inherent weakness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinherentandweakness
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inherent
adjective
uk/ɪnˈher.ənt/us/ɪnˈhɪr.ənt/
existing as a natural or basic part ...
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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 ofinherentandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In turn this illustrates theinherentweaknessof the moderates.
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It reveals aninherentweaknessof pairing.
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Thisinherentweaknessis nothing new.
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It may be aninherentweakness.
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Without it the whole fabric would display considerableinherentweakness.
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There is anotherinherentweaknessin the argument.
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I turn to the secondinherentweaknessin the proposals.
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Such schemes of security are effective and widely used, but there is aninherentweaknessfor distributed and pervasive environments: primarily, their lack of robustness.
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I want to say once more that that intangibility is a kind ofinherentweakness.
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This major advance puts right aninherentweaknessin current arrangements.
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The thirdinherentweaknessin the proposals is that practical difficulties are ignored.
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Before 1914, the vast accumulation of foreign assets hid from us thisinherentweakness.
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Is not the fact that police investigate police aninherentweaknessin the scheme?
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A furtherinherentweaknessin nationalised industries is undoubtedly in the area of industrial relations.
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They have therefore theinherentweaknessof being subject less to effective financial sanctions.
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Theinherentweaknessof capital punishment is that miscarriages of justice cannot be corrected.
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I shall come to theinherentweaknessof such a system later.
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That is not because of aninherentweaknessor managerial inefficiency.
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I referred to theinherentweaknessin the system and the political stagnation which resulted.
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It demonstrates theinherentweaknessof the law and the need for change.
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There is noinherentweaknessin the relationship between votes cast and seats won in local elections.
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First, there is emotional instability; that is,inherentweaknessof personality, associated with various degrees of subjective symptoms.
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I believe that thisinherentweaknessis likely to be perpetuated in the new structure through inadequate resource provision.
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Aninherentweaknessof this arrangement was that it could fail in an unsafe state.
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However, all these improvements could not remedy theinherentweaknessof the existing high-explosive shell.
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