basic fault

No one could find a basic fault with the plan.

Despite the yeoman effort that went into this book, it has basic faults.

Even where there is a trained video technician on the staff it's a good idea to train others to check for basic faults.

He saw in their logic the basic fault.

"The basic fault is that people don't realise that the cumulative amount can be a lot.

The basic fault line between the weapons inspectors and the Iraqi government was starkly evident in the general's remarks.

Basic fault models in digital circuits include:

On the whole, one feels that the basic fault with Fahim Burney's direction lies in his treatment of the film as a bold television play.

Or had there been a basic fault in selecting the Lopers as the type of life best fitted for existence on the surface of the planet?

SPB identified four points as the basic faults of the so-called communist parties of Bangladesh.

Firestone introduced strict quality control measures in an attempt to fix the inherent problems, however they were not successful in totally eliminating the basic faults.

We have voted against the Mayer report as we feel that the basic fault lay with the EU Agriculture Policy itself.

"Fletcher glorifies chaste womanhood in a Spenser-like faery atmosphere...The play is an esthetic, not a moral failure, with lack of plot as its basic fault."

A multimeter can be a hand-held device useful for basic fault finding and field service work, or a bench instrument which can measure to a very high degree of accuracy.

It has been suggested that 'in pathology, Winnicott's distinction between "true and false selves" corresponds to Balint's "basic fault" and to Fairbairn's "compromised ego"'.

It is as important to be ruthlessly clear about the underlying causes of success as it is to be analytical about the basic faults which have led to failure.

I think the basic fault that underlies the problem of stuckness is traditional rationality's insistence upon "objectivity," a doctrine that there is a divided reality of subject and object.

This changed however, from Brezhnev's accession and Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure as leader, the Soviet health care system was heavily criticised for many basic faults, such as the quality of service and the unevenness in its provision.

In short, the debate touches on some of the basic fault lines between the parties, the Republicans' faith in the virtues of tax cuts and an unfettered private marketplace and the Democrats' trust in the government as an instrument of social equity.

On that basis, Balint thereafter explored the idea of what he called '"the basic fault": this was that there was often the experience in the early two-person relationship that something was wrong or missing, and this carried over into the Oedipal period (age 2-5)'.

After all, the same book that prompted a phenomenal surge of enthusiasm now seems to embody all the basic faults of utopian fiction as a genre: the flatness of tone, the static quality of a diorama, the light coating of sentimentality in the place where human personality ought to be.

The Dayton agreement has at least one basic fault: blind insistence that the people who started and carried out the bloodiest war in Europe since the end of World War II in order to separate, now somehow want to be together because their leaders signed a piece of paper under duress from the big powers.