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"fatal flaw" is a mistake or weakness that leads to a disastrous outcome or failure.
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I've been struggling though, because it seems as if all of them have some significant, but
not fatal flaw.
As a currency and asset class, bitcoin has
potentially fatal flaws — which is why we believe it's a matter of when, not if, the bitcoin bubble will pop.
She did a good a job of capturing the sentiments of the child - centered parenting movement, and in so doing laid open its
many fatal flaws.
A mighty and expensive force with a
single fatal flaw isn't the hero of the story; it's the Death Star.
Despite this
seemingly fatal flaw, the game also manages to be wonderfully entertaining from start to finish, alone or with friends, around one PC or through many online.
Is so, you're like many couples who want to make sure they are on the right track and free from problems that could turn into
fatal flaws down the road.
One
fatal flaw of an income - driven repayment plan is what happens after the predetermined payment period.
Tunnel vision and not gathering user feedback are
fatal flaws for most startups.
But where his other movies were solid with a major flaw in one part or another — «Unbreakable» had a great ending, but took too long to get there, while «Signs» had a great setup and a terrible ending — «The Village» suffers from the
most fatal flaw of all: It assumes that the audience just isn't that bright.
But most important for the voyeur with a camera is the array of fascinating hand gestures: fingers flipping at a frantic pace through stacks of dusty, cat - clawed albums, or, most beautiful of all, the pivot of the vinyl disk held in suspension between palm and fingertips to catch the light and
reveal fatal flaws.»
Even after Liam's death, Simplicity and the Consumer Product Safety Commission failed to tell parents across the country
about fatal flaws with Simplicity cribs.
«I think its creation
contains fatal flaws, and the flaws really stem from a lack of independence and a requirement that it operates in secret.
It's been the Celtics»
fatal flaw throughout the season and it was always going to be a problem during the playoffs.
Just recently I ventured back into the shady and delightful world of PC gaming, having been away for some considerable time due to a simple
yet fatal flaw keeping me away from it: -LSB-...]
Amid the aftermath of the failed Times Square terrorist attack and the lethal floods in Tennessee — not to mention the president finally noticing there is a deep water drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing for Democrats to attempt to gloss over
fatal flaws exposed in global warming «consensus science» by the Climategate scandal.
Robert Philpot, in his Progress article on the rise and potential fall of the Lib Dems points out the
possibly fatal flaw that any rump of Lib Dems left is likely to be a very disparate bunch ranging from David Laws to Tim Farron.
(Dougherty, 2012, p. 212) This
second fatal flaw became fatal because bussing never addressed this underlying issue of social class consciousness.
Despite his success, Davis noticed a
few fatal flaws that he thinks could carry implications for the entire start - up community.
Significant development dollars are invested early in the process to thoroughly screen projects for
potential fatal flaws that would impede viability and cost competitiveness.
That movie, about badass angels fightin» in the zombie apocalypse so Jesus II can be born, or something, was — entirely apart from its many
other fatal flaws — an insult to religion.
Is it that you had better already BE an accepted part of the climate science group, writing a pre-acceptable scientific work
without fatal flaws, in order for you to get to the peer - review stage... or else be «forced» to publish in periodicals that are going to be continuously disparaged as the «gray literature» by those same climate scientists?
With a much more refined sound and comfortable fit than the Jabra Elite, you'd think these would be a bit further up the list but, for me at least, they have a
rather fatal flaw.
These otherwise brilliant characters most often are felled by their
own fatal flaws.
The
final fatal flaw to overcome as a trader is a Lack of Money Management, and this topic deserves more than just a few paragraphs, because money management encompasses risk / reward analysis, probability of success and failure, protective stops and so much more.
The film also lacks a memorable villain who we can root against and this is a
near fatal flaw the film just about overcomes.
Red Pillar, LLC also included a block of instruction about the mechanics of petition preparation and how to
avoid fatal flaws many candidates experience causing them to fail to get on the ballot.
Arnie Gundersen, a former nuclear industry executive and chief engineer of Fairewinds Associates, an energy consulting company, stepped forward to spotlight what he sees as a
possible fatal flaw in the AP1000's design: the separation of the concrete shield building from the steel containment vessel.
The picture's
fatal flaw rests in the fact that it essentially consists of a series of vaguely - familiar, poorly - executed skits shamelessly lifted from other comedies and revolving around Viagra, condoms and other prurient themes.
In Mr. Right Kendrick for the «perfect» guy, who happens to have a
very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
All of this ignores the
truly fatal flaw of Amrein and Berliner's methods: their point of comparison.
The litany of fake
news fatal flaws of the carbon - fiber wheel is not quite endless, but it's certainly extensive.
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