"I do suspect flaws," said Harry Walsh, a superior court judge in Ventura, Calif.
But Lawrence H. Silverman, a member of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the railroad, said he suspected that design flaws, like the excess weight of the new locomotives, had contributed to the development of the cracks.
It was their intuition that helped them ascend — their ability to suspect a flaw even when data appeared correct, to read the mood of customers and employees, and to sense potential in a product others disdained.
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced yesterday an investigation into a company suspected of selling flawed bulletproof vests to law enforcement officials.
By 1982, serious flaws were suspected in our understanding of the transmission of light through stellar atmospheres, resulting in major discrepancies in stellar mass estimates.
Re "A Serious Design Flaw Is Suspected in State Tests" ("Inside the Numbers" series, national edition pages in Texas, July 29): Walter Stroup of the University of Texas at Austin claims that statewide tests in Texas are fundamentally flawed because of the use of a statistical methodology called item response theory.
These types of studies are also included to evaluate benefits where trial evidence flaws are known or suspected (e.g., trial evidence includes such narrowly defined populations, outcome measures, or interventions and controls that it has limited usefulness).
That capacity need not be wasted on bad shots; users can delete a picture if they suspect it is flawed, creating room for retakes.
Those were contributory factors, but I suspect the real flaw was something more fundamental - the voters were never persuaded they needed an elected police and crime commissioner.
And they often have the effect of making us think that all politicians are deeply flawed, suspect human beings, and there's little we can do to effect change--the exact opposite message of Obama and his candidacy.
Despite its apparent stylishness and superior tailoring, Mr. Coleman, a lawyer, suspected that the suit had one major flaw.
