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were vulnerabilities
noun
Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
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Still, a 2009 report by the Government Accountability Office found that there were "vulnerabilities in the security system used by the I.R.S. to protect taxpayer data".
Mr. Gates was not in Baghdad "to point out any flaws" in Iraqi security in the wake of the bombings, Pentagon officials said, although Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., the second-ranking American commanding general in Iraq, told reporters that "there were vulnerabilities that were exposed by the terrorists, obviously".
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Sure, there are vulnerabilities.
"We recognise that there are vulnerabilities in infrastructure," he said.
And even when it is turned on, there are vulnerabilities".
"There could be vulnerabilities and infirmities to take into account".
The cost of that view is vulnerability.
For Reeves, it is vulnerability.
Still, there's vulnerability under the candied shell.
There is going to be vulnerability, that is just a fact of life".
Beneath the toughness there was vulnerability.
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