Sentence examples for real shortcomings from inspiring English sources

It is when gauging Britain's efforts against Germany or France that the real shortcomings are exposed.

Inspections have real shortcomings, but they can keep Saddam from acquiring nuclear weapons.

As Alex discussed, there are very real shortcomings to animal models of human disease– they can be expensive, slow and worst of all, inaccurate.

As I argue in my new book, The People vs. Democracy, we will only be able to contain the rise of populism if we ensure that the political system overcomes the very real shortcomings that have fuelled it.

Venter's novel, however, is working in a palpably different tradition, one in which those speculative energies are not global or even continental, but specific to South Africa, the dystopian nightmare framed as an effect of that country's historical traumas and the real shortcomings of its democratic present.

He was diplomatic about some of the criticism Siri has received, while also acknowledging the service has some real shortcomings.

It's a real shortcoming in the computer science curriculum and engineering curriculum more generally.

But its real shortcoming is the pasta itself, which is doughy rather than silken.

There is a simple lesson here: whatever the imperfections of WikiLeaks as a startup, its emergence points to a real shortcoming within our intelligence community.

What they didn't say: The only real shortcoming of the handsome Toyota Venza crossover is that it doesn't hold a whole lot.

Its real shortcoming -- as much a limitation as a flaw -- is that it does a great many things without any particular distinction.