Sentence examples for Shortcomings from inspiring English sources

The word 'Shortcomings' is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to weaknesses, failures, or imperfections in someone or something. Example: Despite its numerous strengths, the company's financial shortcomings led to its downfall.

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Shortcomings

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Plural of shortcoming

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It is not a long contract, just six weeks, and I imagined I, too, might be able to serve out my time in office before anyone noticed my shortcomings, and my failure to harbour any cohesive hermetic vision.

Any disparity is due not to their shortcomings in labor markets but rather to their lack of a high initial endowment.

To be fair, it has shortcomings, though they're not to do with history.

What's more, I'd argue that plenty of younger Guardian writers take a left slant on all sorts of things – including the shortcomings of the Labour party and the excess pay and bonuses enjoyed by top corporate executives (now there's a bit of subtle).

As Prem Sikka, professor of accounting at the University of Essex, argues: "If some used car dealer was engaged in a fraction of the shortcomings, warnings and scams that big accountancy firms have been involved in, he would be put out of business".

For their part, accountants are often aware of their industry's shortcomings.

Otter and his team put forward 49 recommendations to improve the "policies, systems, training and leadership of undercover operations which if implemented should address the unacceptable inconsistencies and shortcomings that we have found".

I'd never told anyone about my sexual shortcomings, not girlfriends of course, not my brother.

The program was mothballed in March of last year, based on BJS's own judgment of its shortcomings, but it may be resurrected with the renewal by Congress last December of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act of 2000, designed primarily to count deaths in prisons and jails.

But the OSCE observer report on the election catalogued many "legal and organisational shortcomings," noting that slavish media coverage gave Karimov a "clear advantage" and that "proxy voting on behalf of several voters appeared to be universally practised".

The defending champion's failure to find rhythm and fluency on his legendary forehand, the cornerstone of his game, was as much down to Murray's guile as his own shortcomings – plentiful though these were – and it was a striking feature of the match that most of Nadal's best moments came when he advanced into the forecourt.

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