Sentence examples for admitting the limits from inspiring English sources

It's partly about admitting the limits of one's ambition; but it's more about one's attitude to failure.

And Iraqi leaders admit the limits of their influence.

Even Sir Michael Barber, once head of Mr Blair's delivery unit, admits the limits of central direction.

His point is directed at what he sees as a culture of excessive self-regard among artists who should know enough to admit the limits of what they do.

It was used to bring him closer to his audience, to admit the limits of his powers of expression (you know what I mean) and appeal for understanding of his plight (you know how it is).This is also how other Blairites use the words.

This is where Leibowitz admits the limits of rationalism when it is understood as the metaphysical thesis that the world is intelligible "all the way down".

So, while politicians might be tempted to make like King Canute and admit the limits of their powers, the pressures of modern politics means they cannot, certainly not this close to a general election.

As the volunteers talked, a panel of psychologists judged their reasoning and weakness to bias: whether it was a rounded argument, whether the candidates were ready to admit the limits of their knowledge – their "intellectual humility" – and whether they were ignoring important details that didn't fit their theory.

But this does seem to objectify the dislikeable and to blame the patient, so the alternative view has been that these characteristics are actually features of the neurologist: patients with conversion put the neurologist in the unwelcome position of having to admit the limits of their competence, which the neurologist projects onto their hapless patient as dislike.

Reversing its earlier rhetoric of supporting the "traditional role of the family", the Angel Plan openly admitted the limit of the family's capacity to provide care, and the importance of supporting the family by reducing its care burden (MOHLW, 1997).

Back in Nova Scotia with the survivors, she gradually takes a larger view of the events, admitting to the limits of the miners' code and the fragility of their brotherhood.