Sentence examples for hide shortcomings from inspiring English sources

However, Somers argues that while there are more audits, most are announced in advance, giving managers time to prepare and hide shortcomings.

The Red Sox do not try to hide their shortcomings, as some teams might.

Neither palm trees nor a Lakers uniform has been able to hide the shortcomings Brown had before being acquired from Washington in a trade.

Gov. James E. McGreevey, criticizing New Jersey Republicans' handling of budget numbers, used a new term: "Enronize," meaning "to hide fiscal shortcomings through slick financial legerdemain and bald-faced lies".

But self-flagellation amid evidence of Labour failure on almost every side is bewildering to those voters seeking an alternative to an unprincipled government that tries to hide its shortcomings behind a smokescreen of spin.

In a statement, Andrew Cuomo -- a former United States housing secretary and the former governor's son -- called Mr. Pataki's letter "nothing but old-style scare politics designed to hide his shortcomings".

In announcing Shinseki's resignation, Obama went out of his way to describe the former Army general as a person of integrity who presided over a bureaucracy that was overwhelmed by two long wars and an aging veteran population, and which ultimately succumbed to widespread cheating to hide its shortcomings.

"Let's not try to hide our shortcomings," says Vakoch.

Fogging effects are used to hide background shortcomings such as where the sky and ground meet.

The background of the set was simply a painted piece of canvas; Nimoy had the background out of focus in all the shots as a way to hide the shortcomings of the scenery.

The City University project is not presenting workers in a romanticized light or hiding the shortcomings of labor unions, said Josh Brown, art director of the project.