But the argument is flawed if you assume house prices will continue to rise, as the minimum amount you are required to pay will also go up.
It reminded Ms. Gallagher of the young man who showed up with a magnet and a marble to see a century-old house: "I don't remember what the magnet was for, but he told me he brought the marble to test the floors: if it rolled at all, it meant the house was flawed".
Judge Bates, appointed to the bench a year ago by President Bush, said that Mr. Walker had suffered no "personal, concrete and particularized injury" and that the institutional claim he made on behalf of Congress was flawed because neither a house of Congress nor any Congressional committee had sought the records.
And in his hands, the sensational, while still sensational, is grounded in an authenticity that lends a haunting pathos to what emerges as a kind of art-house thriller, flawed but gripping.
The indoor environment in many single-family houses is flawed.
The housing minister said the report was "factually flawed" and failed to take housing benefit into account.
Once you view people in social housing, or those who are homeless or living in poor quality housing, as intrinsically flawed, it's easier not to treat them as people.
He said any development at Kings Park that failed to provide such housing would be flawed.
The Hogwarts status quo has its flaws (see: house elf liberation, Purebloods pitting themselves against Muggle-borns) but at a basic level, our main characters want to stay inside its walls and preserve its way of life, not go out seeking something that might change everything.
It is not just that ratings agencies are incompetent, made wrong assumptions about the housing market and used flawed models to evaluate mortgage-backed securities.
