A list of the cases in which Congress have been betrayed, or forced by the
defects of the Confederation, into violations of their chartered authorities, would not a little surprise those who have paid no attention to the subject; and would be no inconsiderable argument in favor of the new Constitution, which seems to have provided no less studiously for the lesser, than the more obvious and striking
defects of the old.
Money and fine clothes could not mend these
defects or cover them up; they only made them more glaring and the more pathetic.
Everyone had some
defect, of body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body and warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or a craving for liquor.
By these considerations I was induced to seek some other method which would comprise the advantages of the three and be exempt from their defects. And as a multitude of laws often only hampers justice, so that a state is best governed when, with few laws, these are rigidly administered; in like manner, instead of the great number of precepts of which logic is composed, I believed that the four following would prove perfectly sufficient for me, provided I took the firm and unwavering resolution never in a single instance to fail in observing them.
In this way I believed that I could borrow all that was best both in geometrical analysis and in algebra, and correct all the defects of the one by help of the other.
It is true, as has been before observed that facts, too stubborn to be resisted, have produced a species of general assent to the abstract proposition that there exist material
defects in our national system; but the usefulness of the concession, on the part of the old adversaries of federal measures, is destroyed by a strenuous opposition to a remedy, upon the only principles that can give it a chance of success.
The most common cause of intraoral
defect was because of excisions of malignant tumors of oral mucosa and salivary glands.
Fannie Mae's taxonomy is fairly straightforward and is designed to communicate to Fannie Mae if a
defect makes a loan ineligible for sale.
These diamonds contained a particular
defect that can be manipulated using light and microwaves.
In an effort to develop the
defect classification taxonomy this paper reports the initial effort of conducting a survey to establish the types of
defect that exist and to recognize the occurrence of the
defects in the documents.
IN A PERFECT world, design and manufacturing teams work together to minimize
defect opportunities prior to releasing a PCB assembly into production.