Sentence examples for common failings from inspiring English sources

And these were also incredibly common failings during the housing bubble.

Their model tries to avoid some of the common failings of CGE.

Swordfish, the "market fish" that evening, was mushy, dry and bland -- regrettably common failings of this fish, which, I'm coming to think, deserves a vacation from restaurant menus.

The main advantage of using technology to teach is that it reduces the impact of two common failings in many ordinary schools in Africa: teacher absenteeism and minimal adherence to the curriculum.

Writing sentences with different verb tenses, or no verb at all, using nouns and verbs which don't agree, leaving out apostrophes, or putting them in when they are not needed, punctuating quotes incorrectly, forgetting commas or using too many: all of these are common failings in people's writing.

Even some supporters of the system feel the recurrence of common failings is a "worrying" factor.

(Social drinking a common failing of waxwings).

How nobly free you seem to be of this common failing of mankind".

The most common failing cited by investors is a breach of fiduciary duty by their brokers.

Their principal and common failing is a refusal to recognise reality.

Hence, in this paper, we propose a two-level scheduling method (TSM) to overcome this common failing.