Sentence examples for these foibles from inspiring English sources
"These foibles used to be faintly amusing, but now they're becoming threatening," he said.
The authors warn that the crash will happen again unless governments find ways of compensating for these foibles through policy.This is not the only (and certainly not the most famous) book in recent years to wield the findings of behavioural economics, neuroscience and other embryonic disciplines to kill off homo economicus.
One victim of these foibles may have been the woman from Bedford-Stuyvesant — which faces the notoriously unreliable eastern clock — who called up the building managers sometime in the 1980s to complain that she had lost her job because she had relied on the bank time.
But their transgressions are so very minor when held up to the rest of what happened in the past week that we just don't think it would be proper to point these foibles out this particular week.
Do these staff foibles tell us about the kind of president Senators Clinton or Obama would be?
Again, you can adjust to these character foibles, and this is still a fun, agile and stable sedan in most circumstances.
It's not something that people talk about, but what makes all of us interesting are these little foibles that we have; things that make us have our home a certain way, or eat a certain way, or arrange things on our bedside table a certain way".
The humor comes mainly from the foibles of these men.
Besides, the most memorable jabs at our political leaders and national foibles these days come from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who are not known to play around with ink and artists' brushes.
PolitiFact, an outfit that assesses the accuracy of controversial statements made by politicians, has awarded Mrs Bachmann 11 "false" ratings and seven "pants on fire" to just one "true".Voters who admire Mrs Bachmann's fierce conservatism will doubtless look past these slips and foibles.
Fleming called these devices "vulgar foibles" which he was saddled with, although maybe, he suggested, "Bond's luxury meals are simply saying "no" to toad-in-the-hole and tele-bickies".
