Sentence examples for shortcomings a from inspiring English sources

In Britain, for the moment, you are saved from it: you have, whatever its shortcomings, a literate press.

Others point to American military shortcomings: a coup leader in Mali was trained by American soldiers.On the whole though, the Obama team has handled Africa judiciously.

Salaries have yet to be paid.But even sceptics call such shortcomings "a tax" that must be paid for the transition from decades of erratic dictatorship.

THAT afternoon and evening, I decided to address Madeira's two touristic shortcomings: a dearth of cultural treasures, and no natural beaches.

Among those shortcomings, a caseworker and a supervisor in the agency's Brooklyn field office appear to have gone months without visiting the girl or her family, despite indications that she was at risk, the agency said in its report.

If we are to avoid paying a high economic, strategic, and environmental price for its shortcomings, a better system of developing and enforcing internationally agreed energy rules is essential.

Seen in what was claimed to be its first professional New York production, mounted by the Bronx Opera Company in the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College on Saturday night, the work readily showed its intrinsic shortcomings: a plot too whimsical for modern tastes, a wayward libretto, a girth too protracted for the frivolity of its material.

The unfazed Niven's reaction entered Oscars folklore: "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?" A sad coda to the story came when Opel, an artist and gay rights activist, was murdered in his San Francisco gallery five years later.

The alliances offset one of Haier's shortcomings, a lack of homegrown R&D.

To avoid these shortcomings, a waiting-based packing strategy is introduced and analyzed in this section.

To address these shortcomings, a taxonomy for OSN data types was developed in this paper.