalweaknessin any system.
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We consider this to be a fairlyfundamentalweakness.
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This could be afundamentalweaknessin our economy.
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Is not that in fact quite afundamentalweakness?
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This was thefundamentalweaknessof their economic policy.
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This is thefundamentalweaknessof the subsidy.
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Previously, that was afundamentalweaknessin our industries.
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Let me explain why and thefundamentalweaknessin progress2work.
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The proposal betrays afundamentalweaknessin defence policy.
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To me, this is afundamentalweaknessin the scheme.
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That smacks of afundamentalweaknessin the process.
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That is afundamentalweaknessof this scheme.
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What are we to do to change thatfundamentalweakness?
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In my experience, organisations of this type fail through onefundamentalweakness.
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Anotherfundamentalweaknessis that there is no statutorily defined code of conduct.
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We believe that this is afundamentalweaknessin the tax itself.
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The concessions announced last week do not answer thefundamentalweaknessin the basic proposals.
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The necessity for them shows thefundamentalweaknessof the measure.
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