Sentence examples for shortcomings just from inspiring English sources

BAGHDAD — The civil war in Syria is testing Iraq's fragile society and fledgling democracy, worsening sectarian tensions, pushing Iraq closer to Iran and highlighting security shortcomings just nine months after American forces ended their long and costly occupation here.

"And I can't do everything and anything perfectly all of the time, and I have my own shortcomings, just like everyone else, and I can't control everything and make everything perfect for everyone all the time".

It turns rather on a simple point: that psychological shortcomings, just as much as external impediments, may undermine abilities.

But it's worth asking if the TSA, in its haste to make air travelers forget about its technological shortcomings, just made flying a little more dangerous.

We could acknowledge not just our shortcomings, but our organization's collective wisdom.

It's a cuisine that's on the bad end of decades of economic hardship but to excuse its shortcomings as just a matter of personal preference is silly.

Maybe Maps' shortcomings are just too egregious this time.

And yet—in testimony perhaps to Britain's robustness, perhaps to its democratic shortcomings, maybe just to short attention spans it already feels like a forgotten war.

With plenty of explosions and gunfights, it's fast-paced enough to gloss over the plot's almost inevitable shortcomings, while just engaging enough to avoid charges of vacuity.

The Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives "generally has strong physical controls". But a report by an internal watchdog also found record-keeping deficiencies, storage shortcomings and just plain sloppiness with guns.

Q: Are all the shortcomings you just described controllable by the judge?