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the insufficiencies
noun
The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
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The crisis has starkly revealed the insufficiencies of existing banking supervision.
"The lies in novels are not gratuitous — they fill in the insufficiencies of life," he wrote.
In order to overcome the insufficiencies of single-wire transmission, the early telephone industry shifted to a two-wire system called the open-wire pair.
Today, two years from the attack, he is free to walk into any stadium and watch any game, all because of the insufficiencies of Law 6,222, that deals with prevention of violence in sport in Turkey.
On the street, he had an unerring eye for isolation in a crowd, and he could turn the insufficiencies of camera vision, the blurs of light seen too fast, the impressionist haze of imperfectly focused backgrounds, into acceptable shorthand for sight.
The difference between neurotics and normal people is a matter only of degree, Freud says in the last Clark lecture: We all "entertain a life of fantasy in which we like to make up for the insufficiencies of reality by the production of wish fulfillments".
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In the packed courtroom, the insufficiency of his answer hung in the air like a gasp.
The candidates' education, or the insufficiency thereof, came up again during the most recent Presidential election.
And yet Milosz was always impatient with "the insufficiency of lyric", as the poet Donald Davie expressed it, and indeed the insufficiency of all art, deeply conscious of the unattainability of the reality that surrounds us.
What does the prophet do, after all, but bemoan the insufficiency of words to express his idea of the divine?
For the most part, this piece simply rehearses familiar arguments about the insufficiency and dangers of the Obama Administration's current approach.
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