Sentence examples for grave defect from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, the report has one grave defect as a guide to intelligent municipal action on overhaul of New York's World War II rent control law.

The loya jirga offered Afghans a chance to overcome the grave defect of the interim administration Mr. Karzai has headed since talks in Bonn six months ago: control of the government by a former Northern Alliance clique of ethnic Tajiks from the thinly populated Panjshir Valley.

In his introduction, Simpson says that "…experimental biology in general and genetics in particular have the grave defect that they cannot reproduce the vast and complex horizontal extent of the natural environment and, particularly, the immense span of time in which population changes really occur.

Reserving decision, he said, "Whether the negotiators addressed these grave defects will have to be determined after reviewing the document".

The boy suffered a host of grave defects including a deformity of the right arm, kidney abnormalities and heart problems.

His grave defects as a commanding officer became apparent when Confederate general Robert E. Lee, with fewer than half the number of troops, outmaneuvered him and caused a Union retreat.

Putnam, who was close to the products, thought that the first-choice model had grave defects and so decided to demonstrate to the marketing staff both what the problems with the first one were and the superiority of another model.

For all its mixed-up character and its many grave defects and contradictions, the fact that South Africa is a country at all, and that its forward-looking constitution plays a central role in its life, is, I believe, one of the greatest stories of our times.

Sir Erskine May notes that "[the] reformed Parliament was, unquestionably, more liberal and progressive in its policy than the Parliaments of old; more vigorous and active; more susceptible to the influence of public opinion; and more secure in the confidence of the people", but admitted that "grave defects still remained to be considered".

Remarkably, almost all of these aberrations constituted grave defects, many corresponding to more than 10-fold reductions in mitotic performance.

There is a remedy for what is, in American eyes, football's gravest defect.