Sentence examples for deficit of character from inspiring English sources

Bush's failure to learn much of anything for the past six years suggests a deficit of character, not of experience; his unwillingness to employ his father's skills and advice on behalf of the nation shows a disrespectful disregard for a dynast's biggest advantage.

"Sadly, we may be heading back to the days when our differences are seen through the lens of character deficits rather than in the context of brain wiring".

The capital inflows exacerbated the real appreciation of the exchange rates and the loss of export competitiveness, resulting in large, and out-of-character, current-account deficits in Thailand and Malaysia.

The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competence.

"I'm really proud of myself with how I showed a lot of character early on with coming back from deficits," McIlroy said.

"The source of the sudden optimism was the erasing of a 6-1 definithen the opening game of the Freeway Series at Dodger Stadium, something completely out of character for the last-place Dodgers.

In other words, that a good deal of what we see and ascribe to a deficit in character or intelligence — criminal behavior, family breakdown, occupational failure — maybe just be the residual effects of on-field impacts.

So bizarrely out of character.

Something very out of character.

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