"his drawback" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a negative aspect or limitation that a person has. An example of using this phrase in a sentence could be: "John was a skilled athlete, but his drawback was his lack of patience and often gave up easily when faced with challenges." Here, "his drawback" refers to John's weakness or flaw that hindered his success as an athlete.
His drawback is that he has almost no base within his own party.None of these three, however, will be able to transform the party's prospects at the parliamentary election.
His drawback is that he is another microeconomist in an administration with no prominent macroeconomist since Ms Romer and Larry Summers left.Still, CEA chairmen exercise influence not through their academic background but their ability to get the president's ear.
It was perhaps inevitable, then, that one day Mr. Darabont would turn his attention to that master of manipulation, Capra, although as models go he is not without his drawbacks.
Tzvi Gal-Chen has his drawbacks: for one thing, he appears to be dead; for another, the "fake" Rema may be impersonating him; but at least he's accessible by e-mail.
"Andy's got his drawbacks," Richard commented to me on the phone before I came.
His main drawback is his aloofness.
His main drawback was his principled insistence on sleeping with other women.
His first drawback was his shape, which led to nicknames at school.
His biggest drawback may be his accent — he can make an off-the-cuff impolitic crack in idiomatic English, but then has to go through the agony of repeating it three times to be understood.
When Rick A. Lazio, the Long Island congressman, first began mulling a bid for the United States Senate last year, his biggest drawback was perceived as his lack of name recognition in a race that was fast becoming defined by celebrity and star quality.
He finds this facility to be both his best asset and his biggest drawback, because he continually feels that he's "snowed everybody" and that one day he'll be unmasked as a fraud.
