One of Goodell's great flaws as a commissioner is his habit of ruling by public relations, overreacting to the biggest cases by delivering outrageous sanctions that don't fit the crime.
It is this clawback of means-tested benefits with the earning of income that is possibly the single greatest flaw of all targeted assistance, and also the single most ignored detail when people defend the current system over the introduction of a basic income that would replace it.
The greatest flaw of the revolution, however, was its ultimate creation of a theocratic, allegedly Islamic, state.
Bobby Fischer might have hated America (and, apparently, so much more), but whether greatness was achieved in spite of or because of great flaws almost seems beside the point.
They're a team of four, mostly ex-advertising, who spotted the great flaw at the heart of the digital economy: namely, that the people with power don't have much of a clue what the people with the technical expertise are actually on about.
This soldier's assessment of the role Saddam Hussein played in the great scheme of things is central to exposing one of the Iraq War's great flaws: having assuming the responsibility of "steam control," we can see just how badly Hussein was hogtied and hamstrung in maintaining his own power, and how little capability he had where posing an imminent threat to the United States is concerned.
This has proved the great flaw in the doctrines of liberal interventionism and neoconservatism.
Mr. Braizat's point zeroes in on what could turn out to be the great flaw in the plans of both cities.
One great flaw in the picture of the empire as one single civilization by 212, triumphantly unified in culture as in its political form, has already been pointed out: what was achieved within the cities' walls did not extend with any completeness to the rural population, among whom local ways and native languages persisted.
This is political history as a chronicle of great, flawed individuals and of the world that they make.
The great flaw in the adversarial model of employees versus management was that it relied on intimidation, brinksmanship and actions that could be destructive to everyone's interests.
