"But one of the things that sets America apart from many other nations, one of the things that makes us exceptional, is our willingness to confront squarely our imperfections and to learn from our mistakes".
Theirs, then, is an unlikely mix of old and new and, while every single track on their debut album is beautifully constructed and impossible to dislike, it lacks the imperfections that excite".
In all the reports, problems and imperfections of the EU's role were cited, but at no point did they suggest withdrawal might be preferable or in the national interest.
These imperfections aside, I made a dramatic and almost total reduction in my consumption of new clothes in 2010.
But its size (only 129 MSPs, compared with the 659 MPs in London) and informality underline the imperfections of Westminster, which is much loved by older inmates but reeks to newcomers of boiled cabbage and calcified minds.
These are paintings sensitive to Venice's moody beauty, which is all the more overpowering because of its imperfections.
Using them they can then refine their model to compensate for gossip's imperfections.
Righting them will require wholesale reform both of financial regulation and of the entire global monetary system.As befits a man who won the Nobel prize for his work on asymmetric information, Mr Stiglitz dwells on the market imperfections and misaligned incentives that distorted decisions made by everyone from mortgage originators to credit-rating agencies.
It is impressive because of imperfections, not despite them.
Their failure is blamed on the imperfections of democracy: the Curitiban reforms were pushed through with military backing during a dictatorship that ended in 1985, since when other cities' efforts have been stymied by the lobbying of the affected bus companies.
Detailed planning necessarily failed, due to the inevitable frictions encountered: chance events, imperfections in execution, and the independent will of the opposition.
