The prosecutors conceded that the defense lawyers' performances in the two cases fell short of the minimum requirements of professional and ethical conduct.
While the government rounded up Arabs and Muslims with no ties to terrorism and authorized torture and disappearances, several of its highest-profile cases fell short, and it failed to carry out the more mundane work that might actually make us safer.
Mr. Kendall has memorably described the vulgarity and the spectacle: "Analogies have been proposed with cinema in the golden age of Hollywood or television in our own time, but both cases fall short of the mark, missing the extraordinary fusion of the highest artistic standards with the most blatant and officially sanctioned vice".
Thus, although their use of these imperfectly learned hazard rates was consistent with the normative model, their overall decisions in some cases fell short of the ideal observer.
However, most cases fell short of clinical concern: in the XYY group, six of 16 males met research diagnostic criteria for antisocial behaviour disorder, compared with six of 45 unaffected males (a non-significant difference).
However, it should also be mentioned here that, although it is scientifically proven that aphasia therapy is to the benefit of the patient, especially if applied in high quantity and with high frequency, the practical implementation, in many cases, falls short of the desiderata and requirements (Katz et al., 2000).
"I think everyone would recognise that this case fell short of that standard," he said.
A. -- American officials have said that they have strong circumstantial evidence of Mr. bin Laden's complicity in the attacks but they acknowledge that their case falls short of what would be needed to prove a criminal case.
Paula Donovan, co-director of the campaign group Code Blue, said that the UN's handling of the case fell short of its claim to have "zero tolerance" for sexual exploitation and abuse.
Dispiriting though it is to rip up the Department for Transport's economics homework and tell it to do it yet again, even the fifth attempt at the strategic case fell short.
