greatest weakness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandweakness
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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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 ofgreatandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The book's greatest strength is also itsgreatestweakness.
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Indeed, in a broader context, this omission signals thegreatestweaknessof an otherwise excellent book.
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That is itsgreatestweakness.
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The new clause'sgreatestweaknessis this.
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Thegreatestweaknessof unbounded rationality is that it does not describe the way real people think.
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Whatever the source of the advocates' passion to help others, it constitutes both their greatest strength and theirgreatestweakness.
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That is its greatest strength, but also itsgreatestweakness.
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Thegreatestweaknessof the community charge is its collectability.
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I now come to thegreatestweaknessin the referendum.
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That is thegreatestweaknessof the present tripartite system.
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Its greatest strength, however, is also itsgreatestweakness: it is difficult to imagine a finding in the action-perception literature that the theory couldn't accommodate.
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Ironically, the attempt to address the dynamics of the contemporary women's movement in 250 pages, one of the book's greatest strengths, is also itsgreatestweakness.
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This is where any attraction towards indirect taxation faces itsgreatestweakness.
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In many cases thegreatestweaknessis middle and lower management.
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It is no use pumping public money into an industry unless itsgreatestweaknessis remedied.
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Thegreatestweakness, however, is the tendency to pump ever more resources into the south-east.
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But probably thegreatestweaknessof our industrial set-up is bad industrial relations.
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Believing that to be the greatest enemy, where then is thegreatestweaknessin that enemy?
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And it is in relation to these coordination problems that thegreatestweaknesslies.
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During the whole post-war period, that was ourgreatestweakness.
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Ourgreatestweaknessis still our lateness in delivery, our falling down on our promises.
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And that's his greatest strength and maybe hisgreatestweakness.
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Arguably, theirgreatestweakness, however, is not physical but mental.
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The first and possibly thegreatestweaknessin the case for irradiation is the fact that there is no test.
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Theirgreatestweaknessis that they do not have power at present to subpoena and call witnesses before them.
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