Sentence examples for shortcomings first from inspiring English sources

It has two shortcomings: first, it is extremely insensitive in the cast form, and second, it is difficult to cast without air holes.

This has two shortcomings; first, the use of modification indices is essentially a data-driven approach, which calls for a cross-validation study.

Although Wundt sees some value in this retrospective method, he thinks it has two crucial shortcomings: First, one can only work with what one remembers of the process in question the manipulation of a memory-image cannot discover new elements.

Therefore, in this article, in order to overcome these shortcomings, first, the basic AF protocol [15] is considered when external out-of-cell structural/unmanaged interference affects the cooperation process.

Such measures, however, suffer from at least two severe shortcomings: First, although these proxies may be informative on the average intensity of product market competition within a product market, they do not provide information on changes in competitive pressure at the level of the individual firm where decision-making takes place.

Eventually the U.N. Office of the Special Envoy published lessonsfromhaiti.org - admitting three systemic shortcomings: first is that the model for humanitarian aid had rural settings in mind; second, a lack of coordination hampered efforts, linked to a weak state.

In this paper we outline two techniques for ameliorating this shortcoming, first by employing a Legendre Spectral Element Method to implement efficient, graded meshes, and second by utilizing an Artificial Boundary with a Transparent Boundary Condition placed quite close to the boundary of the domain.

But the book exhibits shortcomings, the first being lack of structure.

Nearly 30 years after "Geronimo Rex" and 10 years since Hannah's previous novel, "Yonder Stands Your Orphan" is characterized by many of the same strengths and shortcomings Updike first identified.

For the rest of us, they're difficult to hear, but it's hard to envision how we'll move past our shortcomings without first acknowledging them.

Despite obvious shortcomings the second option is less odious than the first.