By contrast, Mr Koizumi, though plain-spoken by the standards of Japanese politics, is not the sort of leader to win public debates on a global stage.That shortcoming might not matter much, however, in a region where governments are inclined to fudge their public statements and let bureaucrats work things out behind the scenes.
It would direct a lot of fiscal firepower at indebted homeowners, but would benefit other taxpayers only indirectly a shortcoming it shares with Mr Feldstein's scheme.Allied to that objection is a bigger one: attempting to put a floor under house prices (or any asset prices) is hugely distortionary.
Obviously, she needs allies, but a disdain for deal-making that borders on arrogance has so far prevented her from getting them.That is not her only shortcoming.
He struggles to inspire voters a shortcoming that became especially evident in the run-up to the European elections in May and Scotland's referendum on independence in September.
That Hiroshi Araki, TEPCO's chairman, heads the committee on corporate behaviour at Japan's biggest business federation neatly illustrates this shortcoming.
With luck, the real word may fall into disuse and the humble outsider will feel intimidated by the floppy, opaque language that masks wrongdoing or shortcoming.
Few of the officers have proper training in crowd control a shortcoming that contributed to the killing five years ago.
The disproportionate power of the executive to stifle debate is a widely recognised shortcoming of the Dáil, most starkly illustrated by Kenny's recent refusal to permit a free vote among his party colleagues on the contentious matter of abortion.
There's one shortcoming of the union movement: not enough people have a job where they can join a union.
"That really does feel to me like a shortcoming: we haven't built a product that's easy enough for unmotivated users.
Trying to make her incrementalism into a shortcoming, Mr Steinbrück suggested that Mrs Merkel lacked "feeling" for the European project because she spent the first 36 years of her life in East Germany, outside the European Communities from which the EU grew.
