The phrase "point out shortcomings" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of identifying weaknesses or mistakes. For example, "The supervisor pointed out shortcomings in the report and asked the team to edit it and resubmit it."
Clinton is an outsider to the Republican Party (obviously), and it's never pleasant to have an outsider point out shortcomings of an insular group.
But foreign policy experts were quick to point out shortcomings in both economic sanctions and a no-fly zone.
(From the EnCoRe proposal, it is unclear whether an initial broad consent with downstream opt-out solutions is a viable option; however, they clearly point out shortcomings in a broad consent model.
Discretionary Revisions Page 1, paragraph 2: It seems odd to point out shortcomings for specific subsets of these model organisms that apply to all or most of them just as well.
While it is rather simple to point out shortcomings in other belief/knowledge systems, asking the opposing party to "challenge your beliefs with facts; neither quotes of scientists nor Bible passages admitted" can often lead to either party giving up entirely.
The report points out shortcomings in TSCA and its implementation, and suggests ways to strengthen the law.
Limiting our analysis to the 35 most challenging families decreases this percentage even more (Fig. S1 of Supporting Information), reflecting our initial aim to select families that hamper accurate orthology prediction; we aimed at a benchmark set that points out shortcomings of each method and leads to its improvement.
The last inspection report, from September 2005, pointed out shortcomings, mostly of the minor variety, and so gave it an overall rating that is above average.
The report also points out shortcomings in the bank's methodology for assessing the values of its holdings, but that does not change the fact that JPMorgan's own evaluation found the pricing was proper.
Mr. Saakashvili's billionaire challenger, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has injected this process with steroids, reminding Georgians of the country's high unemployment and pointing out shortcomings in the president's showcase reforms.
Bill de Blasio has the enviable job of spending the next four years doing nothing but pointing out shortcomings in the current administration and positioning himself to run as Bloomberg's successor in 2013.
