But there was also a crucial flaw that Mr. Kennedy could have prevented: he started too late.

Let's put it to the duke and the earl marshal, to make certain we haven't overlooked some crucial flaw in the plan.

And there is still another crucial flaw.

Asking for Infinity As revealed by American cryptologists last week, the Russians' crucial flaw was much more trivial.

There is a crucial flaw in it.

There is no actual contradiction, as these arguments have a crucial flaw that makes them incorrect.

The book suffers from crucial flaws.

Although it pointed to a crucial flaw in Popper's argument, its full implication was not understood.

A crucial flaw in Mr. Blumenthal's strategy, analysts agreed, was that the open-systems computer market has turned out to be a low margin business.

"The crucial flaw in the process," he told the board, "is the disregard of the collective intelligence of the faculty."