serious weakness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandweakness
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ofseriousandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is theseriousweaknessof the package.
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At the same time, their analyses suffer from aseriousweakness.
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That is aseriousweakness.
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I consider that aseriousweakness.
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This is a veryseriousweakness.
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There is aseriousweaknesscoming.
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But this is aseriousweakness.
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This seems to be a mostseriousweakness.
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That is aseriousweaknessin the clause.
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That was aseriousweaknessin the proposals.
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That is aseriousweaknessof the proposed organisation.
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It indicatesseriousweaknesson the marketing side.
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That is anotherseriousweaknessin these papers.
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That is aseriousweaknessin the system.
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Aseriousweaknessof existing models is that each of them deals with few common characteristics found across a number of specific applications.
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I think that if a theory of rights implies that infants do not have rights, then that theory has aseriousweakness.
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That men (and speakers in general) are assumed to be so one-dimensional and without agency is aseriousweaknessof the book's analyses.
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A moreseriousweaknessis that all the chapters rely unduly on newspaper articles and popular magazines, and citations of peer-reviewed periodical literature are very few.
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But, there are indications that the conventional model exaggerates the marginal abatement cost at high levels of abatement which is obviously aseriousweaknessof the model.
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I have always felt that it provided aseriousweaknessin our ports system.
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The mostseriousweaknessof centralised buying relates, first, to quality and, secondly, to price.
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First, we are still in a position ofseriousweaknessas regards liquid debt.
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It seems that there is aseriousweaknessin the law here.
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The lack of control over that machinery of propaganda is aseriousweakness.
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