The phrase
"fundamental problem" refers to a main or underlying issue that needs to be addressed before solving other related problems. It is the central obstacle or challenge that must be resolved in order to achieve desired outcomes or solve complex issues.
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But there's an even more
fundamental problem with corporate bond ETFs, which stems from the way their indexes are constructed.
Environmental risks and poverty are
fundamental problems for almost every part of business operations, from storing data to manufacturing laundry detergent to growing tea.
She is excited by his excitement that being dean puts him in a position, as being a law professor has not often done, to help
solve fundamental problems in education.
But the
most fundamental problem with restaurant profitability is a lack of pricing power because there are too many restaurants.
Libraries have two
fundamental problems here: they have less control over the situation than publishers do, and they are about to get some serious competition from the private sector.
A third
fundamental problem arises from the way mainstream development thinking views wealth creation, particularly at the grassroots level.
There is an additional and more
fundamental problem inherent in applying a similarly situated test to an accommodation case, because the similarly situated test is rooted in formal equality.
The
deep fundamental problems of human life are really neither intellectual nor technical; they are always in the last resort problems of human relationship.
This
rather fundamental problem throws into some doubt the instrument record of the northern hemisphere — the basis for arguments that humans are influencing the climate.
While nominal prices typically don't matter, once stocks start to dip below $ 10 per share, you often find
significant fundamental problems and weaker expansion prospects.
Ultimately, current reform efforts only target litigation abuse and ignore the more
fundamental problem of the flood of low - quality software patents.
There is, however, a more
fundamental problem in the content business that few start - ups have been bold enough to try to solve: actually creating the content.
A
more fundamental problem with this exhibition is that it can't decide whether it's about art history or social history.
The
second fundamental problem is that the billable hour focuses only on the lawyer's «inputs» rather than the value the client is getting from the services.
Equipped with a first - class mind, he disciplined it to penetrating thought
on fundamental problems of the Christian faith.
This double foundation enables Whitehead to solve certain
fundamental problems which, according to Collingwood, remain unsolved for Alexander.
Instead of
fixing fundamental problems with the model, the modelers were allowing it to over-tune, with parameters taking on unrealistic values.
The coalition government will not solve Britain's
fundamental problems because of its ideological divide, Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg has warned.
Besides disruption and automation, the more
fundamental problem affecting the IT industry is the lack of real skills amongst most of India's engineering graduates, they clearly don't have ready skills that make them employable.
Now here we strike one of the
really fundamental problems of the way of love, a problem of which not every clergyman and minister appears to be aware.
In this a splendidly lucid and wide - ranging account of our scientific ignorance, Maddox revels in
highlighting fundamental problems that don't appear to be readily soluble in terms of the science we already know.
In a new article in Yale Environment 360, renowned environmental writer Richard Conniff
identifies fundamental problems facing the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification group.
I have had my share of defending and ridiculing him in the past, when he does well I recognize this and applaud him, but there is
still fundamental problem within our team that after years and years of this broken record I think it has become painfully obvious we need a new manager with a different mindset, because as far as I'm concerned our players have adopted Wenger's mentality and attitude.
Or do research on
fundamental problems like the origin of life on Earth, the existence of life in other parts of the universe, or the future of life in space?
Phrases with «fundamental problem»