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Seeking to explain the UK's underperformance further, it adds: Weak export performance and productivity could be driven by infrastructure weaknesses and difficult access to bank finance, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), holding back the emergence of new firms and high-skilled jobs".
Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven't panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy's sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that's been constructed so far doesn't have any major weaknesses in it at all.
Ashcroft found the weaknesses of the party leaders as voters drew laughable comparisons.
The Treasury said this would identify what needed to be done to alleviate long-running weaknesses in areas such as transport, broadband, planning, skills, ownership, childcare, red-tape, science and innovation.
Internal NHS documents obtained by the Guardian show that those three organisations have known about scores of failings and weaknesses in the safety and quality of patient care, at Broomfield in particular, and tried to stop them happening again.
You may have structural weaknesses , loose ends, stilted scenes, characters who shouldn't be there and some that are missing, thematic inconsistencies or problems you can't even identify but which stop you from moving forward.
"Wales have a number of strengths and finding weaknesses can be difficult," said Schmidt.
The section concludes that if the monitor's discoveries of where HSBC struggled to track its clients were made public, the information could be "used as a road map by criminal actors to exploit compliance weaknesses at HSBC and other banks".
He added that his sole objective this weekend was to mend some weaknesses he had perceived in his driving at this circuit.
Instead of focusing on what the data says an "average" child should achieve, and driving an entire class towards that goal, the smaller class sizes and more relaxed approach to progress in special schools means teachers can respond to the needs of each child, based on individual strengths and weaknesses.
Like a mutating parasite, tobacco companies respond to public health efforts by exploiting weaknesses and compromising the global response.
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The primary grammatical function of "weaknesses" is that of a plural noun . It typically acts as the subject or object of a sentence, denoting multiple instances of a lack of strength or areas needing improvement. Ludwig AI confirms this usage through numerous examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
