The principal drawback of this approach is the high rate of false positive or equivocal levels due to the imprecision of the currently available meters: both physician and patient need an accurate understanding of what a meter can and cannot do to avoid frustrating and inconclusive results.

George Prescott wrote: “ The principal drawback at present is the large size of the apparatus .”

The principal drawback to the blood knot is the dexterity required to tie it.

The principal drawback is that it can be considered crude or unhygienic – it litters railway lines and can produce health risks if the train is passing over a public waterway.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law -- and one of its principal aims.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

We had a couple of schools in this country, the principal one being on the Marshall Field estate out in Lloyd's Neck.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.

Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

The principal one gives a detailed statement that soon after the incident at Meribah, Aaron, with his son Eleazar and Moses, ascended Mount Hor.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.

Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).

Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha.

Adhemar ( also known as Adémar, Aimar, or Aelarz ) de Monteil ( died 1 August 1098 ), one of the principal figures of the First Crusade, was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

During the next century Aegina was one of the three principal states trading at the emporium of Naucratis, and it was the only state of European Greece that had a share in this factory.

The ecclesiastical Abbreviators were officials of the Holy See, among the principal officials of the Apostolic Chancery, which is one of the oldest and most important offices in the Roman Curia.

Naming the central ray passing through the entrance pupil the axis of the pencil or principal ray, it can be said: the rays of the pencil intersect, not in one point, but in two focal lines, which can be assumed to be at right angles to the principal ray ; of these, one lies in the plane containing the principal ray and the axis of the system, i. e. in the first principal section or meridional section, and the other at right angles to it, i. e. in the second principal section or sagittal section.

* The gel network stabilization represents the principal way to produce colloids stable to both aggregation and sedimentation.

... this epistle is the principal and most excellent part of the new testament, and most pure evangelion, that is to say glad tidings and what we call the gospel, and also a light and a way in unto the whole scripture ...

The use of flash-back structures continued to develop in this period, and the usual way of entering and leaving a flash-back was through a dissolve, and this was in fact the principal use at this time for this device.

The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity ( mauvaise foi, literally, " bad faith ") and an " authentic " way of " being " became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ) ( 1943 ).

The right-hand rule is one common way to relate the three principal directions.

The Noble Eightfold Path (, ) is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering ( dukkha ) and the achievement of self-awakening.

In this way he became acquainted with Isaac Beeckman, principal of Dordrecht school.

The gaff rig remained the principal rig found on small European yachts for centuries until giving way to the ' Bermudan sloop ' rig in the 1960s.

Although the F2 cars were good ( and Lauda's test-driving skills impressed March principal Robin Herd ), March's 1972 F1 season was catastrophic and Lauda, in despair and deep debt, briefly contemplated suicide but finally took out yet another bank loan to buy his way into the BRM team in 1973.

The principal drafter of this provision, Sir Geoffrey Harrison, explained that this article was not intended to approve the expulsions but to find a way to transfer the competence to the Control Council in Berlin so as to regulate the flow.

" Using offshore bank accounts, third-party agents and deceptive pricing practices, these companies AG, its subsidiaries and affiliates saw foreign bribery as a way of doing business ," said Mythili Raman, a principal deputy in the Justice Department ’ s criminal division.

The principal trainer acts as a facilitator who uses a high percentage of open questions to allow the participants to reflect critically on their own way of thinking, feeling, or behaving in a given context-usually involving a problem or desired outcome-and guiding participants to form the conclusion or an axiom / principle / belief through their own efforts, potentially highlighting dissonance, conflicts of thought and actions with questions for further discussion.

Gray argues that their problem is class consciousness: the working classes can act in a vulgar way, and the upper class can be silly ; but the middle class is or at least considers itself the moral backbone of society — a notion whose validity Coward did not really want to question or jeopardise, as the middle classes were Coward's principal audience.

Steve Smith refers to hermeneutics as the principal way of grounding a foundationalist yet postpositivist IR theory such as critical theory.

This transformation is defined in such a way that the first principal component has the largest possible variance ( that is, accounts for as much of the variability in the data as possible ), and each succeeding component in turn has the highest variance possible under the constraint that it be orthogonal to ( i. e., uncorrelated with ) the preceding components.

The principal distinction between the Filipino design and more primitive yo-yos is in the way the yo-yo is strung.

In addition to the infliction of pain, one of the principal purposes of the flogging was to humiliate the offender in front of his mates and to demonstrate, in a forceful way, that he had been required to submit to authority.

... Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way forward is to begin the phased redeployment of our forces in the next four to six months, while shifting the principal mission of our forces there from combat to training, logistics, force protection and counter-terror.

As the principal founding father of Czechoslovakia, Masaryk was regarded similar to the way George Washington is regarded in the United States.

A principal objection to the 2SH is that it requires a hypothetical document, Q, the existence of which is not attested in any way, either by existing fragments ( and a great many fragments of early Christian documents do exist ) or by early Church tradition.

Another simple and intuitive way to derive the future value of an annuity is to consider an endowment, whose interest is paid as the annuity, and whose principal remains constant.

Carving its way southwest across the Colorado Plateau, the Colorado forms Cataract Canyon and other gorges and receives its principal tributary, the Green River, before flowing into Lake Powell, a reservoir formed by the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona nearly downstream.

Spoke nipples are typically T-shaped in cross section, with an internal thread running part of the way through the hole that runs along the spoke nipple's principal axis.