Sentence examples for flaw- from inspiring English sources

Gifted footballer though he is, the Frenchman has again demonstrated the fatal flaw in his temperament which eventually saw him quit league football in France after a series of run-ins with the authorities.

He said the crisis had exposed a flaw in international governance, with any one of the security council's five permanent members able to veto a decision.

Anne Treneman in the Times saw the launch as "a strange theatrical set piece" and pointed to a flaw in the central actor's performance.

Entertaining they may have been, especially to the neutral, but the major flaw in the system was that a team could finish in the last play-off place and be promoted at the expense of a club that had finished a significant distance ahead of them.

Her resignation is a reminder that so many of Cameron's problems, whether on policy or party management, flow from the same flaw.

Christopher Soghoian, a senior policy analyst studying technological surveillance at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the relationship between the tech giants and the NSA has a fundamental – and ironic – flaw that guarantees the Prism scandal is unlikely to be the last time tensions surface between the two.

Unfortunately, if he has a flaw, it's a weakness for a damsel in distress, and the more he comes round to Denton's point of view, the more I fear that she's pulling the wool over his eyes.

It was terrific, apart from one design flaw: hot air and kitchen smells rise into the upper bedroom level.

And in the tumult of the past year – whether from faith- and fear-based state laws that even our most backward southern neighbors won't enact, or the unrest and police violence in the streets of Ferguson – that character flaw was laid bare.

"That is a fundamental flaw as well because David Cameron had to prove that we would fail in government.

Superstorm Sandy damaged the building's $10.6m £6.8mm) clean-power sources – those world-class fuel cells – a third of which went unrepaired and unreplaced because of a costly flaw in the main tower's design and pressure to honour a billion-dollar deal with Condé Nast, the global publisher and the building's anchor tenant.