Sentence examples for flawed worth from inspiring English sources

As David Wasserman notes, if the child's life is itself, though flawed, worth living and if that flaw is unavoidable if that particular child is ever to exist at all, it may seem that any difficulty the child then faces is a "perfectly acceptable price to pay for a life he [or she] could not have without it" (Wasserman 2006, 145).

(2) The second intuition is that an act that confers on a person an existence that is, though flawed, worth having in a case in which that same person could never have existed at all in the absence of that act does not make things worse for, or harm, and is not "bad for," that person.

Pelosi persisted, reminding members of her caucus that Democrats had been fighting for universal coverage for decades ― and that even a flawed bill was worth passing, especially because it would be possible to amend and improve the law later on, just like previous generations of lawmakers had done with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

It is Joe's story that lies at the heart of this book, and Joe's story that makes this flawed but powerful novel worth reading.

With some distance from the initial raw reaction, it's a good time to evaluate why Facebook's Free Basics strategy for India was fundamentally flawed, and probably not worth the fight in the first place.

All of his films certainly have problems (racial and class stereotypes, the need to swing for the fences in his comic work, making light of genuinely unpleasant behavior, etc), but he is growing as a filmmaker and his flawed stories are almost always ones worth telling and worth watching, especially as so few mainstream filmmakers are making old-fashioned melodramas.

It's ironic that one of rock's iconic unions is essentially flawed … It's fascinating – worth a whole book.

We are breaking our kids' spirits, stifling their love of learning, and crippling their confidence when we send this flawed message that their future worth hinges on standardized exams which are devised, of course, by one of a small handful of testing companies profiting on the backs of a deteriorating public school system.

Yet even in its current, deeply flawed format, PMQs is an institution worth preserving.

If we had evidence that more students with high school diplomas could actually do college level work without remediation, the champions of NCLB might claim that, though flawed and clumsy, the legislation was worth it in the end.

That said, however young, flawed and imperfect, Erik is a voice worth hearing.