Sentence examples for certain failings from inspiring English sources

"There are certain failings.

All of these discs have certain failings in common.

We may distinguish general arguments, designed to show that all miracle claims are subject in principle to certain failings, from particular arguments, designed to show that, whatever may be the case in principle, such miracle claims as have historically been offered are inadequately supported.

But if they were to do that certain failings wouldn't be so easy to spin.

Murray Cammick says it wasn't until art school, when he discovered certain failings in himself, that he started taking photography seriously.

Some economists, including Nouriel Roubini of New York University and The Times's own Paul Krugman, declared that we should guarantee the liabilities of the banking industry and support a temporary government takeover of certain failing institutions.

"You can read Mailer or Hemingway and see — or at least I do — that what separated them from greater writers (like Chekhov, say) was a certain failing of kindness or compassion or gentleness — an interest in the little guy, i.e., the nonglamorous little guy, a willingness and ability to look at all of their characters with love," the writer George Saunders told me via e-mail.

The critic cites a certain failing of relevance in reference to the JODI piece.

Directly targeting certain failing protein complexes or downstream deleterious effects results in replicative lifespan extension, but we suggest that many of these effects will prove to be cell type- and growth condition-specific.

In fact, it has become received wisdom that an increase in portion size has played a part in the raised incidence of obesity, yet the topic is not straightforward and the resulting advice has often been too certain; failing to reflect the existing state of knowledge and the complexity of the situation.

There is also the matter of certain directional failings which means we spend more time looking for balls than them.